Adaptation to Climate Change- Gendered processes, power and places in the National Adaptation Programmes of Action
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Global changes in weather patterns and environmental processes are bringing the climate change discourse from the abstract to the concrete. Through the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention, the global community has highlighted three key areas of urgent action. These are vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation. This thesis focuses on the area of adaptation, framing it within the contexts of gender and justice. The analysis is drawing on sources mainly from critical ecofeminism together with gender and development to consider the impact and aspects of processes, power and place within the climate change discourse. Through a critical reading of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action, an instrument for vulnerability and... (More)
- Global changes in weather patterns and environmental processes are bringing the climate change discourse from the abstract to the concrete. Through the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention, the global community has highlighted three key areas of urgent action. These are vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation. This thesis focuses on the area of adaptation, framing it within the contexts of gender and justice. The analysis is drawing on sources mainly from critical ecofeminism together with gender and development to consider the impact and aspects of processes, power and place within the climate change discourse. Through a critical reading of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action, an instrument for vulnerability and adaptation needs assessment of the Least Developed Countries, it is argued that gender issues, and especially women's position, must be more explicitly illuminated and put in the context of power asymmetries and the feminization processes of poverty and survival. In this course of action, notions of the relationship between women and the environment must be critically and carefully applied. (Less)
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- Andersson, Tanja
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- year
- 2006
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- adaptation, climate change, ecofeminism, gender, justice, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1324113
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- 2007-01-09 00:00:00
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- 2007-01-30 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Global changes in weather patterns and environmental processes are bringing the climate change discourse from the abstract to the concrete. Through the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention, the global community has highlighted three key areas of urgent action. These are vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation. This thesis focuses on the area of adaptation, framing it within the contexts of gender and justice. The analysis is drawing on sources mainly from critical ecofeminism together with gender and development to consider the impact and aspects of processes, power and place within the climate change discourse. Through a critical reading of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action, an instrument for vulnerability and adaptation needs assessment of the Least Developed Countries, it is argued that gender issues, and especially women's position, must be more explicitly illuminated and put in the context of power asymmetries and the feminization processes of poverty and survival. In this course of action, notions of the relationship between women and the environment must be critically and carefully applied.}},
author = {{Andersson, Tanja}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Adaptation to Climate Change- Gendered processes, power and places in the National Adaptation Programmes of Action}},
year = {{2006}},
}