Water access and environmental migration are crucial global development issues to be examined from an interdisciplinary perspective. Although climate change and water-related dimensions of migration have been widely studied, a gendered lens on this topic is scarce in the current academic literature. To address this gap, I use insights from feminist political ecology and a water-migration-gender nexus to analyze the gender aspects in women's experiences, challenges, and opportunities due to climate change and water stressors. After conducting a systematic literature review, 67 articles were appraised for quality and included in the synthesis to review existing policies. In the discussion section, based on these existing policies, I propose integrated governance strategies that could synergically mitigate water-related problems and (non) migration challenges with a neglected gender focus so that women and girls can prepare to be more resilient to the social, economic, and environmental changes in everyday life. This paper engages with vulnerability, tolerance, and adaptation of women and girls to socio-ecological changes around the water discourse, and it proposes a conceptual framework for the integrated governance strategies to understand better the connection between water-related security risks and development problems resulting from climate change, (non) migration, and gender.
Water and environment-induced migration are crucial global development issues to be examined from an interdisciplinary Nexus approach. Although climate change and water-related dimensions of migration have been widely studied, a gendered lens of the topic is rather scarce in the current academic engagement. With this paper, we aim to provide an overview of the connection between water-related security risks and development problems resulting from climate change, migration, non-migration and gender, understood as unequal power relations. The current analysis contributes to the discourse of Nexus in the context of water-gender-migration while recommending strategies of governance that are sensitive to exclusions and marginalization along with gender. The paper engages with vulnerability, tolerance and adaptation by women and girls to socio-ecological changes around the water discourse. Existing policies will be reviewed, and new integrated solutions will be suggested towards a more resilient water-gender system at the social, economic, and environmental level in the context of migration-non-migration challenges. The paper calls for an answer to an overarching question: “To what extent an integrated governance approach with a lens of gendered vulnerabilities can be used to reduce the water-related problems faced by environmental migrants and non-migrants?” This paper combines a critical review on climate and water-related problems of migrant and non-migrant women and girls and a systematic literature review on integrated water resources governance solutions. In the result section, we propose recommendations for the adoption of integrated Nexus governance that could synergically mitigate both water-related problems and migration/non-migration issues with a neglected gender focus so that women and girls can be prepared to be more resilient to socio-ecological changes in everyday life.
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