Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries

Work, public policy and action
Herausgeber: Griffin Cohen, Marjorie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781138222403
• ISBN-10: 1138222402
• Artikelnr.: 48427111

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Context and Overview
1. Introduction: Why Gender Matters when Dealing with Climate Change
2. Masculinities of Global Climate Change: Exploring Ecomodern,
Industrial and Ecological Masculinity
3. 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
4. Women and Low Energy Construction in Europe: A New Opportunity?
5. Renewable Inequity? Women's Employment in Clean Energy in
Industrialized, Emerging and Developing Economies
6. UK Environmental and Trade Union Groups' Struggles to Integrate
Gender Issues into Climate Change Analysis and Activism
7. Transporting Difference at Work: Taking Gendered Intersectionality
Seriously in Climate Change Agendas
8. The US Example of Integrating Gender and Climate Change in Training:
Response to the 2008-09 Recession Part Three: Vulnerability,
Insecurity and Work
9. Gendered Outcomes in Post-Disaster Sites: Public Policy and Resource
Distribution
10. Climate Change, Traditional Roles, and Work- Interactions in the
Inuit Nunangat
11. Towards Humane Jobs: Recognizing Gendered, Multispecies Intersections
and Possibilities
Part Four: Rural and Resource Communities
12. Maybe Tomorrow Will Be Better: Gender and Farm Work in a Changing
Climate
13. Understanding the Gender Labours of Adaptation to Climate Change in
Forest-Based Communities Through Different Models of Analysis
14. 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
15. How a Gendered Understanding of Climate Change Can Help Shape
Canadian Climate Policy
16. The Integration of Gender in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
in Québec: Silos and Possibilities
17. A Gendered Analysis of Housing Policies in the Context of Climate
Change: A Comparison of Canada and Spain
18. Canadian Indigenous Female Leadership and Political Agency on Climate
Change
19. Using Information about Gender and Climate Change to Inform Green
Economic Policies