Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings: Current Thinking, New Directions, and Research Frontiers: Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
Publisher: Geography Compass
Author(s): Edward R. Carr and Mary C. Thompson
Date: 2014
Topics: Climate Change, Gender
The impacts of climate variability and change impinge upon different lives and livelihoods within agrarian populations in complex ways. While academic, donor, and implementer efforts to understand and act on this complexity have been profoundly influenced by gender analysis, most contemporary analyses are predicated on a construction of gender as binary (men versus women). This approach runs contrary to current understandings of gender and identity in the wider social science literature, which treats gender as a social categorization that takes meaning from its intersection with other identities, roles, and responsibilities.