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

Margaret Alston, Kerri Whittenbury (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2012
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-5517-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Zusatzinfo	XXII, 282 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Advocacy • climate change • Gender • gender justice • Gender Studies
ISBN-10	94-007-5517-1 / 9400755171
ISBN-13	978-94-007-5517-8 / 9789400755178
Zustand	Neuware