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New publication

Climate Change and Gender Justice

Edited by Geraldine Terry with Caroline Sweetman

 

Publication date: 9th November 2009

Published by Oxfam GB and Practical Action Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-85339-693-9

Paperback

£14.95

 

Available to download here:

http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=e2009102714551387

                                            


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.

 

Geraldine Terry is based at the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and is affiliated to the Tyndall Centre for Research on Climate Change and the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala. 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
  2. Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh
  3. Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach
  4. Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru
  5. Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India
  6. Resilience, power, culture, and climate: a case study from semi-arid Tanzania, and new research directions
  7. Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation
  8. Building gendered approaches to adaptation in the Pacific
  9. The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation
  10. Climate change and sustainable technology: re-linking poverty, gender, and governance
  11. The bio-fuel frenzy: what options for rural women? A case of rural development schizophrenia
  12. Women’s rights and climate change: using video as a tool for empowerment in Nepal
  13. Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward
  14. Conclusion and Resources

 

Also available in the Working in Gender & Development series:

 

HIV and AIDS http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=9780855986032

Gender-based Violence http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=9780855986025

 

Available to download free at www.oxfam.org.uk/publications

 

 





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