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Description of  Climate Change, Adaptation and Gender: Methodological Underpinnings (CABI Climate Change Series, 13)

1789249899 pdf This book offers a wide, in-depth study of the gender-climate change-agriculture nexus. Despite more than 40 years of research exploring this nexus, there is still ambiguity around the foundations, connections, and approaches for planning gender-inclusive climate policies. This volume clears that ambiguity. This is the first book to explore exclusively this issue in this detail The book reveals how and why consideration of gender is so important for understanding how climate change impacts on rural communities and agricultural systems globally The book explores every dimension of climate change (including belief systems and perceptions, knowledge, experience, coping strategies, adaptation and mitigation strategies) and links it to gender. It includes new theoretical and methodological approaches that go far beyond the household as the unit of analysis (using various approaches, including intersectional analysis) Read more