Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0367544180 ISBN 13 : 9780367544188

Editeur : Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book reveals how intersecting social dimensions of climate change-people, processes, and institutions-give rise to different experiences of loss, adaptation, and resilience among those living in rural and resource contexts of the Global North.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Amber J. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Studies and Academic Director of the Community Engagement and Research Centre at the University of Regina, Canada. Her research examines how gender and social inequality affect the lived experience of climate disaster in rural and Indigenous communities of the Canadian Prairies. In 2017, she edited the book Women in Agriculture Worldwide with Dr Wendee Kubik. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme and as an official delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She is a contributing author to a 2019 special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is former President of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. She holds two medals from the Governor General of Canada for her research and advocacy on gender equality in Canada. In 2020 she was the Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Maureen G. Reed is Distinguished Professor and a UNESCO Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation, and Renewal at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research programme focuses on the social dimensions of sustainability--how people, processes, and institutions shape decisions about environment and development. She has received many awards for her work, including the Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography; the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award; the YWCA-Saskatoon Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Graduate Supervisor Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367544180
• ISBN 13: 9780367544188
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 218
• Éditeur: Fletcher Amber J., Reed Maureen G.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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