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From Factory Floors to Climate Frontlines: Women workers’ reframing union agendas for worker-led climate adaptation

21/10/2026

17 pages long

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From Factory Floors to Climate Frontlines: Women workers’ reframing union agendas for worker-led climate adaptation

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This paper examines how women union leaders in Cambodia’s garment sector are reframing the labour agenda into a form of feminist climate governance from the ground up. In global supply chains that deepen precarity, indebtedness, and ecological degradation, women garment workers – largely from rural, low-income backgrounds – are at the frontlines of intersecting economic […]

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Networked Ecofeminist Activism, Politics of Coalition and the Articulation of Resistance Against Mining: Evidence from Southeast Sulawesi

21/10/2026

24 pages long

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Indonesia’s nickel downstreaming agenda has positioned mining expansion as part of a global green energy transition. In South-East Sulawesi, this expansion has intensified ecological degradation across inland nickel-mining zones and coastal stone-quarry areas. Women disproportionately experience these impacts through livelihood dispossession, increased unpaid reproductive labour, and heightened health risks. In this context, the central question […]

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Women, Water and Peace: Strategies for climate adaptation and agricultural sustainability in Somalia

21/10/2026

20 pages long

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Women, Water and Peace: Strategies for climate adaptation and agricultural sustainability in Somalia

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In Somalia’s conflict- and drought-prone regions, women’s local leadership in water and agricultural projects has emerged as a successful model not only for peacebuilding but also community-led climate adaptation and resilience. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2025 in three study sites spread across three Somali federal states, this article examines how local women are […]

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Resources: Community-led resistances and responses to climate crises

21/10/2026

8 pages long

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Resources: Community-led resistances and responses to climate crises

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This is the Resources section for the special issue on ‘community-led resistances and responses to climate crises’.

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More-than-human Farming: Cooperatives, climate shocks and digital adaptation in Rwanda’s agrarian economy

21/10/2026

20 pages long

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More-than-human Farming: Cooperatives, climate shocks and digital adaptation in Rwanda’s agrarian economy

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Rwanda remains a predominantly agrarian economy, with the majority of the population relying on rain-fed farming for livelihoods. This reliance makes rural communities particularly vulnerable to climate shocks such as heavy rains, floods, droughts, and pest outbreaks, which disrupt production and markets in significant and uneven ways. Women and youth farmers are disproportionately affected, facing […]

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Guardianas del Agua del Putumayo: Climate change, the energy transition and social mobilisation led by women in high-risk territories

21/10/2026

28 pages long

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Guardianas del Agua del Putumayo: Climate change, the energy transition and social mobilisation led by women in high-risk territories

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Drawing on the experience of the social movement Guardianas del Agua del Putumayo (Water Guardians of Putumayo) in southern Colombia, this article is co-authored by three feminist-activist-scholars, including a member of the movement, and combines situated evidence and engagement with literature to examine the intersections between energy-transition extractivism, ecological degradation, and gender-based violence. The research […]

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Sa’icelen as Community Strength: Indigenous women, care work and disaster justice in eastern Taiwan

21/10/2026

22 pages long

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Sa’icelen as Community Strength: Indigenous women, care work and disaster justice in eastern Taiwan

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Indigenous communities globally are at the forefront of developing holistic, place-based responses to the climate crisis, yet their knowledge and leadership remain systematically marginalised in mainstream environmental governance. This article examines two Indigenous-led initiatives on Taiwan’s east coast – the Amis tribe’s post-typhoon recovery and the Atayal tribe’s revitalisation of ancestral farming practices – to […]

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Warga Bantu Warga! Climate Finance From Below: Community-led flood recovery after Cyclone Senyar in Sumatra, Indonesia

21/10/2026

22 pages long

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Warga Bantu Warga! Climate Finance From Below: Community-led flood recovery after Cyclone Senyar in Sumatra, Indonesia

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Cyclone Senyar struck northern Sumatra in late November–December 2025, bringing extreme rainfall, flash floods, and severe river erosion across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra. Thousands of homes were buried in mud or rendered uninhabitable, forcing widespread displacement and disrupting rural livelihoods. Despite the scale of destruction, the Indonesian government declined to designate the event […]

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Climate change from the neighbourhood: FUNVIMUFROIN’s community climate school in Cali, Colombia

21/10/2026

21 pages long

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Climate change from the neighbourhood: FUNVIMUFROIN’s community climate school in Cali, Colombia

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This article analyses the experiences of the Women Leaders in an Action Climate School, developed by the community organisation FUNVIMUFROIN in Cali, Colombia, as a case of community climate action in an urban context marked by acute socio-environmental inequality. As a case study, the research describes and analyses the origin, organisational structure, pedagogical approach, and […]

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No one left behind: Towards disability-inclusive approaches for gender and climate research

21/10/2026

18 pages long

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No one left behind: Towards disability-inclusive approaches for gender and climate research

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Although development programming and research around gender and climate has been increasing over the last decade across the sector, there has been insufficient focus on disability and intersectionality. Further, while locally led development is increasingly seen as best practice in policy and scholarly literature, too often consultation takes place after projects have been designed, rather […]

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