Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries

Work, public policy and action
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-22240-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Climate, Work and Society

Climate change is at the forefront of ideas about public policy, the economy and labour issues. However, the gendered dimensions of climate change and the public policy issues associated with it in wealthy nations are much less understood.

Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries covers a wide range of issues dealing with work and working life. The book demonstrates the gendered distinctions in both experiences of climate change and the ways that public policy deals with it. The book draws on case studies from the UK, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Spain and the US to address key issues such as: how gendered distinctions affect the most vulnerable; paid and unpaid work; and activism on climate change. It is argued that including gender as part of the analysis will lead to more equitable and stronger societies as solutions to climate change advance.

This volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars, trade unionists and international organisations with an interest in climate change, gender, public policy and environmental studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffin Cohen, Marjorie

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Context and Overview

- Introduction: Why Gender Matters when Dealing with Climate Change

- Masculinities of Global Climate Change: Exploring Ecomodern, Industrial and Ecological Masculinity

- It’s Not Just the Numbers: Challenging Masculinist Working Practices in Climate Change Decision-Making in UK Government and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations

Part Two: Challenges for Paid and Unpaid Work

- Women and Low Energy Construction in Europe: A New Opportunity?

- Renewable Inequity? Women’s Employment in Clean Energy in Industrialized, Emerging and Developing Economies

- UK Environmental and Trade Union Groups’ Struggles to Integrate Gender Issues into Climate Change Analysis and Activism

- Transporting Difference at Work: Taking Gendered Intersectionality Seriously in Climate Change Agendas

- The US Example of Integrating Gender and Climate Change in Training: Response to the 2008–09 Recession

Part Three: Vulnerability, Insecurity and Work

- Gendered Outcomes in Post-Disaster Sites: Public Policy and Resource Distribution

- Climate Change, Traditional Roles, and Work– Interactions in the Inuit Nunangat

- Towards Humane Jobs: Recognizing Gendered, Multispecies Intersections and Possibilities

Part Four: Rural and Resource Communities

- Maybe Tomorrow Will Be Better: Gender and Farm Work in a Changing Climate

- Understanding the Gender Labours of Adaptation to Climate Change in Forest-Based Communities Through Different Models of Analysis

- The Complex Impacts of Intensive Resource Extraction on Women, Children and Aboriginal Peoples: Towards Contextually-Informed Approaches to Climate Change and Health

Part Five: Public Policy and Activism

- How a Gendered Understanding of Climate Change Can Help Shape Canadian Climate Policy

- The Integration of Gender in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Québec: Silos and Possibilities

- A Gendered Analysis of Housing Policies in the Context of Climate Change: A Comparison of Canada and Spain

- Canadian Indigenous Female Leadership and Political Agency on Climate Change

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Using Information about Gender and Climate Change to Inform Green Economic Policies

Über Autor(innen)

Marjorie Griffin Cohen is an economist and a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada.