Women, Vulnerability, Resilience and Natural Disasters: Interview with Marta de Araujo Pinheiro
Abstract
In a forthcoming paper entitled “Mulheres em reconstruçāo nas situaçōes pós-desastre: relato sobre as chuvas de 2011 em Teresópolis” (Women Reconstructing in Post-Disaster Situations: The 2011 Rains in Teresópolis, Brazil) Marta de Araujo Pinheiro, a visiting fellow at CERI from UFRJ (Brazil), is interested in the situation of women in the face of natural disasters, their vulnerability, and their capacity for resilience and reconstruction, based on the case of the city of Teresópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where the terrible landslides of 2011 caused a great deal of damage. Interview by Miriam Perier, CERI.