“Selling the Dead”: More dignified options needed to assist widows in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan

Typhoon Haiyan survivors at the resettlement sites: Covid-19 pandemic realities and challenges

“…Tacloban, a highly urbanized city in the northern tip of Leyte, is the capital of the Eastern Visayas region. Tacloban and the adjoining municipalities and provinces suffered significant casualties and massive displacements from the onslaught of typhoon Haiyan in 2013 [ 16 , 44 ]. Following the Haiyan disaster, the Tacloban city government allocated around 80 ha of land in the northern district (henceforth, Tacloban North), about 40 km from the city center, as ‘safe areas’ to build new settlements, where survivors who used to live in coastal zones (now declared ‘no-build’ areas) could relocate.…”

“…The extant literature reveals that typhoon Haiyan and its impacts in Tacloban City are well-studied (e.g., [ 4 , 5 , 11 , 12 , 14 , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , 28 , 29 , 34 , 35 , 37 , 41 , [43] , [44] , [45] , [46] , 49 , 52 ]). There are also studies published about the impacts of the pandemic on frontline healthcare workers [ 18 ], higher education institutions [ 10 , 31 ], students' psychological health [ 47 ], and Indigenous Peoples [ 15 ] in the Philippines which exposed the local and national government's dismal investments in public health.…”

Technical experts’ perspectives of justice-related norms: Lessons from everyday environmental practices in Indonesia

“…Gender studies have portraited misrepresentation of top-down management tools enshrined in patriarchal institutions and the socio-environmental struggles asserted by women in land practices (e.g., Deere and Leal 2001;Nussbaum 2000). Other studies expand the knowledge sphere of justice-related norms, illustrating the importance of meeting societal standards on dignity (Su and Mangada 2020), sense of belongings (Eckenwiler 2018), and community benefits (Cowell, Bristow, and Munday 2011) on improving social acceptability of environmental management strategies in specific cultural structures. These insights show that social expectations of justice are unique to local contexts, but they are not solely locallyconstituted.…”