No climate justice without gender justice: an overview of the issues

Splintering South: Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory in a Fragmented Global Climate

“…As for resistance to global environmental inequality, numerous studies highlight forms of resistance by peripheral states and civil society actors to the disadvantageous rules in global governance regimes on issues such as forests (Schroeder 2010;Ciplet 2014), biodiversity (Escobar 1998;Shiva 1996), waste (Okereke 2006), and climate change (Pettit 2004;Terry 2009;Roberts and Parks 2009;Ciplet 2014Ciplet , 2015Ciplet et al 2015). However, few studies have explicitly linked these politics of resistance and the forms that they take in particular historical periods to conceptions of ecologically unequal exchange.…”

The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu

“…Through the channels of international development agencies, research institutions, non--governmental organisations, consultancies and investigative journalism, a climate change crisis discourse has emerged, involving climate change experts, advocates and sceptics making wide--ranging claims over a range of vulnerable people and places (Bravo, 2009). Climate vulnerable populations are being positioned as victims, but also as evidence of the climate crisis (Bravo, 2009;Farbotko, 2010a;2010b;Terry, 2009). While a romanticised conflation of the interests of 'nature' with those of the indigenous or rural poor is not a new phenomenon (Malkki 1992), what is different for climate vulnerable populations is the extensive scaling up of the 'crisis of nature' discourse along temporal and spatial axes, and with it, the representational and material burdens that vulnerable populations (generally among those least involved in producing climate damage) are being made to bear.…”

Integrating gender into forestry research: A guide for CIFOR scientists and programme administrators

“…1 As a result of changes in climate, women in the Ganges River basin are switching crops and moving into fish farming. These women identified the need for information, training and extension services to help them adopt new practices successfully (Terry 2009). In Tanzania and Kenya, although women and men in the same households were found to be equally capable of adopting new strategies, the women were limited by a lack of financial capital, gender norms that restrict their activities and lack of time because of responsibilities for other tasks (Terry 2009).…”

“…These women identified the need for information, training and extension services to help them adopt new practices successfully (Terry 2009). In Tanzania and Kenya, although women and men in the same households were found to be equally capable of adopting new strategies, the women were limited by a lack of financial capital, gender norms that restrict their activities and lack of time because of responsibilities for other tasks (Terry 2009). Women in Mali faced difficulties breaking into the charcoal industry because it was dominated by men and socially restricted to Iklan women (Djoudi and Brockhaus 2011).…”

“…Women are also more likely to bear the brunt of natural disasters that occur as a consequence of climate change. Women and children are more likely than men to die in natural disasters and they bear the brunt of recovery efforts during the aftermath (Terry 2009). …”