North America & Caribbean
There are 54 resources related to North America & Caribbean.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Violence in Environmental Conflicts: The Need for a Multidimensional Approach
2018
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Sustainability Science
Grettel Navas, Sara Mingorria, and Bernardo Aguilar-González
Although studies on environmental conflicts have engaged with the subject of violence, a multidimensional approach has been lacking. Using data from 95 environmental conflicts in…
Cambio Climático y Conflictividad Socioambiental en América Latina y el Caribe (Climate Change and Socio-environmental Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean)
2018
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América Latina Hoy
Alfredo Stein Heinemann
This article contributes to the conceptual and policy debates on the relationship between climate change, security and conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, a…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Harmonising Biodiversity and Climate Action with a Peace Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean
2024
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adelphi global
Hector Morales Munoz and Lais Clemente Pereira
Biodiversity conservation plays a crucial role in addressing the challenges climate change and environmental degradation pose to human security and peace. This practical note explores…
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
2023
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Global Witness
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
Gender and Disaster. Bibliography and Reference Guide, Volume 1
2020
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IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, University College London
Louisa Acciari, Maureen Fordham, Virginie Le Masson, Anjali Saran, Olivia Walmsley, and Punam Yadav
This first volume is part of an ongoing series to compile the literature on Gender and Disaster and to share it with other disciplines and…
Climate Migration in the Dry Corridor of Central America: Integrating a Gender Perspective
2019
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InspirAction/Christian Aid
Ivannia Ayales, Eleanor Blomstrom, Vivienne Solis Rivera, Daniela Pedraza and Paula M. Perez Briceño
The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between three factors – migration, gender and climate change – in the Central American Dry…
Environmental Degradation and Genocide
2022
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Genocide Studies and Prevention
Emily Sample and Henry Theriault
In January 2021, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Genocide Studies and Prevention journal hosted three panels on Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass…
Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America and Complicit Financial Institutions
2021
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Women's Earth & Climate Action Network
Livia Charles, Safia Cissoko, and Osprey Orielle Lake
It is a well-known truth that the climate crisis does not and will not affect everyone equally, as factors such as gender, race, and socio-economic…
Climate Change in Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans
2020
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Elizabeth Smith
This SIPRI Insights paper explores how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) national action plans (NAPs) of 80 states frame and respond to climate change…
Natural Resources and Conflict: A Guide for Mediation Practitioners
2015
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United Nations Department of Political Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme
Michael J. Brown, Alex Grzybowski, David Jensen, and Josie Lianna Kaye
This report bridges the gap between the technical and political aspects by providing a much needed conflict resolution framework for disputes that center on natural…
Gender-Blind DRR Blunts Response and Recovery
2024
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Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
Maryruth Belsey Priebe
Extreme weather is becoming the new normal in modern life. Preventing climate-fueled crises from escalating into full-blown disasters is a must for national security experts,…
Gender, Security, and Climate Change Nexus: Taking Violence Prevention Seriously in the Global South
2024
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Universitas Indonesia
Laila Hanifah
According to prior studies, a significant proportion of individuals affected by conflict regularly demonstrate that women experience violence to a greater extent. As the Cold…
Gender in Civil-Military Climate Security and Disaster Response: Co-Creating Gender-Transformative Approaches amid the Global Climate Crisis
2024
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Pacific Forum International
Maryruth Belsey Priebe and Tevvi Bullock
With the growing frequency, intensity, and severity of climate crisis events and disasters, defense and security institutions will be increasingly called upon to provide humanitarian…
Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement
2024
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Cambridge University Press
Richard Marcantonio, John Paul Lederach, and Agustin Fuentes
The contributors to this book represent a wide breadth of scholarly approaches, including law, social and environmental science, engineering, as well as from the arts…
The Climate-Conflict-Urban Migration Nexus: Honduras, Jordan, and Pakistan
