Gender and climate change

Pearse, Rebecca

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“…Further, women have less access to critical information on cropping patterns and weather alerts [48]. As documented by several studies such vulnerabilities are not intrinsic to women as women but rooted in gendered divisions of land, labor, decision making power and other resources [49]. Due to the likely 'uneven impacts of climate change on women' [50] we need critical feminist studies that describe and explain such gender asymmetries [49] while keeping in mind that women obviously do not belong to a homogenous entity [51,52].…”

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“…Other relevant and valuable studies will be those on ethics and power [19], impacts and responses [49] and distribution and environmental justice [22]. In line with this, the IPCC 'Special Report on 1.5 Degrees' (2018, 2019) explicitly addresses the issue of reducing inequality (including gender inequality) in the context of climate change (www.ipcc.ch).…”

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

Sustainability

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Adaptation and mitigation are two key responses to climate change. In the global South they prompt many questions: what is the direction and degree of change needed? How can new climate change policies be aligned with existing development initiatives? How are core social relations such as gender understood and prioritized in relation to technical and other solutions? In search of synergies between adaptation, development and mitigation, this article asks a pertinent question for sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture in particular: what can adaptation and mitigation learn from development debates on social goal setting, institutional change and gender equality? From the perspective of sustainability science and feminist literature, three main findings emerge. First, as regards social goal setting, adaptation and mitigation should, like development, support the escape out of poverty, ill-health and food-insecurity. Second, as regards institutions, adaptation and mitigation should address how gender regulates access to, use of and control over resources in terms of labor, land and strategic decision-making power. Third, as regards gender equality, adaptation and mitigation should learn from how development in theory and practice has addressed gender, women, nature and the environment. At its core, the analysis contributes twelve salient themes that can significantly inform adaptation and mitigation in research, policy and practice, thus serving as inspiration for a critical debate on much needed synergetic trajectories.

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Section: Why Gender?mentioning

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

Sustainability

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“…Before displacement, life, liberty and security are at risk in the face of natural disasters. While climate change affects everyone, those who are already in a situation of vulnerability, because of factors such as age, gender and socio-economic status, will be disproportionately affected (OHCHR, 2008;Pearse, 2017). There is also a serious risk of human rights violations when displaced persons cannot return to their homes or become long-term homeless (Naser, 2013b).…”

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“…The longer displacement lasts, discrimination and violations of economic, social and cultural rights can become more entrenched because of loss of livelihood, education and shelter and limited access to health care and safe water. While climate change affects everyone, those who are already in a situation of vulnerability, because of factors such as age, gender and socio-economic status, will be disproportionately affected (OHCHR, 2008;Pearse, 2017).…”

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Climate change, migration and human rights in Bangladesh: Perspectives on governance

Naser

Swapan

Ahsan

et al. 2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Bangladesh experiences some of the most severe impacts of climate change, with impacts already evident in the coastal regions. Recent data shows that around 32% of the coastal communities in Bangladesh are affected by climate-induced hazards each year. In 2011, 64% among them were displaced locally and 27% were displaced to other locations in Bangladesh. It requires comprehensive and viable polices and planning to meet the challenges of managing a large number of displaced people. In this context, this paper reviews and investigates the effectiveness of current governance frameworks to address migration of affected communities. It argues that migration can be an effective way to cope with environmental shocks. Finally, it discusses policy imperatives for effective protection of people displaced by climate risks with a special reference to adopting a human rights-based approach in law and policy making for climate-induced migration.

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“…Numerous intersecting economic, cultural, and social factors shape the capacity of individuals to engage in sustainable natural resource-based livelihoods. Within the past two decades, as the empirical research has developed, it has become clear that gender is one of the most universal and important stratifying elements affecting natural resource use and vulnerability to the effects of climate change, as illustrated by numerous systematic literature reviews on the topic (Bunce and Ford 2015, Sellers 2016, Pearse 2017, Yadav and Lal 2018. Additionally, a variety of publications have drawn on this empirical literature to highlight specific gendered vulnerabilities associated with climate change and to suggest new pathways forward for further developing the evidence base (Carr and Thompson 2014, Bradshaw and Fordham 2015, Rao et al 2017, Jerneck 2018.…”

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How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?

Call

Sellers

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Background. Though many studies have long considered the broad social implications of climate change, researchers have only recently started to consider the gendered unevenness of the global landscape of vulnerability, exposure, and adaptive capacity to environmental stressors and shocks. Historically, policies and interventions addressing natural resource-based livelihoods have rarely considered underlying gender dynamics despite the global pervasiveness of gendered disparities in both economic opportunities and welfare outcomes. Methods/Design. Using two electronic databases, Web of Science and Scopus, we conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed academic literature describing livelihoods policies or interventions that included documentation of gendered impacts. We focused on natural resource-based livelihoods most likely to be affected by climate change, centering on interventions targeting agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, and forestry. Review Results/ Synthesis. We identified 131 relevant articles, most of which focus on adoption or participation in interventions rather than outcomes. In general, women are less likely than men to engage with sustainable livelihoods interventions. When women do engage, some researchers have documented income and food security gains as well as improvements in environmental indicators in the shortterm. However, these initiatives have also been found to increase women's labor burden without corresponding gains in income. Few studies measure longer-term effects of women's engagement on welfare and environmental outcomes, a key gap in the literature. Additionally, relatively few studies explore the intersectional impacts of initiatives, such as the added burdens of ethnicity, class, education, or other differences that modify gender disparities. Discussion. Climate change has gendered impacts on natural resource-based livelihoods. In general, existing initiatives designed to increase livelihood resilience fail to reduce gender disparities and improve women's livelihoods. Greater attention should be paid to gender when designing sustainable livelihoods policies and interventions in order to increase adoption and participation, negotiate trade-offs, improve environmental conditions, and promote broadly beneficial welfare outcomes.

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Gender and climate change

Cited by 125 publications

References 93 publications

What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Climate change, migration and human rights in Bangladesh: Perspectives on governance

How does gendered vulnerability shape the adoption and impact of sustainable livelihood interventions in an era of global climate change?

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