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Kyoto protocol negotiations: reflections on the role of women

01/07/2002

5 pages long

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Kyoto protocol negotiations: reflections on the role of women

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At a first glance, the links between the results of the UN negotiations on climate change and gender issues may not be obvious. However, I believe that gender did indeed play a role in these discussions. This was not a role of the first order, but it was nonetheless a significant one. I would like […]

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Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

01/07/2002

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Protocols, treaties, and action: the ‘climate change process’ viewed through gender spectacles

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This paper starts by assessing the extent to which gender considerations have been taken into account in the international processes concerning the development of climate change policy. Finding that there has been very little attention to gender issues, neither in the protocols and treaties nor in the debates around them, the paper goes on to […]

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Introduction

01/07/2002

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Transforming power relationships: building capacity for ecological security

01/07/2002

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Transforming power relationships: building capacity for ecological security

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The risks that climate change poses for the environment and for development are well-documented, yet it has been difficult to build a consensus on measures to reduce global threats to ecological security. How can communities, NGOs, and policy-makers representing less powerful nations overcome objections to measures that aim to mitigate the global threat to environment […]

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Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

01/07/2002

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Climate change: learning from gender analysis and women’s experiences of organising for sustainable development

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This article argues that climate change not only requires major technological solutions, but also has political and socio-economic aspects with implications for development policy and practice. Questions of globalisation, equity, and the distribution of welfare and power underlie many of its manifestations, and its impacts are not only severe, but also unevenly distributed. There are […]

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Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

01/07/2002

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Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations

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Vulnerability to environmental degradation and natural hazards is articulated along social, poverty, and gender lines. Just as gender is not sufficiently mainstreamed in many areas of development policy and practice, so the potential impacts of climate change on gender relations have not been studied, and remain invisible. In this article we outline climate change predictions, […]

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Climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation: why does gender matter?

01/07/2002

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Climate change vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation: why does gender matter?

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Gender-related inequalities are pervasive in the developing world. Although women account for almost 80 per cent of the agricultural sector in Africa, they remain vulnerable and poor. Seventy per cent of the 1.3 billion people in the developing world living below the threshold of poverty are women. It is important that the consequences of climate […]

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Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building

01/07/2002

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Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building

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The issue of sustainable energy development is a key consideration for climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives, and is an integral component of Africa’s ability to achieve the inter-related economic, social, and environmental aims of sustainable development. Nearly one-third of the global population lacks access to energy-efficient services that do not degrade the ecosystem or […]

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Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru

01/07/2002

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Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru

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Climatic disasters are a recurrent problem in Peru. The impacts of disasters differ between and within regions and communities. Rural upland communities, largely dependent on small-scale agriculture and natural resources for survival, are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of extreme climate events. Government policies have not only failed to mitigate this vulnerability, but have […]

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Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

01/07/2002

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Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

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This paper argues that the ability of women to adapt to climate change pressures will be enhanced by using the ‘capabilities approach’ to direct development efforts. By using this approach, women will improve their well-being, and act more readily as agents of change within their communities. This argument is supported by previous research on gender […]

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