Intersectional Climate Perceptions: Understanding the Impacts of Race and Gender on Climate Experiences, Future Concerns, and Planning Efforts
Publisher: Urban Climate
Author(s): Deidre Zoll, R. P. Bixler, Katherine Lieberknecht, J. A. Belaire, Auva Shariatmadari, and Shalene Jha
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Gender
Countries: United States
Climate change impacts are intensifying social inequalities locally and globally. Exposure to climate risks, as well as the ability to prepare for and recover from them, are affected by complex power structures. An expanding body of literature uses an intersectional lens to explicate a more nuanced understanding of how co-constituted power structures manufacture differential climate vulnerabilities.