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Climate change is often framed as a problem that needs mainly technical and economic solutions. Climate Change and Gender Justice considers how gender issues are entwined with people’s vulnerability to the effects of climate change, and how gender identities and roles may affect women’s and men’s perceptions of the changes.
The vivid case studies in this book show how women and men in developing countries are experiencing climate change and describe their efforts to adapt their ways of making a living to ensure survival, often against extraordinary odds. Contributors also examine how gender-equality concerns should be integrated into international negotiations and agreements on climate change mitigation and adaptation to ensure that new policies do not disadvantage poor women, but rather deliver them some benefits.
‘No climate justice without gender justice’; the rallying call by lobbyists at the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference in Bali continues to resonate as international negotiations on how to tackle and adapt to climate change become more urgent.
Working in Gender & Development series bring together themed selections of the best articles from the Oxfam journal Gender & Development, supplemented with specially commissioned articles and material drawn from other Oxfam publications. Each title is edited by a key thinker in the field, and includes an up-to-the-minute overview of current thinking and thoughts on future policy responses.
AUTHOR BIOG
Geraldine Terry is based at the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. She is the editor of Gender-based Violence (Oxfam GB), also in the Working in Gender and Development series, and the author of Women’s Rights (Pluto Press).
Caroline Sweetman is the Editor of the international journal Gender & Development.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
Geraldine Terry
2. Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh
Terry Cannon
3. Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach
Marlene Roy and Henry David Venema
4. Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru
Rosa Rivero Reyes
5. Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India
Sara Ahmed and Elizabeth Fajber
6. Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions
Valerie Nelson and Tanya Stathers
7. Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation
Stephanie Buechler
8. Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific
Ruth Lane and Rebecca McNaught
9. The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation
Emily Boyd
10. Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance
Sam Wong
11. The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia
Nidhi Tandon
12. Women’s rights and climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal Marion Khamis, Tamara Plush, and Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya
13. Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward
Minu Hemmati and Ulrike Röhr
14. Conclusion
Resources
Liz Cooke and Geraldine Terry
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