South America
There are 71 resources related to South America.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not
2019
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International Initiative for Impact Evaluatio
Francis Rathinam, Priyanka Cardoz, Zeba Siddiqui, and Marie Gaarder
While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…
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…
Gender and Climate Change in Latin America: An Analysis of Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Based on Household Surveys: Gender and Climate Change in Latin America
2016
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Journal of International Development
Lykke E. Andersen, Dorte Verner, and Manfred Wiebelt
This paper analyses gender differences in vulnerability and resilience to shocks, including climate change and climate variability, for Peru, Brazil and Mexico, which together account…
IRC Watchlist 2021
2020
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International Rescue Commission
The IRC is launching Watchlist 2021 as a call to action for global leaders and the general public. Historically, the annual Watchlist was a humanitarian…
Perils of Peacebuilding: Gender-Blindness, Climate Change and Ceasefire Capitalism in Colombia and Myanmar (chapter in "Feminist Conversations on Peace")
2022
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Bristol University Press
Henri Myrttinen and Diana López Castañeda
Peacebuilding requires a complex set of operations and transformations that address root causes of conflict, repairs victims and creates trust – all of which are…
Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability
2024
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Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
A. C. Cristina De la Parra-Guerra, J. Truyol-Padilla , C. García-Alzate, and F. Fuentes Gandara
This study provides an exhaustive analysis of the intersection between gender-based violence and environmental sustainability, focusing on the Colombian experience, particularly within the context of…
Women’s Resistance to War, Injustice, and Environmental Crisis
2025
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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Genevieve Riccoboni and Jacqueline Dyna
The root causes, manifestations and attempts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis all hold profound implications for gender equality and human security. Women,…
Climate Change and Gender-based Violence in Colombia: Peacebuilding, Feminism and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
2025
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Handbook on Gender and Security
Natalia Urzola and María Paula González Espinel
Climate change's devastating effects exacerbate pre-existing conditions of vulnerability, including gender-based violence. For historically marginalized groups in Colombia (i.e., Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, peasants, women,…
Advancing Gender-Responsive Synergies Across the Rio Conventions: Gender Equality at the Intersection of Climate Action, Biodiversity Protection, and Sustainable Land Management
2024
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UN Women
Despite decades of coordination initiatives, the implementation of the Rio conventions—the treaties designed to protect life on earth, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), the UN…
Post-Conflict Restitution of Customary Land: Guidelines and Trajectories of Change
2023
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World Development
Sandra F. Joireman and Rosine Tchatchoua-Djomo
Since the 1990s a body of soft international law and public policy has developed around property restitution after conflict. The Pinheiro Principles and the Voluntary…
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…
Perils of Peacebuilding: Gender-Blindness, Climate Change and Ceasefire Capitalism in Colombia and Myanmar (chapter in "Feminist Conversations on Peace")
2022
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Bristol University Press
Henri Myrttinen and Diana López Castañeda
Peacebuilding requires a complex set of operations and transformations that address root causes of conflict, repairs victims and creates trust – all of which are…
Integrating Gender, Peace and Environment: The Gender Dimension of Environmental Peacebuilding
2023
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Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding
Sarah Mead and Marie Jacobsson
The interlinked nature of environmental protection and natural resource management on the one hand, and peacebuilding on the other, has been clearly established in the foregoing chapters.…
Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Women's Poverty: A Bolivian Case Study
2022
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Journal of International Development
Luis E. Escalante and Helene Maisonnave
Climate change affects men and women differently, and pre-existing gender disparities may worsen. We use a gendered computable general equilibrium model linked with microsimulations to…
Gender Stereotypes in Ecological Research Themes: An Analysis of the Last 20 Years of the Argentinian Ecology Conferences
2023
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Austral Ecology
Florencia Spirito, Paula Meli, M. Fernanda Reyes, Gabriel Núñez-Vivanco, Zoe Beloff, and Josefina L. De Paepe
Although Argentina harbours a notable increase in the academic community, achieving the highest number of researchers per capita in Latin America, the gender gap is…
Climate, Women, and Conflict: Rebel Groups’ Armed Activities after Major Disasters
2023
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Global Studies Quarterly
Tobias Ide
This study builds long-anticipated bridges between the literature on (i) climate/disaster security, (ii) women, peace, and security, and (iii) rebel group behavior. Specifically, I analyze…
Work-Parenthood Conflicts at the Operator and Professional Levels in Chile's Mining Industry: A Gender Analysis
2023
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Journal of Family Studies
Pamela Caro, Daniela Madrid, and María Elvira Cárdenas
The aim of this article is to determine, from a gender and class perspective, how mothers who work in mining operations experience the tensions associated…
Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice
2023
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Taylor & Francis
Janine N. Clark
This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Locating resilience in the relationships…
Land in the New Urban Agenda: Opportunities, Challenges, and Way Forward
2017
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World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty
Bahram Ghazi, Danilo Antonio, Katia Araujo, Oumar Sylla, Rebecca Ochong, and Susana R. Williams
Land governance underpins all key aspects of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) which was adopted at the closing plenary of the Habitat III, the United…
The Invisibility of Young People in Family Farming: A Gender Perspective in the Semi-Arid Region of Ceará, Brazil
2023
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Cahiers Agricultures
Laudemira Rabelo and Julien Daniel Pierre Burte
The evolution of family farming cannot be analyzed only from the perspective of production. Since it is also a kinship unit, the family farm reveals…
Gender-Based Environmental Violence in Colombia: Problematising Dominant Notions of Gender-Based Violence During Peacebuilding
2022
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The Australian Feminist Law Journal
Natalia Urzola and María P. González
Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement is innovative in many ways. Remarkably, the agreement places significant emphasis on gender as a guiding principle. Gender-related measures are at…
Gender and Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Hunger Through Women's Voices
2022
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Ciência & Saude Coletiva
Brunah Schall, Flora R. Goncalves, Polyana A. Valente, Mariela Rocha, Braulio S. Chaves, Paloma Porto, Agda M. Moreira, and Denise N. Pimenta
This paper presents the results of the research nested in the international project "Gender and COVID-19", which includes several topics related to the impact of…
Informal Mining in Colombia: Gender-Based Challenges for the Implementation of the Business and Human Rights Agenda
2022
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Business and Human Rights Journal
Lina M. Céspedes-Báez, Enrique Prieto-Ríos, Juan P. Pontón-Serra, Joanna B. Martignoni, Nora Götzmann, Bonita Meyersfeld, and Harpreet Kaur
This paper analyses whether the implementation of business and human rights (BHR) frameworks in Colombia properly responds to the challenges posed by informal mining and…
Advancing Gender Equality and Climate Action: A Practical Guide to Setting Targets and Monitoring Progress
2022
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Climate and Development Knowledge Network, Overseas Development Institute, SNV, CARE, and Mercy Corps
Mairi Dupar and Patricia Velasco
Gender inequalities shape people’s vulnerabilities to climate change. Women have less access to the development services and support – such as adequate healthcare, education and…