Persistent women and environment linkages in climate change and sustainable development agendas

Resurrección, Bernadette P.

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2013.03.011

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“…The bad news is that published gender research on climate change may have peaked or at least plateaued but the good news is that it is plausible that it will grow with the agenda on women-environment dynamics that is gaining strength in the climate change debate [54]. Other relevant and valuable studies will be those on ethics and power [19], impacts and responses [49] and distribution and environmental justice [22].…”

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“…In feminist debates, there is a recurring warning that women may run the risk of carrying the burden of environmental care because they are 'closer to nature, are hardest hit by environmental degradation and have special knowledge of natural resource systems' [54] (p. 33). Feminist researchers in the development debate who are critical of this essentialist claim and reasoning-that women have strategic but vulnerable positions vis-à-vis nature-call for nuanced interpretations of gendered relations to natural resources in agriculture, forestry and water management alike [60].…”

Section: Social Relations: Integration Exploitation or Empowerment?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Feminist researchers in the development debate who are critical of this essentialist claim and reasoning-that women have strategic but vulnerable positions vis-à-vis nature-call for nuanced interpretations of gendered relations to natural resources in agriculture, forestry and water management alike [60]. Nevertheless, essentialist arguments are still gaining ground in discussions on how women-environment dynamics are influenced by global warming [54]. According to that line of reasoning, climate change and the many alterations in natural conditions that follow from it as regards impacts and responses (e.g., environmental degradation, land-use change and water scarcity) will make women even more vulnerable if they are close to and dependent on nature.…”

Section: Social Relations: Integration Exploitation or Empowerment?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Jerneck

2018

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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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Section: Social Relations: Integration Exploitation or Empowerment?mentioning

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Section: Social Relations: Integration Exploitation or Empowerment?mentioning

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

Jerneck

2018

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“…A woman in the household has a role to produce food and oversee nutrition status, thus raising higher worries about declining agricultural productivity and higher incidences of food insecurity. Women's roles in food production are affected when the food production deteriorates due to drought and erratic rainfall exposing households to food security risks (Resurrección 2013). Consequently, wives adopt practices inclined to crop production to boost food security in the household.…”

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Gender Differences in Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies: An Intra-Household Analysis from Rural Kenya

2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIt has been widely acknowledged that the effects of climate change are not gender neutral. However, existing studies on adaptation to climate change mainly focus on a comparison of male-headed and female-headed households. Aiming at a more nuanced gender analysis, this study examines how husbands and wives within the same household perceive climate risks and group-based approaches as coping strategies. The data stem from a unique selfcollected and intra-household survey involving 156 couples in rural Kenya, where husbands and wives were interviewed separately. Options for adapting to climate change closely interplay with husbands' and wives' roles and responsibilities, social norms, risk perceptions and access to resources. Consequently, a higher percentage of wives adopt crop-related strategies, whereas husbands employ livestock-and agroforestry-related strategies. Besides, there are gender-specific climate information needs, gendered trust of information and preferred channels of information dissemination. Further, it turned out that group-based approaches benefit husbands and wives differently. Group-based approaches provide avenues for diversifying livelihoods and managing risks for wives, while they are pathways for sharing climate information and adaptation options for husbands. Social groups help husbands and wives to enhance their welfare through accumulating vital types of capital such as livestock, durable assets, human, natural, financial and social capital. The findings suggest that designing gender-sensitive policies and institutionalizing gender in climate change adaptation and mitigation frameworks, are vital. Policy interventions that rely on group-based approaches must reflect gender perspectives on the ground in order to amplify men's and women's specific abilities to manage risks and improve welfare outcomes in the wake of accelerating climate change.

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“…In Western cultures, concepts of knowledge and expertise carry typical masculine connotations (Harding 1991), and qualities such as being competitive, executive, and objective have traditionally been seen as representing masculinity, while qualities such as being inclusive, caring, or intuitive have constituted the typically feminine (cf. Ressner 1985;Alvesson 1997;Lindgren 1999). In addition to the preceding, gender interacts with other categories, such as class, ethnicity, age, and more, which requires an intersectional approach to avoid categorizing women and men as homogeneous groups (Crenshaw 1991).…”

Section: Theoretical Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%