Sustainability and Social Justice
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of diverse identity categories, including but not limited to gender, age, seniority, ethnicity, marital status, and livelihoods. Here, we provide a review of relevant literature on this topic and argue that approaching vulnerability to climate change through intersectional understandings of identity can help improve adaptation programming, project design, implementation, and outcomes.
Publication Title
Ambio
Publication Date
12-1-2016
Volume
45
First Page
373
Last Page
382
ISSN
0044-7447
DOI
10.1007/s13280-016-0827-0
Keywords
agriculture, climate change adaptation, gender, identity, intersectional, vulnerability
Repository Citation
Thompson-Hall, Mary; Carr, Edward; and Pascual, Unai, "Enhancing and Expanding Intersectional Research for Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings" (2016). Sustainability and Social Justice. 80.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/80