Climate change and gender equality in developing states

Eastin, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.02.021

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“…Specifically, this study sought to examine whether the predictive patterns put forward by the RANAS model [33] operate differently for males and females in the context of post-flood health behaviours such as groundwater testing. Previous research has reported that the female subpopulation will be more affected by climate change than their male counterparts, while conversely men typically pollute more than women [35,36]. Thus, a critical inequity exists, which to date, has not been examined or addressed among communities or regions reliant on private groundwater systems, primarily located in rural areas.…”

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Gender-Related Differences in Flood Risk Perception and Behaviours among Private Groundwater Users in the Republic of Ireland

McDowell

Andrade

O’Neill

et al. 2020

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Extreme weather events including flooding can have severe personal, infrastructural, and economic consequences, with recent evidence pointing to surface flooding as a pathway for the microbial contamination of private groundwater supplies. There is a pressing need for increasingly focused information and awareness campaigns to highlight the risks posed by extreme weather events and appropriate subsequent post-event actions. To date, little is known about the presence, directionality or magnitude of gender-related differences regarding flood risk awareness and behaviour among private groundwater users, a particularly susceptible sub-population due to an overarching paucity of infrastructural regulation across many regions. The current study investigated gender-related differences in flood risk perception and associated mitigation behaviours via a cross-sectional, national survey of 405 (168 female, 237 male) private groundwater supply users. The developed survey instrument assessed socio-demographic profile, previous flood experience, experiential and conjectural health behaviours (contingent on previous experience), and Risk, Attitude, Norms, Ability, Self-regulation (RANAS) framework questions. Statistically significant gender differences were found between both ‘Norm—Descriptive’ and ‘Ability—Self-efficacy’ RANAS elements (p < 0.05). Female respondents reported a lower level of awareness of the need for post-flood action(s) (8.9% vs. 16.5%), alongside a perceived “lack of information” as a reason for not testing their domestic well (4.9% vs. 11.5%). Conversely, male respondents were more likely to report awareness of their well location in relation to possible contamination sources (96.6% vs. 89.9%) and awareness of previous water testing results (98.9% vs. 93.0%). Gender-related gaps exist within the studied private groundwater reliant cohort, a sub-population which has to date remained under-studied within the context of climate change and extreme weather events. Accordingly, findings suggest that gender-focused communication and education may represent an effective tool for protecting current and future generations of global groundwater users.

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Gender-Related Differences in Flood Risk Perception and Behaviours among Private Groundwater Users in the Republic of Ireland

McDowell

Andrade

O’Neill

et al. 2020

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“…Climate change is not gender neutral [3] but actually exacerbates existing gender inequalities, thereby posing a worse impact on women [4]. There are various reasons for this, including gender imbalances in physical health and land ownership and women's lack of power in their families and communities [5,6]. There have been limited gender analyses of the roles of social capital and livelihood assets [7][8][9] in adapting to climate change.…”

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Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam

2019

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Climate change has exacerbated gender inequality, and women are a vulnerable group. Previous research attributed this to physical gender differences, gender differences in ownership and control of natural resources, and socioeconomic status. We used a survey of 99 participants, seven focus group discussions, and 13 in-depth interviews in a coastal community in Vietnam to gain insight into the roots of gender inequality in the capacity to adapt to climate change. We analysed the role of social capital in regulating and mobilising other livelihood assets from a gendered perspective and found that gender norms explain the division and interactions of men and women in formal and informal networks. Based on our results, we suggest that policy-makers should pay more attention to gender issues when proposing climate change policies and reducing the gender imbalance in the impact of climate change adaptation.

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“…The latter include so-called 'food poverty' (in which the poorest in wealthy countries have much more limited diets and access to food than the majority) (O'Connor et al, 2016), overconsumption leading to a huge increase in the proportion of the population suffering from obesity (Pearce & Whitten, 2016), and the need to plan for national food deficits in the face of climate change, economic shocks and other hazards (Clapp, 2017). Current threats to global food security have been described as "the perfect storm" by Sir John Beddington, former UK Government Chief crop yields in some countries (Tilman et al, 2017), the deleterious impacts of conflict and natural hazards (Blaikie et al, 2014), gender imbalances in access to resources (Eastin, 2018;Shortall, 2015), severe localized micronutrient deficiencies (Clark & Hobbs, 2015), and the potential for major negative consequences from climate change (Castree, 2015;Wiebe et al, 2015).…”

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New frontiers in agricultural geography: transformations, food security, land grabs and climate change

Robinson

2018

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Agriculture as a central focus of study featured prominently at several different times in the historical development of human geography, but it has also been an important contributor to the disciplinary transformation that has occurred since 1970. This essay outlines this more recent history, arguing that agricultural geography developed its own concepts and concerns, paralleling some of those within the wider discipline. It illustrates how in the past two decades attempts to examine changes occurring across the breadth of the agri-food system (from supply, to production, to consumption) have brought about a more issues-focused agricultural geography. There is discussion of the use of broad overarching concepts, which have conceived of changes to agriculture and the agri-food system in terms of episodic developments. This has seen recognition of different food regimes, acknowledging possible transitions from productivism to post-productivism to multifunctionality and perhaps neo-productivism. Having discussed these concepts, drawing extensively upon literature written in English, the essay then focuses on selected major problems or key issues to which agriciultural geographers are currently contributing new insights, namely the closely related topics of food security, land grabs and adaptations to climate change.

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Climate change and gender equality in developing states

Cited by 184 publications

References 41 publications

Gender-Related Differences in Flood Risk Perception and Behaviours among Private Groundwater Users in the Republic of Ireland

Gender-Related Differences in Flood Risk Perception and Behaviours among Private Groundwater Users in the Republic of Ireland

Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam

New frontiers in agricultural geography: transformations, food security, land grabs and climate change

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