Asia & Pacific
There are 218 resources related to Asia & Pacific.
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…
Climate Change, Conflict and Internal Displacement in Afghanistan: 'We Are Struggling to Survive'
2022
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Overseas Development Institute
Kerrie Holloway, Zaki Ullah, Dastgir Ahmadi, Elham Hakimi, and Aaftab Ullah
Afghanistan faces one of the world’s most complex crises. Recurring cycles of conflict, violence and natural hazard-related disasters – often exacerbated by climate change –…
Gender Perspective of Flood Early Warning Systems: People-Centered Approach
2022
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Water
Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, Ayat Ullah, Nasir Abbas Khan, and Indrajit Pal
Natural hazards early warning systems (EWS) are built on a solid technical and scientific foundation. However, a significant focus must be on those at risk…
Gender, Climate Change Adaptation, and Cultural Sustainability: Insights From Bangladesh
2022
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Frontiers
Sajal Roy, Shristi Tandukar, and Utsab Bhattarai
The focus of this paper is mainly to investigate climate change adaptation practices and the applicability of a cultural sustainability approach in understanding gender dimension…
‘People Don’t Like the Ultra-Poor Like Me’: An Intersectional Approach to Gender and Participation In Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Projects in Dhaka’s Bostis
2021
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International Development Planning Review
Sally Cawood and Fazle Rabby
In this paper we use an anti, intra and inter-categorical intersectional approach, and ethnographic enquiry in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to nuance debate over gender and participation…
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…
Decolonizing the Gender and Land Rights Debate in India: Considering Religion and More-than-Human Sociality in Women’s Lived Land Relatedness
2022
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Religions
Catrien Notermans and Luna Swelsen
Gender and Power in China’s Environmental Turn: A Case Study of Three Women-Led Initiatives
2022
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Social Sciences
Lu Chen and Mette Halskov Hansen
Exploring Gender Dynamics in Rural Tuna Fishing Communities in the Lagonoy Gulf, Philippines
2022
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Journal of International Women's Studies
Astrid Ocampo and Joann Binondo
Gendered Experience of Disaster: Women's Account of Evacuation, Relief and Recovery in Nepal
2022
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Luna K.C. and Dorothea Hilhorst
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of women earthquake survivors during and after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal by looking at women's experience of evacuation,…
Exercising Time Geography in Gender and Disaster: Discourse Through Women Headed Household Experience During Drought
2022
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Human Geographies
Alia Fajarwati, Sukamdi Sukamdi, Dyah Rahmawati Hizbaron, and Umi Listyaningsih
Time Geography is a boundary-oriented approach to understanding human activity in space and time. In this study, this concept is implemented to identify the daily…
Empowering Young Aboriginal Women to Care for Country: Case Study of the Ngukurr Yangbala Rangers, Remote Northern Australia
2022
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Ecological Management & Restoration
Cherry Wulumirr Daniels, Shaina Russell, and Emilie J. Ens
Globally, the role of women in conservation is gaining attention with increasing initiatives to support gender equity in environmental management and decision-making. In Australia, the…
To Be a Woman in Japan: Disaster Vulnerabilities and Gendered Discourses in Disaster Preparedness in Japan
2022
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Irene Petraroli and Roger Baars
In recent years the international community has acknowledged the importance of gender perspectives in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), arguing that social constructs of gender lead…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet, Afghanistan
2022
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Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Currently, Afghanistan is experiencing…
Resource Extraction, Gender and the Sexual Economy in Hela Province, Papua New Guinea: “Everything has Changed”
2021
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Sexuality & Culture
Agnes Mek, Angela Kelly-Hanku, Richard Eves, and Verena Thomas
Due to the wealth flowing from a large new liquefied natural gas extraction project, Hela Province has undergone immense socio-cultural changes. Many of these changes…
Lessons from Livelihood Interventions that Increase the Resilience of Populations to Droughts in Afghanistan and Other FCAS
2021
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Institute of Development Studies
Roz Price
This review shows a breadth of resilience and livelihood programming in Afghanistan, especially aimed at agriculture and livestock. However, evaluations are not always clearly defined…
Nesor Annim, Niteikapar (Good Morning, Cardinal Honeyeater): Indigenous Reflections on Micronesian Women and the Environment