2023
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US Institute of Peace
Gabriela Nagle Aleverio, Jeannie Sowers, and Erika Weinthal
In Honduras, chronic droughts and severe natural disasters, including hurricanes and landslides, increasingly drive rural migrants to cities, where chronic gang violence and a lack of…
Impact of Environmental Crime on Indigenous Women: Evidence from Ecuador, Mexico, Cameroon and Indonesia
2023
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Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Faith Ngum and Radha Barooah
Organized crime is driving environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in forest eco- systems around the world. The impact of environmental degradation on indigenous forest-dependent communities…
Indigenous Women's Employment in Natural Resource Industries in Canada: Patterns, Barriers and Opportunities
2023
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Women's Studies International Forum
Bipasha Baruah and Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic
This paper identifies barriers and opportunities that Indigenous women in Canada face in energy, mining, and forest sector employment through a review of scholarly and…
Beyond the Bean: Analyzing Diversified Farming, Food Security, Dietary Diversity, and Gender in Nicaragua's Smallholders Coffee Cooperatives
2023
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Christopher M. Bacon, Maria E. F. Gomez, Vanessa Shin, Gabi Ballardo, Skyler Kriese, Emma McCurry, Erica Martinez, and Misael Rivas
Diversification is key for agroecological transformations, but little is known about how it relates to farmers’ dietary diversity and food sovereignty. Our team and coffee…
Intersectional Climate Perceptions: Understanding the Impacts of Race and Gender on Climate Experiences, Future Concerns, and Planning Efforts
2023
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Urban Climate
Deidre Zoll, R. P. Bixler, Katherine Lieberknecht, J. A. Belaire, Auva Shariatmadari, and Shalene Jha
Climate change impacts are intensifying social inequalities locally and globally. Exposure to climate risks, as well as the ability to prepare for and recover from…
Taking National Climate Change Gender Action Plans to Heart – Three Steps to Activate a Plan
2023
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Empowering Women for Gender Equity
Nidhi Tandon
Sometimes the policy and material discourses around climate change may feel far removed from the daily realities of people, whose experiences are intensely local and…
Beyond the Bean: Analyzing Diversified Farming, Food Security, Dietary Diversity, and Gender in Nicaragua’s Smallholders Coffee Cooperatives
2023
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Christopher M. Bacon, Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez, Vanessa Shin, Gabi Ballardo, Skyler Kriese, and Emma McCurry
Diversification is key for agroecological transformations, but little is known about how it relates to farmers’ dietary diversity and food sovereignty. Our team and coffee…
Exploring Links Between Education, Forest Management Intentions, and Economic Outcomes in Light of Gender Differences in the United States
2022
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Forest Policy and Economics
Anne Mooka and Puneet Dwivedi
Forests cover 34% of the land in the United States, and nearly 40% of these forests are owned by family forest landowners. While forests were…
Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Enviroment of Peace (Part 2)
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Karolina Eklöw, Farah Hegazi, Florian Krampe, David Michel, Elizabeth Smith, Cedric de Coning, Joshua Busby, Marc Lanteigne, Corey Pattison, and Caleb Ray
SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Biodiversity Disclosure, Sustainable Development and Environmental Initiatives: Does Board Gender Diversity Matter?
2022
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Business Strategy and the Environment
Mariela Carvajal, Muhammad Nadeem, and Rashid Zaman
The Importance of Context-Relevant Feminist Perspectives in Disaster Studies. The Case of a Research on Forest Fires with the Atikamekw First Nation
2022
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Disaster Prevention and Management
Noémie G. Bautista
My research is a study of forest fires that occurred near the Atikamekw community of Wemotaci (Quebec, Canada). This article focuses on the gendered aspects…
Toward a Feminist Political Ecology of Household Food and Water Security During Drought in Northern Nicaragua
2022
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Ecology and Society
Christopher M. Bacon, Lisa C. Kelley, and Iris T. Stewart
Few studies assess the relationship between food and water access, despite global concerns about people’s inability to maintain access to both food and water. We…
Climate Change and Security: Perspectives from the Field
2020
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UN University Centre for Policy Research
Adam Day
This policy brief examines the issue of climate- security primarily from the perspective of UN field offices around the world. It draws principally on aset of…
Disasters, Gender and HIV Infection: The Impact of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
2021
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Mar Llorente, Yolanda Fontanil Gómez, Montserrat Díaz Fernández, and Patricia Solís
Although disasters threaten all people who experience them, they do not affect all members of society in the same way. Its effects are not solely…