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Short Summary
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| Title |
Gender and Climate Change: Giving the “Latecomer”
a Head Start |
| Author |
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) |
| Publication
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January 2004 |
| Publisher |
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) |
| Volume |
IDS Bulletin 35 |
| Series |
3 |
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Short Summary |
Gender issues have made a slow entry into the
climate change debate. This is partly due to the fact that climate
change has generally been perceived as a global phenomenon, with little
attention being paid to differentiating the potential impacts that
women and men might face. For example, women tend to have less access
to valuable resources such as land and credit, which reduces their
capacity to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. This
paper focuses on three climate sensitive areas - agriculture, water
and energy - and considers how adaptation strategies could be designed
to help women and men in these sectors to mitigate the effects of
climate change. Suggestions include the need for forest management
projects that offer new skills to help improve crop species, soil
quality and water conservation. Local community projects could also
be a source of funds for women wishing to embark on specific activities
such as sustainable harvesting of forestry products.
The IDS Bulletin is available on subscription from http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/index.html
. Alternatively hard copies are available from the British Library
of Development Studies (BLDS) which offers a document delivery and
inter-library loan service, see: http://blds.ids.ac.uk/blds/docdel.html
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