Department of Applied Disaster and
Emergency Studies
Brandon University
Brodie Science Centre Room G38
270-18th Street
Brandon, Manitoba
R7A 6A9

Phone: (204) 571-8575
Fax: (204) 571-8588
enarsone@brandonu.ca

Elaine first came to disaster work through personal experience in hurricane Andrew and has since written widely on social vulnerability, disaster resilience and gender relations in disaster contexts. Her research projects have investigated hurricanes (Miami), floods (Red River), earthquakes (Gujarat, India), hurricanes (New Orleans), women’s paid and unpaid work, violence against women in disasters, and the vulnerability of low-income women in developing countries to hazards and disasters in the Caribbean. Elaine is a frequent speaker and consultant with a strong interest in participatory research to build community resilience to disaster. She plans to work in Canada on issues related to disaster resilience, rural community health, and gender equality in disaster risk reduction research, practice and policy.

• Introduction to Disaster Studies
• Hazard and Risk Assessment
• Risk Communication
• Sociology of Disaster
• Disaster and Development
• Gender and Disaster

• Social vulnerabilities and capacities in disasters
  
• Health, safety and resilience to disaster
  
• Gender equality and disaster risk management
  

• Principle Investigator, "Women In The Eye Of The Storm: Organizing For Change After Hurricane Katrina"
   
• Affiliate Researcher, "A Cohort Study of the Impact of Prion Disease on Farm Family Community Health," funded by PrioNet Canada, Networks of Excellence [NSERC and the Alberta Prion Research Institute]

• "Through women’s eyes: a gendered research agenda for disaster social science." Disasters 22 (2): 157-173, 1998.
   
• Women and housing issues in two US disasters. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 17 (1): 39-63, 1999.
   
• Violence against women in disasters: a study of domestic violence programs in the US and Canada. Violence Against Women 5 (7): 742-768, 1999.
   
• "‘We will make meaning out of this’: women’s cultural responses to the Red River Valley flood." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 18 (1): 39-62, 2000
   
• "What women do: gendered labor in the Red River Valley flood." Environmental Hazards 3/1: 1-18, 2001.
   
• "‘We want work;’ rural women in the Gujarat drought and earthquake." Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Report #135, 2001.
   

• "Social Vulnerability and Special Populations", book chapter forthcoming 2006 in K. Tierney and W. Waugh (eds.), Emergency Management: Principles and Practice for Local Government, 2nd edition.
   
• "Gender and Disaster: Foundations and Possibilities", with Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek, 2006 in Havidan Rodriguez, H.L. Quarantelli and R. Dynes (eds.), Handbook of Disaster Research. New York: Springer.
   
• "Gender Dimensions of Building Code Disparities in Natural Disasters: A United States Perspective", with Ross Corotis Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, forthcoming 2006 in International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management.
   
• Invitation to a new feminist disaster sociology: integrating feminist theory and methods, with Brenda Phillips. Forthcoming 2006 in Brenda Phillips and Betty Hearn Morrow (eds.), Women in Disaster.
   
• International Perspectives on Gender and Disaster: Differences and Possibilities, with Lourdes Meyreles. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 24 (10/11), 2004.
   
• Working With Women at Risk: Practical Guidelines for Assessing Local Disaster Risk, with Marta Gonzáles, Lourdes Meyreles, Betty Hearn Morrow, Audrey Mullings, and Judith Soares 2003. Available on-line in English and Spanish through the Gender and Disaster Sourcebook.
   
• "Lines that divide, ties that bind: race, class, and gender in women’s flood recovery in the US and UK." Australian Journal of Emergency Management, with Maureen Fordham, 15 (4): 43-53, 2001.
   
• From women’s needs to women’s rights in disasters, with Maureen Fordham. Environmental Hazards 3: 133-136, 2001.
   
• Gender patterns in a flood evacuation: a case study of couples in Canada’s Red River Valley, with Joe Scanlon, Applied Behavioral Science Review 7/2, 1999.
   
