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Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations

This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations. It considers the ways in which men and women experience the impacts of these in different economic contexts. The chapters dismantle gender inequality and injustice through a critical appraisal of vulnerability and relative privilege within genders. Part I addresses conceptual frameworks and international themes concerning climate change and gender, and explores emerging ideas concerning the reification of gender relations in climate change policy. Part II offers a wide range of case studies from the Global North and the Global South to illustrate and explain the limitations to gender-blind climate change strategies. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers interested in climate change, environmental science, geography, politics and gender studies.

Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 157

Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

“Good books make important points because their authors have something worthwhile to say. This book is more than a good book because its authors not only make important points but they do so in ways that exemplify the transdisciplinarity the authors write about. In eight interesting and insightful chapters the book connects pedagogy, marketing, development, immanence, race, resilience, technology, and the commons in ways that show the necessity and importance of transdisciplinary thinking. This is a book for those who seek deeper and more creative connections to a sustainable way of life, a way of life that opens up imaginative acts of hope.” – John Novak, Professor in the Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Education at Brock University; his research interests include: Philosophy of education, Invitational theory and practice, Educational leadership, and Social-cultural contexts of education

Local Activism for Global Climate Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Local Activism for Global Climate Justice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book will inspire and spark grassroots action to address the inequitable impacts of climate change, by showing how this can be tackled and the many benefits of doing so. With contributions from climate activists and engaged young authors, this volume explores the many ways in which people are proactively working to advance climate justice. The book pays special attention to Canada and the Great Lakes watershed, showing how the effects of climate change span local, regional, and global scales through the impact of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, with related economic and social effects that cross political jurisdictions. Examining examples of local-level activism that...

Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Climate change is at the forefront of ideas about public policy, the economy and labour issues. However, the gendered dimensions of climate change and the public policy issues associated with it in wealthy nations are much less understood. Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries covers a wide range of issues dealing with work and working life. The book demonstrates the gendered distinctions in both experiences of climate change and the ways that public policy deals with it. The book draws on case studies from the UK, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Spain and the US to address key issues such as: how gendered distinctions affect the most vulnerable; paid and unpaid work; and activism on climate change. It is argued that including gender as part of the analysis will lead to more equitable and stronger societies as solutions to climate change advance. This volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars, trade unionists and international organisations with an interest in climate change, gender, public policy and environmental studies.

How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world’s religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to address climate change and its consequences for human societies, especially the world’s poor. This is the first volume to use social science to examine how religions are helping to address one of the most significant and far-reaching challenges of our time. While there is a growing literature in theology and ethics about climate change and religion, little research has been previously published about the ways in which religious institutions, groups and individuals are responding to the problem of climate change. Seventeen research-driven chapters are written by sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and other social scientists. This book explores what effects religions are having, what barriers they are running into or creating, and what this means for the global struggle to address climate change.

Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The success of the entire food supply chain depends on the prosperity of farms and local communities. The direct climate change risks faced by the agricultural sector are therefore also risks to businesses and food supply chains. Hence the importance of resilience at farm level, community level and business level when looking at food supply chain policy and management. Climate Change Adaptation and Food Supply Chain Management highlights the issue of adaptation to climate change in food supply chains, the management and policy implications and the importance of supply chain resilience. Attention is given to each phase of the supply chain: input production, agriculture, food processing, retai...

Reimagining Climate Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Reimagining Climate Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments, corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a global challenge. Despite its laudatory intent, the response industry, or ‘Climate Inc.’, is failing. Reimagining Climate Change questions established categories, routines, and practices that presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change and offers alternative routes forward. It does so by unleashing the political imagination. The chapters grasp the larger arc of collective experience, interpret its meaning for ...

Action Research for Climate Change Adaptation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Action Research for Climate Change Adaptation

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  • Published: 2014-12-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Governments all over the world are struggling with the question of how to adapt to climate change. They need information not only about the issue and its possible consequences, but also about feasible governance strategies and instruments to combat it. At the same time, scientists from different social disciplines are trying to understand the dynamics and peculiarities of the governance of climate change adaptation. This book demonstrates how action-oriented research methods can be used to satisfy the need for both policy-relevant information and scientific knowledge. Bringing together eight case studies that show inspiring practices of action research from around the world, including Austra...

Persuasion Strategies: Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and the Development of Activists, 2012–20
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Persuasion Strategies: Canadian Campus Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns and the Development of Activists, 2012–20

Milan Prazak Ilnyckyj's PhD dissertation in Political Science at the University of Toronto

The Role of Women in Technical Education Entrepreneurship, Research and Consultancy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

The Role of Women in Technical Education Entrepreneurship, Research and Consultancy

This book mirrors the impact of education on women’s equality, with special emphasis on technical education, entrepreneurship, research and consultancy. It sheds light on issues of social justice to accord women their rightful place in decision-making. Focus is given to the profound desire of women to forge social partnerships in the contemporary world for better prospects. The book also rests on the premise that women can contribute to prosperity and peace only if they are properly educated, and able to make and implement decisions themselves. The volume will also educate the reader on how women are powerhouses of innovation and creativity, as their contributions in the field of higher education, especially science and technology, have been highly laudable. It will provide the reader with the opportunity to enrich their understanding of how economic freedom is very important for female empowerment, and presents women as partners for economic development.