Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward

Hemmati, Minu; Röhr, Ulrike

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“…For instance, there is a growing body of literature on gender and climate change (Denton 2002, Röhr et al 2008, Hemmati and Röhr 2009, Dankelman 2010, Glazebrook 2011. Although studies and political initiatives that focus on one single variable (such as place, gender, or economic status) are valuable for illuminating power relations in the face of climate change, they often fail to consider how this base 420…”

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“…At the same time, those most exposed and vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change are poor and marginalised people living particularly in lowincome areas. These groups tend, moreover, to be underrepresented at all levels of decision making regarding climate issues (Hemmati andRöhr 2009, Okereke andSchroeder 2009). The existence of climate-related injustices between different countries and areas is recognised by scholars and political actors, and is a focus in international climate negotiations.…”

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Climate change through the lens of intersectionality

Kaijser

Kronsell

2013

Environmental Politics

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Investigations of the interconnectedness of climate change with human societies require profound analysis of relations among humans and between humans and nature, and the integration of insights from various academic fields. An intersectional approach, developed within critical feminist theory, is advantageous. An intersectional analysis of climate change illuminates how different individuals and groups relate differently to climate change, due to their situatedness in power structures based on context-specific and dynamic social categorisations. Intersectionality sketches out a pathway that stays clear of traps of essentialisation, enabling solidarity and agency across and beyond social categories. It can illustrate how power structures and categorisations may be reinforced, but also challenged and renegotiated, in realities of climate change. We engage with intersectionality as a tool for critical thinking, and provide a set of questions that may serve as sensitisers for intersectional analyses on climate change.

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Climate change through the lens of intersectionality

Kaijser

Kronsell

2013

Environmental Politics

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“…Women have also had limited participation in discussions on issues of climate change and REDD+ (Peach Brown 2011). Despite the increase in the participation of women at international climate summits, policy forums, and in forest resource negotiations, women's voices in the decision process at local and national levels remains limited (Hemmati and Röhr 2009;Peach Brown 2011;Terry 2009). As such, recent literature has advocated the need to increase the women's participation, while analyzing the power relations involved in decisionmaking processes regarding climate change and forests (Mai et al 2011;Nelson and Stathers 2009).…”

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Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Villamor

Amaruzaman

Noordwijk

2013

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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This study explores the role of gender as a factor in decision making about alternative land use options and in responses to new investment opportunities, which has received little attention to date. An observational study to determine the different factors affecting male and female decisions to change land use at the individual level in a forest margin landscape in Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia) was combined with a set of role playing games (RPGs) designed to assess participant responses in a simulated social setting of women-only and men-only groups. The RPG included simulated agents offering new opportunities to convert or conserve agroforest. In the study area, rubber (Hevea braziliensis) agroforests that support high biodiversity and carbon storage are giving way to monoculture rubber and oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations. When women from both the upland and lowland villages played the RPGs, external investors proposing logging or oil palm conversion were approached very positively and the resulting land use change was more dynamic and extensive than in the equivalent men-only groups. Consequently, women outperformed men in achieving income targets. In lowland areas gender is strongly associated with land use change, while in the uplands the level of conservation awareness plays a more crucial role in the maintenance of rubber agroforests. Based on the data, and contrary to expectations and gender stereotypes, it is expected that the greater involvement of women in landscape level decision making will increase emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the area, posing further challenges to efforts to reduce such emissions.

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“…There are many important insights on the gendered aspect of environmental organizations, institutions and governance in the North (e.g. Hemmati and Röhr, 2009;Seager, 1993) as well as the gendered and raced nature of environmental justice and environmental disasters (e.g. Kurtz, 2007;Miller et al, 1996;Seager, 2006).…”

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Shopping to save lives: Gender and environment theories meet ethical consumption

Hawkins

2012

Geoforum

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Engendering the climate-change negotiations: experiences, challenges, and steps forward

Cited by 76 publications

References 2 publications

Climate change through the lens of intersectionality

Climate change through the lens of intersectionality

Gender influences decisions to change land use practices in the tropical forest margins of Jambi, Indonesia

Shopping to save lives: Gender and environment theories meet ethical consumption

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