Research, action and policy [electronic resource] : addressing the gendered impacts of climate change / Margaret Alston, Kerri Whittenbury, editors.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Corporate Author: Gender and Climate Change: Women, Research and Action Conference Monash University
Other Authors: Alston, Margaret, Whittenbury, Kerri
Other title:Addressing the gendered impacts of climate change.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introducing Gender and Climate Change
  • Introducing Gender and Climate Change: Research, Policy and Action / Margaret Alston.
  • Part 2. Questioning Gender and Climate Justice
  • Gendering Climate Knowledge for Justice: Catalyzing a New Research Agenda / Nancy Tuana
  • A Climate for Feminist Intervention: Feminist Science Studies and Climate Change / Andrei L. Israel and Carolyn Sachs
  • Post-conventional Approaches to Gender, Climate Change and Social Justice / Karen Bell
  • Two Solitudes, Many Bridges, Big Tent: Women's Leadership in Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction / Elaine Enarson.
  • Part 3. Interrogating Policy from a Gender Perspective
  • Gendering Climate Change: Implications for Debates, Policies and Practices / Lena Dominelli
  • Gender, Development, and Rights-Based Approaches: Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation and Adaptive Social Protection / Beth Bee, Maureen Biermann and Petra Tschakert
  • From "Free" Trade to Farm Women: Gender and the Neoliberal Environment / Amber J. Fletcher
  • Renegotiating Gender as Farming Families Manage Agricultural and Rural Restructuring in the Mallee / Josephine Clarke.
  • Part 4. Action and Strategies to address Gender and Climate Change
  • Gendered Access to Green Power: Motivations and Barriers for Changing the Energy Provider / Gotelind Alber
  • A Path to Implementation: Gender-Responsive Climate Change Strategies / Lorena Aguilar
  • The Gender Gap in Environmental Attitudes: A System Justification Perspective / Rachel E. Goldsmith, Irina Feygina and John T. Jost.
  • Part 5. Gender and Climate Change Examples from Around the World
  • Gender and Climate Change in Australia and the Pacific / Margaret Alston
  • Gender Issues in Climate Change Adaptation: Farmers' Food Security in Andhra Pradesh / Yianna Lambrou and Sibyl Nelson
  • Climate Change, Women's Health, Wellbeing and Experiences of Gender Based Violence in Australia / Kerri Whittenbury
  • Women Farmer Scientists in Participatory Action Research Processes for Adaptation / Bettina Koelle
  • Gendered Adaptations to Climate Change: A Case Study from the Philippines / Gerlie T. Tatlonghari and Thelma R. Paris
  • Gender and Declining Fisheries in Lobitos, Perú: Beyond Pescador and Ama De Casa / Naomi Joy Godden
  • Climate Change: A Himalayan Perspective 'Local Knowledge
  • The Way Forward' / Reetu Sogani
  • Gender and Climate Change: Implications for Responding to the Needs of Those Affected by Natural Disasters and Other Severe Weather Events / Desley Hargreaves.