Dr. Yvonne Su

What does Typhoon Haiyan show us about disaster displacement?

In this case study, Dr. Yvonne Su describes the situation in and around Tacloban City, Philippines, after the devastating disaster known as Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. She dissects the government and international community’s response to the crisis and the nature of the displacement faced by Tacloban residents. 

 

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• Disasters and displacement
• Climate change and displacement
• Changes in natural disasters
• Sustainability in dealing with the consequences of natural disasters
• Community resilience
• Responsibility regarding natural disasters

In this clip

• Pauline Eadie, Yvonne Su, ‘Post-disaster social capital: trust, equity, bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda’, Disaster Prevention and Management (2018).
• Yvonne Su and Ladylyn Lim Mangada, ‘Bayanihan after Typhoon Haiyan: are we romanticising an indigenious coping strategy?’, Humanitarian Practice Network (2016).
• Yvonne Su, Maria Tanyag, ‘Globalising myths of survival: post-disaster households after Typhoon Haiyan’, Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (2019).