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Joni Seager is a professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the Hunter College in New York City. She is a highly accomplished researcher and writer with strong leadership and team building skills with expertise in both gender and the environment as well as indicators and mapping. She has published well known and respected atlases entitled The State of Women in the World Atlas and the State of the Earth Atlas. In 2004 Dr. Seager and Dr. Hartmann (former SSC member) completed a study for the Division of Early Warning and Assessment on mainstreaming gender into its institutional and conceptual framework.

Recent Publications

Seager, J. (2006). “Noticing gender (or not) in disasters.” Geoforum 37(1): 2-3.