Engendering Climate Change: Learnings from South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780815361657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 242 str.

Asha Hans; Nitya Rao; Anjal Prakash

Opis

This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in south Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability.

Spis treści

List of tables. List of figures. List of contributors. Forward. Acknowledgements 1. Gender Climate Change and the Politics of Vulnerability: An Introduction Part I: Vulnerabilities 2. Vulnerabilities Of Rural Women To Climate Extremes: A Case Of Semi-Arid Districts In Pakistan 3. Gendered Vulnerabilities in Diaras: Struggles with Floods in the Gandak River Basin in Bihar, India 4. Of Borewells And Bicycles: The Gendered Nature Of Water Access and its Implications for Local Vulnerability 5. Vulnerabilities And Resilience Of Local Women Towards Climate Change In Indus Basin 6. Climate Change, Gendered vulnerabilities and Resilience in High Mountain Communities- Case of Upper Rasuwa in Gandaki River Basin, Hindu Kush Himalaya Part II: Adaptation and Wellbeing 7. Wells and Well-being in South India: Gender Dimensions of Groundwater Dependence 8. Gender, migration and environmental change in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta in Bangladesh 9. Female Headed Households, Migration and Adaptation in Mahanadi Delta, India 10. Climate Change and Gender Dynamics: Mapping the Linkages in the Upper Ganga Basin in Uttarakhand, India 11. Conclusion: The Path to Gender Consciousness. Index.