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

ISBN-13: 9789400755178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 282 str.

Margaret Alston; Kerri Whittenbury

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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.

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Contents:

Preface

Part I: Introducing Gender and Climate change

1.         Margaret Alston: Introducing Gender and Climate change

Part II: Questioning Gender and Climate Justice

2.         Nancy Tuana: Gender Climate Knowledge for Justice: Catalyzing a New Research Agenda

3.         Andrei L. Israel and Carolyn Sachs: A Climate for Feminist Intervention:  Feminist Science Studies and Climate Change

4.         Karen Bell: Post-Conventional Approaches to Gender, Climate Change and Social Justice

5.         Elaine Enarson: Two Solitudes, Many Bridges, Big Tent: Women’s Leadership in Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction

Part III: Interrogating Policy from a Gender Perspective

6.         Lena Dominelli: Gendering Climate Change:  Implications for Debates, Policies and Practices

7.         Beth Bee, Maureen Biermann and Petra Tschakert: Gender, Development, and Rights-Based Approaches: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation and Adaptive Social Protection

8.         Amber J. Fletcher: From “Free” Trade to Farm Women: Gender and the Neoliberal Environment

9.         Josephine Clarke: 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.       Gotelind Alber: Gendered Access to Green Power: Motivations and Barriers for Changing the Energy Provider

11.       Lorena Aguilar: A Path to Implementation: Gender-Responsive Climate Change Strategies

12.       Rachel E. Goldsmith, Irina Feygina, John T. Jost: The Gender Gap in Environmental Attitudes: A System Justification Perspective

Part V: Gender and Climate Change Examples from Around the World

13.       Margaret Alston: Gender and Climate Change in Australia and the Pacific

14.       Yianna Lambrou, Sibyl Nelson: Gender Issues in Climate Change Adaptation: Farmers’ Food Security in Andhra Pradesh

15.       Kerri Whittenbury: Climate Change, Women’s Health, Wellbeing and Experiences of Gender     Based Violence in Australia

16.       Bettina Koelle: Women Farmer Scientists in Participatory Action Research Processes for Adaptation

17.       Gerlie Tatlonghari and Thelma Paris: Gendered Adaptations to Climate Change: A Case Study  from the Philippines

18.       Naomi Godden: Gender and Declining Fisheries in Lobitos, Perú: Beyond Pescador and Ama de Casa

19.       Reetu Sogani: Climate Change – A Himalayan Perspective  ‘Local Knowledge –the Way Forward’

20.       Desley Hargreaves: Gender and Climate Change: Implications for Responding to the Needs of those Affected by Natural Disasters and Other Severe Weather Events