Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations

Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations
ISBN-10
1317340604
ISBN-13
9781317340607
Category
Science
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2017-05-08
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Susan Buckingham, Virginie Le Masson

Description

This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations. It considers the ways in which men and women experience the impacts of these in different economic contexts. The chapters dismantle gender inequality and injustice through a critical appraisal of vulnerability and relative privilege within genders. Part I addresses conceptual frameworks and international themes concerning climate change and gender, and explores emerging ideas concerning the reification of gender relations in climate change policy. Part II offers a wide range of case studies from the Global North and the Global South to illustrate and explain the limitations to gender-blind climate change strategies. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers interested in climate change, environmental science, geography, politics and gender studies.

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