2020
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The Contemporary Pacific
Myjolynne Marie Kim
Women across Oceania are social justice champions and advocates for Indigenous rights, political independence, anti-militarism, a nuclear-free Pacific, climate change justice, and gender equality. Recent…
Unpacking the Post-Haiyan Disaster Resettlement Narratives of Young Filipino Women Informal Settlers in Tacloban City, Philippines
2021
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Disasters
Ervina A. Espina and Nico A. Canoy
Post-disaster resettlement narratives encapsulate the complex mobile–spatial processes that are embedded in a post-disaster context. The existing literature on disaster relocation and resettlement accords primacy…
The Role of Women in Community Resilience to Climate Change: A Case Study of an Indigenous Fijian Community
2022
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Women's Studies International Forum
Priyatma Singh, Tammy Tabe, and Tess Martin
Climate change is projected to have wide-ranging effects on natural resources, environment, agriculture and fisheries. The various impacts of climate change pose significant risks to…
Gender and Disaster: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Violence Against Women in Nepal
2021
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Journal of Asian and African Studies
Tamsin Bradley, Zara Martin, Bishnu Raj Upreti, Bashnu Subedu, and Sumeera Shrestha
In April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Gorkha district of Nepal. This was followed in May by a second earthquake. Nepal experienced another…
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, Decision-Making and Farm Practice Change: An Action Learning Intervention in Myanmar
2020
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Journal of Rural Studies
M. Carnegie, P.S. Cornish, K.K. Htwe, and N.N. Htwe
A dominant discourse in Myanmar characterises men with ‘farmer’ identities while women, who also undertake farm work, are seen as farm ‘helpers’ and ‘labourers’. We…
“Our Struggle, Our Cry, Our Sweat”: Challenging the Gendered Logics of Participation and Conflict Transition in Solomon Islands
2020
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International Feminist Journal of Politics
Nicole George and Pauline Soaki
While women’s contributions to peacebuilding and conflict mediation are currently viewed as central to the durability of peace, women peace leaders still face constraints in…
How Mining Companies Promote Gender Equality Through Sustainable Development?
2019
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Cogent Business & Management
Nattavud Pimpa
Gender equality has been promoted among social responsibility by mining companies. A key challenge for the management of sustainable development programs for gender equality is…
Land Reform and Welfare in Vietnam: Why Gender of the Land‐Rights Holder Matters
2017
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Journal of International Development
Nidhiya Menon, Yana Rodgers, and Alexis R. Kennedy
Vietnam's 1993 Land Law created a land market by granting households tradable land-use rights. This study uses mixed methods to analyze whether increased land titling…
Indigenous Women's Struggles to Oppose State-Sponsored Deforestation in Chhattisgarh, India
2017
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Gender and Development
Sulakshana Nandi and Samir Garg
In Chhattisgarh state, nearly half the land area is covered with forests that are essential to the livelihoods and culture of the indigenous communities there.…
Ecocentrism in India: An Incredible Model of Peaceful Relation with Nature
2014
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Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology
Chandan Kumar Gautam and Anand Prem Rajan
This article highlights the importance of traditional knowledge, culture and tradition practices in achieving sustainable development. Indian civilization is one of the most primitive and…
Disrupted Gender Roles in Australian Agriculture: First Generation Female Farmers’ Construction of Farming Identity
2021
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Agriculture and Human Values
Lucie Newsome
This article examines the experiences of female farmers in the Australian context who neither married into nor were born into farming and how they construct…
Grass-Roots Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Mosintuwu Women’s School in Poso District, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
2021
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Springer International Publishing
Putri Ariza Kristimanta
Many works of conflict resolution and peacebuilding focus on the Government or top-level leadership efforts. However, peace efforts require a comprehensive approach that is simultaneously…
Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives from a Pastoral Community in Gujarat, India: Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change
2018
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Development and Change
Kalpana Venkatasubramanian and Smita Ramnarain
Adaptation of rural communities to climate change has garnered much attention recently. Within this body of knowledge, two omissions are notable: first, while adaptation and…