Mind the Gap: Built Infrastructures, Sustainable Caring Relations, and Resilient Communities in Extreme Weather Events
Mind the Gap: Built Infrastructures, Sustainable Caring Relations, and Resilient Communities in Extreme Weather Events
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注意差距：极端天气事件中的基础设施建设、可持续的关怀关系和具有复原力的社区
DOI：
10.1080/0312407x.2012.708764
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Dominelli L
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作者：
Dominelli L
关于气候变化的辩论很少将来自自然科学的见解与社会科学家的担忧联系起来。其中一个例子是了解建筑基础设施的故障如何增加了妇女的照顾负担。本文利用一项关于气候变化和老年人的试点研究来证明，当服务社区的基础设施出现故障时，需要提供非正式护理服务的妇女来填补正式护理提供水平下降与护理需求之间的差距。这项研究促使政策制定者、应急计划者和从业者思考，在涉及热浪、寒流和洪水等极端天气事件的灾害中，女性预期要承担的护理负担日益增加，并重新考虑在没有必要的支持服务和已建成的基础设施到位的情况下，将这一责任转嫁给社区的政策。在公共支出削减开始产生影响的紧缩时期，公共资助的医疗水平不断下降，在这种背景下，这一问题变得更加紧迫。
Climate change debates seldom link the insights derived from the physical sciences to the concerns of social scientists. Understanding how failures in built infrastructures increase the caring burden on women is one of these instances. This article draws on a pilot study on climate change and older people to demonstrate that women who provide informal care services are called upon to fill the gap between declining levels of formal care provisions and care needs when the infrastructures serving a community fail. This research challenges policymakers, emergency planners, and practitioners to think about the increased care burdens that women are expected to undertake during disasters involving extreme weather events like heat waves, cold snaps, and flooding, and reconsider policies that pass this responsibility down to the level of community without the necessary support services and built infrastructures being in place. This issue acquires additional urgency in the context of declining levels of care being publicly funded through the age of austerity as public expenditure cuts begin to bite.