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The Gender Gap in Pro‐Environmental Political Participation Among Older Adults
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Citizens are increasingly concerned with environmental issues and some of them take contentious political actions or adapt their lifestyles to reduce their environmental footprint. Research…
Environmental Assurance, Gender, and Access to Finance: Evidence From SMEs
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When confronting credit constraints, female-led or -owned firms may adopt environmental assurances to increase access to credit. However, this depends on how financial institutions integrate gender…
Designing the Urban Commons Through Gender and Nature-Based Approach. A Renewed Project for Public Space in Times of Crisis
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The design of the contemporary public space can include the new needs of society, incorporating the values of the current era. The contribution aims to…
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme as a Knowledge Actor
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By analyzing the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP’s) contribution to peacebuilding, this book aims to show how international bureaucracies develop knowledge and thereby come to matter…
Exploring Links Between Education, Forest Management Intentions, and Economic Outcomes in Light of Gender Differences in the United States
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Forests cover 34% of the land in the United States, and nearly 40% of these forests are owned by family forest landowners. While forests were…
Climate Violence = Extreme Climate Conditions x Social Realities: Critical Focus on Women and Girls in Africa
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Climate Change and violence are threats to the livelihood and economic sustainability of women and girls in Africa. Despite the current efforts to address the…
Security Risks of Environmental Crises: Enviroment of Peace (Part 2)
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SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative focuses on managing the risks that are created by two interwoven crises: the darkening security horizon and the immense pressures…
Window Dressing Inequalities and Constructing Women Farmers As Problematic—Gender In Rwanda’s Agriculture Policy
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Rwanda is often depicted as a success story by policy makers when it comes to issues of gender. In this paper, we show how the…
A Green Skills Framework For Climate Action, Gender Empowerment, and Climate Justice
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As governments move in earnest toward a green economy, few countries are considering education policy that can facilitate the development of green skills for such…
Gender, Climate Change Adaptation, and Cultural Sustainability: Insights From Bangladesh
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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…
Iraq's Dying Garden of Eden [Video]
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In Iraq, climate change has transformed the once mythical mesopotamian marshes into deserts. It's not only temperatures that exceed 125°F and record low rainfall, but…
Coping with the Risks of Conflict, Climate and Internal Displacement in Northern Mozambique: ‘We Can’t Just Sit Here with Our Arms Crossed’
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Displacement brings trauma and suffering, as well as destabilising changes to people’s physical surroundings, social networks, livelihood opportunities and local governance structures (Turner, 2010). These…
Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace
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Natural resources management can be a powerful driver of fragility and conflict or a critical tool for peacebuilding. Protracted, cross-border, and compounded transnational challenges such as…
Community-Centered Approaches to Green Mineral Mining: A Conversation with Pact's Roger-Mark De Souza [Audio]
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According to the World Bank, building enough renewable energy infrastructure to keep global warming below 2C will require more than 3 billion tons of minerals. Reducing…
"If I Leave… I Cannot Breathe": Climate Change and Civilian Protection in Iraq
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Climate change is set to cause unpredictable weather patterns, including droughts and flooding, desertification of once arable lands, and increased water shortages. Over the next…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
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Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
The Climate, Gender and Conflict Nexus
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Today’s climate crisis is having a serious impact on the environment with disastrous consequences for health, food security, livelihoods, conflict and forced migration, as well as…
The Implications of Climate Change for Mediation and Peace Processes
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This Practice Note identifies practical suggestions for addressing the effects of climate change in mediation processes, including by leveraging climate policy frameworks and climate finance…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
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In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Gender, Climate, and Security in Yemen: The Linkages and Ways Forward
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This report presents a summary of discussions with WROs regarding peace processes, gendered climate advocacy in Yemen and the linkages of the climate/security/gender nexus in…
State of Gender Equality and Climate Change in South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalaya
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South Asia and the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) are among the regions that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Its adverse impacts…
Tools for Gender-Responsive and Conflict-Sensitive Climate Programming
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In its climate policy and international engagement, the Scottish Government is already a strong voice calling for a gender-responsive approach and women’s participation. Integrating the…
The Meaningful Participation of Women in Solving Our Common Crises: Gendered Perspectives on Climate Change and the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
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Often compounding each other, current trends including climate change, environmental degradation, and increased consumption associated with unsustainable development and population growth, present serious threats to…
Water and Conflict in the Inner Niger Delta: A Governance Challenge
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Conflicts in the Sahel region are mounting. The Inner Niger Delta, located in the Sahelian zone of central Mali at the crossroads between lusher south Mali…
Environmental Degradation and Genocide
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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…
Women, Peace and Security and Land Reform
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Peacebuilding processes involve a wide range of change or reform processes through which the rules of political, social and economic exchange are contested and renegotiated…
The Climate-Security Nexus in the IPCC Report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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This document gathers quotations on the links between climate change and conflict in the IPCC Working Group II report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.…
The Gender Dimensions of Resource Conflicts in Ghana: Deconstructing the Male-Centric and Binary Outlook of Communal Conflicts
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The literature on gender and conflicts in Africa is dominated by essentialised and narrow male-centric constructions of conflict and stereotypes of female victimhood which obscure…
A Climate of Misogyny: Gender, Politics of Ignorance, and Climate Change Denial – An Interview with Katharine Hayhoe
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In this interview, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe discusses with Sophie Bjork-James and Josef Barla: the issue of gender inequality in the natural sciences; the toxic…
A Review of Gender Inclusivity in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Under the Changing Climate in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This paper aims to review the status of gender inclusivity in agriculture and natural resources management in sub-Saharan Africa under the changing climate. Gender inclusivity…