Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change

Ravera, Federica; Iniesta-Arandia, Irene; Martín‐López, Berta; Pascual, Unai; Bose, Purabi

doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0842-1

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“…In addition, because vulnerable areas (Figure ) are highly populated (Figure I), their vulnerability will presumably become worse. This was previously reported (Liu et al ; Ravera et al ) that in most cases, high population density limits access to resources and their management. This density causes poverty, and people migrate in search of better livelihoods, then settle in risk prone areas and become vulnerable.…”

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Estimating landslides vulnerability in Rwanda using analytic hierarchy process and geographic information system

Nahayo

Ndayisaba

Karamage

et al. 2019

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Landslides are among hazards that undermine the social, economic, and environmental well‐being of the vulnerable community. Assessment of landslides vulnerability reveals the damages that could be recorded, estimates the severity of the impact, and increases the preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation as well. This study aims to estimate landslides vulnerability for the western province of Rwanda. Field survey and secondary data sources identified 96 landslides used to prepare a landslides inventory map. Ten factors—altitude, slope angles, normalized difference vegetation index (NVDI), land use, distance to roads, soil texture, rainfall, lithology, population density, and possession rate of communication tools—were analyzed. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) model was used to weight and rank the vulnerability conditioning factors. Then the Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) in geographic information system (GIS) spatially estimated landslides vulnerability over the study area. The results indicated the altitude (19.7%), slope angles (16.1%), soil texture (14.3%), lithology (13.5%), and rainfall (12.2%) as the major vulnerability conditioning parameters. The produced landslides vulnerability map is divided into 5 classes: very low, low, moderate, high and very high. The proposed method is validated by using the relative landslides density index (R‐index) method, which revealed that 35.4%, 25%, and 23.9% of past landslides are observed within moderate, high, and very high vulnerability zones, respectively. The consistency of validation indicates good performance of the methodology used and the vulnerability map prepared. The results can be used by policy makers to recognize hazard vulnerability lessening and future planning needs. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2019;00:000–000. © 2019 SETAC

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Estimating landslides vulnerability in Rwanda using analytic hierarchy process and geographic information system

Nahayo

Ndayisaba

Karamage

et al. 2019

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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“…To analyze the motivational mechanisms and the cognitive processes and perceptions that form the behavior of the different actors, it is necessary to understand alternative forms of thinking and action. Sound decision-making requests engagement with the diversity of voices and knowledge systems of the different stakeholders [22].…”

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“…Gender analysis in the field of SESs and CBNRM still remains understudied [22], even if in the last years different authors have significantly contributed to bridge this knowledge gap. Gender and socio-ecological resilience have been analyzed by several authors in developing and post-industrial settings [19,22,23]. Gendered opportunities for participation and social learning in collaborative forest governance were explored in Canada and Uganda [24].…”

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“…Different authors have highlighted the relevance of gender analysis of SES, SES resilience, and CBNRM and asked to enrich knowledge developing gendered research and generating gendered evidence base that inform policies for the sustainable management of natural resources [19,22,23,25,27]. Understanding the complexities of gender and across scales relations can help to better inform local and higher levels of policy making and secure the relevance of gender research to those primarily focused on understanding SES management [19].…”

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“…We only present evidences from a case study and do not aim to make generalizations but to contribute to the emerging literature on gender analysis of SES perceptions [22], examining the differences in knowledge systems, agency, and power relations across scales. To unveil perceptions we used structural analysis tools [29].…”

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Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change

Cited by 86 publications

References 74 publications

Estimating landslides vulnerability in Rwanda using analytic hierarchy process and geographic information system

Estimating landslides vulnerability in Rwanda using analytic hierarchy process and geographic information system

Gender and Cross-Scale Differences in the Perception of Social-Ecological Systems

Disentangling gender and social difference for just and transformative biocultural approaches

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