Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science, Policy

Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science, Policy
ISBN-10
1317381688
ISBN-13
9781317381686
Series
Gender and Climate Change
Category
Social Science
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2015-09-25
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Joane Nagel

Description

Does gender matter in global climate change? This timely and provocative book takes readers on a guided tour of basic climate science, then holds up a gender lens to find out what has been overlooked in popular discussion, research, and policy debates. We see that, around the world, more women than men die in climate-related natural disasters; the history of science and war are intimately interwoven masculine occupations and preoccupations; and conservative men and their interests drive the climate change denial machine. We also see that climate policymakers who embrace big science approaches and solutions to climate change are predominantly male with an ideology of perpetual economic growth, and an agenda that marginalizes the interests of women and developing economies. The book uses vivid case studies to highlight the sometimes surprising differential, gendered impacts of climate changes.

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