Stories of loss and healing: connecting non-economic loss and damage, gender-based violence and wellbeing erosion in the Asia-Pacific region

被引:8
作者
Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Chandra, Alvin [4 ,5 ]
Mcnamara, Karen E. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Coll London UCL, Inst Risk & Disaster Reduct IRDR, Everyday Disasters & Violences Res Grp EDV RG, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] Univ Sussex, Brighton, England
[3] United Nations Univ Inst Environm & Human Secur UN, Bonn, Germany
[4] Univ Queensland, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Brisbane, Australia
[5] United Nations Environm Programme, Ecosyst Div, Nairobi, Kenya
关键词
Child abuse; Climate change; Coercive control; Disasters; Mental health; Non-economic loss and damage; Storytelling methodology; VAWC; CLIMATE-CHANGE; MENTAL-HEALTH; HURRICANE-KATRINA; NATURAL DISASTERS; URBAN SLUM; WOMEN; VULNERABILITY; MIGRATION; DHAKA; ADAPTATION;
D O I
10.1007/s10584-023-03624-y
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
It is well-known that women, children, and other intersectional and marginalised social groups are disproportionately impacted by 'non-economic wellbeing loss' in the context of climatic changes. However, few empirical studies investigate its interrelation with violence against women and children (VAWC). We urgently need to widen our perceptions of what falls under the umbrella term 'Non-Economic Loss (and Damage)', NEL(D)s, for societies to appropriately be able to avert, minimise, and address losses and damages among vulnerable people. Through stories of loss and healing, we step into the realities of illustrating how women and children experience non-economic wellbeing loss within a climate-violence nexus in Bangladesh, Fiji, and Vanuatu. A storytelling and systems analysis approach guided the analysis of personal narratives gathered through a secondary data review and empirical field work. The research findings identified different pathways through which women and children's mental health was compromised in the context of structural violence and climatic risks. In Bangladesh, the narratives described wellbeing erosion in the context of gendered (im)mobility; in Fiji, the findings captured women's and children's experiences of sexual violence, domestic abuse, exploitation, and trafficking in the context of natural hazards, while in Vanuatu, hardship, gendered dependence, and healing were narrated by women in their stories surrounding disaster recovery. This article comprehensively lays out the longer-term societal wellbeing consequences of climatic changes and gender-based violence. It also identifies research gaps in need of further attention and proposes policy recommendations as well as methodological and disaster health service solutions to address wellbeing loss in a climate changed future.
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