North America & Caribbean
There are 56 resources related to North America & Caribbean.
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…
The Climate and Security Advisory Group’s Climate and Security Fellowship Program: Climate Security Risk Briefers
2021
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Center for Climate and Security
These are unprecedented times. The world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, while democracies and economies around the globe are tested. Through it all, climate…
Gender in the Climate-Conflict Nexus: “Forgotten” Variables, Alternative Securities, and Hidden Power Dimensions
2021
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Politics and Governance
Tobias Ide, Marisa O. Ensor, Virginie Le Masson, and Susanne Kozak
The literature on the security implications of climate change, and in particular on potential climate-conflict linkages, is burgeoning. Up until now, gender considerations have only…
Opening the Farm Gate to Women? The Gender Gap in U.S. Agriculture
2020
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Development Southern Africa
Anders Fremstad and Mark Paul
This article provides an empirical analysis of the gender gap for farming in the United States. Using the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture we show…
Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming
2019
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Society & Natural Resources
Isaac Sohn Leslie, Jaclyn Wypler, and Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Although 97% of U.S. farms are “family-owned,” little research examines how gender and sexual relationships – inherent in familial dynamics – influence farmers’ practices and…
Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene
2021
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Springer
Oswald Spring, Úrsula Brauch, and Hans Günter
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts…
The Reality of Aid Report 2020/2021: Aid in the Context of Conflict, Fragility, and the Climate Emergency
2021
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Reality of Aid
Urantsooj Gumbosuren, Vitalice Meja, Sarah Isabelle Torres, Henry Morales, Nerea Craviotto, Brian Tomlinson, and Mark M. Pascual
The 2020/2021 Reality of Aid Report sets out a narrative in support of a transformative shift in the international aid system taking stock of persisting global crises…
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…
Climate Change, “Technology” and Gender: “Adapting Women” to Climate Change with Cooking Stoves and Water Reservoirs
2016
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Gender, Technology and Development
Noémi Gonda
In the countries most affected by climate change, such as Nicaragua, adaptation technologies are promoted with the twofold aim of securing the livelihoods of rural…
Addressing Climate-Related Security Risks: Towards a Programme for Action
2021
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Weathering Risk
Beatrice Mosello, Christian König, Adam Day, and Chitra Nagarajan
Within the multilateral system, there is increasing interest in exploring how climate change risks interact with other factors – including livelihoods, gender inequality and women’s…
Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: Results from the California Women’s Health Survey
2015
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Public Health Nutrition
Joni L. Ricks, Susan D. Cochran, Onyebuchi A. Arah, John K. Williams, and Teresa E. Seeman
This study aimed to investigate the association between food insecurity and intimate partner violence in a population-based sample of heterosexual women. The results show (i) that African-American…
Defending the Land has a Woman’s Name
2020
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Peace Brigades International
Anna Hengeveld
Through this report, PBI aims to bring increased visibility to the specific violence and risks that women defenders of land, territory and the environment face,…
USAID's Women, Peace, and Security: Implementation Plan
2020
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Unites States Agency for International Development
USAID developed this Implementation Plan to support the United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS Strategy) through concrete, effective, and coordinated action across our…
Down the Green Feminist Road
2020
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Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Adalmiina Erkkola, Grace Armstrong
WILPF recognises the close relationship between the environment, women’s rights and peace. For this reason, at the Congress in 2018, WILPF launched the Environmental Peace…
Introduction: Gender, Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response
2019
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Gender & Development
Julie Lafrenière, Caroline Sweetman, and Theresia Thylin
Welcome to this issue of Gender & Development, which is a joint issue co-edited with Theresia Thylin of UN Women’s Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response…
A Woman's Place: U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
2019
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Hurst Publishers
Joana Cook
The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis…
Operationalizing a Feminist Foreign Policy: Recommendations for the US Government
2019
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One Earth Future, Our Secure Future
Stephenie Foster, Susan Markham, and Sahana Dharmapuri
This document focuses on how to operationalize a new feminist foreign policy within the US context. First, it sets out the existing international and national…
Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals, Chapter in Ursula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water
2018
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Springer
Ursula Oswald Spring
Climate change is severely affecting Mexico and Central America (IPCC 2014a) and has caused different impacts on men and women, regions and social classes. Several studies…
Legacies of Violence and the Unfinished Past: Women in Post-Demobilization Colombia and Guatemala
2018
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Peacebuilding
Elisa Tarnaala
This article examines the historically grounded social acceptance of impunity and the role of unwanted actors in peace and transitional processes. The article argues from…
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking Information for Action and Measuring the SDGs
2019
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United Nations Environment Programme
Jillian Campbell, Cate Owren, and Molly Gilligan
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are globally recognized priorities, matters of fundamental human rights, and prerequisites for sustainable development (IUCN, 2018; World Economic Forum, 2015).…
Indigenous Women Respond to Fisheries Conflict and Catalyze Change in Governance on Canada’s Pacific Coast
2018
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Maritime Studies
Sarah Harper, Anne K. Salomon, Dianne Newell, Pauline Hilistis Waterfall, Kelly Brown, Leila M. Harris, and U. Rashid Sumaila
While the agency of individuals has been identified as a key factor in triggering governance transformations in social-ecological systems, more research attention is needed on…
Armed Conflict, Women and Climate Change
2019
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Routledge
Jody M. Prescott
The gender-differentiated and more severe impacts of armed conflict upon women and girls are well recognised by the international community, as demonstrated by UN Security…
Drowning in Complexity? Preliminary Findings on Gender, Peacebuilding and Climate Change in Honduras
2016
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Springer Link
Henri Myrttinen
Although the interconnected issues of gender, climate change and peacebuilding have been high on the international agenda for the past decades, and the interplay between…
The Complex Ties That Bind: Gendered Agency and Expectations in Conflict and Climate Change-Related Migration
2017
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Global Policy
Henri Myrttinen
For the past decade, western public discourse and the policy world have become increasingly concerned about ‘irregular’ migration and, to a slightly lesser extent perhaps,…
Corporate Social Responsibility and Natural Resource Conflict
2016
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Routledge
Kylie McKenna
This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation. Through detailed and…