Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings |
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Authors: | Mary Thompson-Hall Edward R Carr Unai Pascual |
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Institution: | 1.International START Secretariat,Washington,USA;2.IDCE,Clark University,Worcester,USA;3.Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3),Leioa,Spain;4.IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science,Bilbao,Spain;5. Department of Land Economy,University of Cambridge,Cambridge,UK |
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Abstract: | Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of diverse identity categories, including but not limited to gender, age, seniority, ethnicity, marital status, and livelihoods. Here, we provide a review of relevant literature on this topic and argue that approaching vulnerability to climate change through intersectional understandings of identity can help improve adaptation programming, project design, implementation, and outcomes. |
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