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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alston, Margaret. (Editor), Whittenbury, Kerri. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Climatic changes.; Social work.; Human Geography.; Developmental psychology.; Environment.; Climate Change.; Gender Studies.; Sociology, general.; Social Work.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5518-5

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 right...

Table of Contents:

• 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<U+0019>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 <U+001c>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<U+0019> Food Security in Andhra Pradesh
• 15. Climate Change, Women<U+0019>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, Per:͠ Beyond Pescador and Ama de Casa
• 19. Climate Change <U+0013> A Himalayan Perspective <U+0018>Local Knowledge <U+0013>the Way Forward<U+0019>
• 20. Gender and Climate Change: Implications for Responding to the Needs of those Affected by Natural Disasters and Other Severe Weather Events.