Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change

Presenting the voices of women from every continent, and analyzing data on women who face vastly different climate events and challenges, this book heralds a new way of understanding climate change that incorporates gender justice and human rights for all.

Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change presents the voices of women from every continent, women who face vastly different climate events and challenges. The book heralds a new way of understanding climate change that incorporates gender justice and human rights for all.

Offers a global perspective on the challenges that climate variation imposes on women Includes research and reports from Australia and the Pacific region to South Africa to the Himalayas Shows how, besides being vulnerable to the worst effects of climate change, women can claim a more substantial role in planning and implementing the proper response Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Contents.- Preface.- Part I: Introducing Gender and Climate Change.- 1. Introducing Gender and Climate Change.- Part II: Questioning Gender and Climate Justice.- 2. Gender Climate Knowledge for Justice: Catalyzing a New Research Agenda.- 3. A Climate for Feminist Intervention: Feminist Science Studies and Climate Change.- 4. Post-Conventional Approaches to Gender, Climate Change and Social Justice.- 5. Two Solitudes, Many Bridges, Big Tent: Women's Leadership in Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction.- Part III: Interrogating Policy from a Gender Perspective.- 6. Gendering Climate Change: Implications for Debates, Policies and Practices.- 7. Gender, Development, and Rights-Based Approaches: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation and Adaptive Social Protection.- 8. From Free Trade to Farm Women: Gender and the Neoliberal Environment.- 9. Renegotiating Gender as Farming Families Manage Agricultural and Rural Restructuring in the Mallee.- Part IV: Action and Strategies to Address Gender and Climate Change.- 10. Gendered Access to Green Power: Motivations and Barriers for Changing the Energy Provider.- 11. A Path to Implementation: Gender-Responsive Climate Change Strategies.- 12. The Gender Gap in Environmental Attitudes: A System Justification Perspective.- Part V: Gender and Climate Change Examples from Around the World.- 13. Gender and Climate Change in Australia and the Pacific.- 14. Gender Issues in Climate Change Adaptation: Farmers' Food Security in Andhra Pradesh.- 15. Climate Change, Women's Health, Wellbeing and Experiences of Gender Based Violence in Australia.- 16. Women Farmer Scientists in Participatory Action Research Processes for Adaptation.- 17. Gendered Adaptations to Climate Change: A Case Study from the Philippines.- 18. Gender and Declining Fisheries in Lobitos, Perú: Beyond Pescador and Ama de Casa.- 19. Climate Change A Himalayan Perspective 'Local Knowledge the Way Forward'.- 20. Gender and Climate Change:Implications for Responding to the Needs of those Affected by Natural Disasters and Other Severe Weather Events.