Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations

Susan Buckingham works as an independent researcher, writer and consultant on gender-environment issues. She has recently published a four-volume anthology on gender and environment and has edited five other books on environmental issues. She is currently working on the second edition of Gender and Environment (2000), which has been a key text in this area in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. She is currently the gender consultant to the EU research programme ‘URBAN-WASTE'. Susan is also a yoga practitioner and teacher and writes on yoga in research. Virginie Le Masson is a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK. Her research interests combine social inclusion, disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Her research also looks at the sustainable development of mountain communities. Before joining ODI, Virginie worked with the French Red Cross disaster risk management programme in the Indian Ocean, and with a study abroad programme on climate change and the politics of food, water and energy.

1. Introduction Part 1: Structures 2. Moving beyond impacts: more answers to the ‘gender and climate change’ question 3. Integrating gender issues into the global climate change regime 4. Gender justice and climate justice: building women’s economic and political agency through global partnerships 5. Gender and urban climate change policy: tackling crosscutting issues towards equitable, sustainable cities 6. Natures of masculinities: conceptualising industrial, ecomodern and ecological masculinities 7. The contribution of feminist perspectives to climate governance Part 2: Case studies 8. Gender, climate change and energy access in developing countries: state of the art 9. Everyday life in rural Bangladesh: understanding gender relations in the context of climate change 10. Investigating the gender inequality and climate change nexus in China 11. Revealing the patriarchal sides of climate change adaptation through intersectionality: a case study from Nicaragua 12 Safeguarding gender in REDD+: refl ecting on Mexico’s institutional (in)capacities 13 ‘Women and men are equal so there is no need to develop different projects’: assuming gender equality in development and climate-related projects 14. Co- housing: a double shift in roles? 15. Integrating gender and planning towards climate change response: theorising from the Swedish case 16. A gender- sensitive analysis of spatial planning instruments related to the management of natural hazards in Austria