• The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women’s Eyes (Enarson and Morrow eds.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publications/Praeger, 1998.
   
• Women will rebuild Miami: a case study of feminist response to disaster, with Betty Hearn Morrow. Pp. 185-200 in Elaine Enarson and Betty Hearn Morrow (eds.), The Gendered Terrain of Disaster, 1998.
   
• A gendered perspective: the voices of women, with Betty Hearn Morrow. Pp. 116-140 in Walter Gillis Peacock, Betty Hearn Morrow, and Hugh Gladwin (eds.), Hurricane Andrew: Race, Gender and the Sociology of Disaster. London: Routledge, 1997.
   
 

• Co-founder, Gender and Disaster Network: http://gdnonline.org
   
• Gender and Disaster Sourcebook [website], lead developer and project manager of international team. On-line through GDN: http://www.gdnonline.org/sourcebook.htm
   
• Gender and disaster. Fact sheet prepared for the Sociologists for Women in Society, forthcoming 2006.
   
• Violence against women in disasters. Fact sheet maintained on the Gender and Disaster Network.
   
• Gender issues for emergency medical planners. British Columbia Medical Journal 39 (11): 586-588, 1997.
   
• Promoting social justice in disaster reconstruction: guidelines for gender-sensitive and community-based planning. Report from Gujarat, India, 2001. On-line through the Gender and Disaster Network.
   
• Gender equality, environmental management and natural disaster mitigation. Report from the on-line conference conducted by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (November, 2001). Available through the DAW: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/env_manage/documents.html.
  

• World Vision International, gender equality and disaster response [mainstreaming manual, spring 2004; tsunami impact and gender programming, fall 2005].
   
• UN Division for the Advancement of Women, consultant and manager of six-week on-line conference in support of the Expert Working Group on Gender Perspectives in Environmental Management and Mitigation of Natural Disasters [workshop in Ankara, Turkey], fall 2001.
   
• Health Canada’s Climate Change and Health Office and Institut national de santé publique du Québec [workshop on health impacts of climate change, Quebec City], August 2002.
   
• Gender issues in natural disasters: talking points and research needs. Paper prepared for the International Labour Organisation High-Level Research Consultation for the InFocus Programme on Crisis Response and Reconstruction [workshop in Geneva], May 2000.
   
• Emergency Preparedness in British Columbia: Mitigating Violence Against Women. Co-organizer and Conference session organizer, moderator and presenter in sociology of disaster and emergency management conferences sessions, 1992-present.
   

• Panelist, 46th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Environmental Management and Disaster Mitigation: Gender Perspectives, New York, March 2002
   
• Plenary speaker, Natural Hazards Workshop, University of Colorado, 2000 and 2001
   
• Plenary speaker, Emergency Preparedness Conference, Vancouver BC, 1999
   
• Nebraska Disaster Behavioral Health Conference, Omaha, July 2005
   
• Women’s Rights Law Review Symposium, Rutgers University, March 2006
   
• US National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Disasters, March 2006
   
• University of Nevada Reno, Academy for the Environment, Reno, April 2006
   
• Natural Hazards Management Conference, Christchurch, NZ, August 2006
   
• US Public Health Service, Office of Women’s Health conference, Reno, Aug. 2006
   
• Women and Disaster in Canada: What to Know and What to Do, International Centre for Emergency Management Studies, Cape Breton University, October 2006

• Battered Women’s Justice Project [disaster-related relocation issues], Nashville, April 2006
   
• University of Colorado at Denver Program on Domestic Violence, August 2006. Conference planner and convener.
   
• Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction, Honolulu 2004 [with Cheryl Anderson]
   
• Reaching Women and Children in Disasters, Miami 2000 [with Betty Hearn Morrow]
   
• Women in Disaster: Exploring the Issues, Vancouver, BC, 1998 [with the BC Justice Institute and BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs]
   
• Advisory committee, Gender and Disaster in Canada: What to Know and Do, forthcoming October 2006, Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS.

• The Women’s Resource Center of Brandon, Board of Directors member June 2006-present