Citation:
Cohen, Marjorie Griffin. 2017. Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, Public Policy and Action. Abingdon: Routledge.
Author: Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Annotation:
Summary:
"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". (Summary from Routledge)
Table of Contents:
Part One: Context and Overview
1. Introduction: Why Gender Matters when Dealing with Climate Change
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
2. Masculinities of Global Climate Change: Exploring Ecomodern, Industrial and Ecological Masculinity
Martin Hultman & Jonas Anshelm
3. It’s Not Just the Numbers: Challenging Masculinist Working Practices in Climate Change Decision-Making in UK Government and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations
Susan Buckingham & Rakibe Kulcur
Part Two: Challenges for Paid and Unpaid Work
4. Women and Low Energy Construction in Europe: A New Opportunity?
Linda Clarke
5. Renewable Inequity? Women’s Employment in Clean Energy in Industrialized, Emerging and Developing Economies
Bipasha Baruah
6. UK Environmental and Trade Union Groups’ Struggles to Integrate Gender Issues into Climate Change Analysis and Activism
Carl Mandy
7. Transporting Difference at Work: Taking Gendered Intersectionality Seriously in Climate Change Agendas
Leonora Angeles
8. The US Example of Integrating Gender and Climate Change in Training: Response to the 2008–09 Recession
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Part Three: Vulnerability, Insecurity and Work
9. Gendered Outcomes in Post-Disaster Sites: Public Policy and Resource Distribution
Margaret Alston
10. Climate Change, Traditional Roles, and Work– Interactions in the Inuit Nunangat
Mike Kim
11. Towards Humane Jobs: Recognizing Gendered, Multispecies Intersections and Possibilities
Kendra Coulter
Part Four: Rural and Resource Communities
12. Maybe Tomorrow Will Be Better: Gender and Farm Work in a Changing Climate
Amber Fletcher
13. Understanding the Gender Labours of Adaptation to Climate Change in Forest-Based Communities Through Different Models of Analysis
Maureen G. Reed
14. The Complex Impacts of Intensive Resource Extraction on Women, Children and Aboriginal Peoples: Towards Contextually-Informed Approaches to Climate Change and Health
Maya K Gislason, Chris Buse, Shayna Dolan, Margot W Parkes, Jemma Tosh, Bob Woollard
Part Five: Public Policy and Activism
15. How a Gendered Understanding of Climate Change Can Help Shape Canadian Climate Policy
Nathalie Chalifour
16. The Integration of Gender in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Québec: Silos and Possibilities
Annie Rochette
17. A Gendered Analysis of Housing Policies in the Context of Climate Change: A Comparison of Canada and Spain
Penny Gurstein & Sara Ortiz Escalante
18. Canadian Indigenous Female Leadership and Political Agency on Climate Change
Patricia E. Perkins
19. Using Information about Gender and Climate Change to Inform Green Economic Policies
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Topics: Economies, Environment, Climate Change, Gender, Livelihoods Regions: Americas, North America, Europe, Nordic states, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Oceania Countries: Australia, Canada, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America
Year: 2017