Gendered Perception and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Urban Slum Communities in Accra, Ghana
Publisher: Regional Environmental Change
Author(s): Mensah Owusu, Melissa Nursey-Bray, and Diane Rudd
Date: 2024
Topics: Climate Change, Gender
Countries: Ghana
Climate change is known to have differential impacts in the Global South, with gender and poverty being determining factors. In Ghana, both these factors come into play as women living in slums bear the brunt of the impacts. In spite of this, the majority of research in gender and climate change adaptation has focused on rural communities to the detriment of their poor urban counterparts. Using a critical feminist intersectional approach, this study investigates how the interplay between gender, socio-economic, institutional and place-based factors shapes vulnerability to climate change in three slums in urban Accra, Ghana.