Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science, Policy

✍ Scribed by Joane Nagel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Does gender matter in global climate change? This timely and provocative book takes readers on a guided tour of basic climate science, then holds up a gender lens to find out what has been overlooked in popular discussion, research, and policy debates. We see that, around the world, more women than men die in climate-related natural disasters; the history of science and war are intimately interwoven masculine occupations and preoccupations; and conservative men and their interests drive the climate change denial machine. We also see that climate policymakers who embrace big science approaches and solutions to climate change are predominantly male with an ideology of perpetual economic growth, and an agenda that marginalizes the interests of women and developing economies. The book uses vivid case studies to highlight the sometimes surprising differential, gendered impacts of climate changes.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction Why Gender and Climate Change?
Chapter 1 What Is Global Climate Change?
Chapter 2 Gender and Global Warming
Chapter 3 Gender and Sea Level Rise
Chapter 4 Gender and Climate Change Science
Chapter 5 Gender and the Military-Science Complex
Chapter 6 Gender and Climate Change Skepticism
Chapter 7 Gender and Climate Change Policy
Conclusion Engendering Global Climate Change
Index