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Sustainable development through a gendered lens: climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

  • Nancy D. Lewis EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 4. März 2016
Reviews on Environmental Health
Aus der Zeitschrift Reviews on Environmental Health Band 31 Heft 1

Abstract

The UN General Assembly has just adopted the post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda articulated in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving the SDGs will be furthered by the closer integration of the climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) agendas. Gender provides us a valuable portal for considering this integration. Acknowledging that gender relaters to both women and men and that men and women experience climate variability and disasters differently, in this paper the role of women in both CCA and DRR is explored, shifting the focus from women as vulnerable victims to women as critical agents for change with respect to climate change mitigation and adaptation and reduction of disaster risks. Appropriately targeted interventions can also empower women and contribute to more just and inclusive sustainable development.

Keywords: agents of change; gender; sustainable development goals; vulnerability; women
Corresponding author: Nancy D. Lewis, Director, Research Program, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848-1601, USA, Phone: +(808) 944-7245, Fax: +(808) 944-7399, E-mail:

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Received: 2015-12-16
Accepted: 2015-12-22
Published Online: 2016-03-04
Published in Print: 2016-03-01

©2016 by De Gruyter

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https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2015-0077
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
agents of change; gender; sustainable development goals; vulnerability; women

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Traditional and emerging environmental hazards in South-East Asia: double-trouble in the 21st century
  4. A quarter century of the Pacific Basin Consortium: looking back to move forward
  5. Exposure to Metals
  6. Arsenic projects in SE Asia
  7. Lead exposure from battery recycling in Indonesia
  8. Connecting mercury science to policy: from sources to seafood
  9. Mercury exposure in the work place and human health: dental amalgam use in dentistry at dental teaching institutions and private dental clinics in selected cities of Pakistan
  10. Protecting health from metal exposures in drinking water
  11. Exposure assessment of lead from food and airborne dusts and biomonitoring in pregnant mothers, their fetus and siblings in Karachi, Pakistan and Shimotsuke, Japan
  12. Mining
  13. Reconciling PM10 analyses by different sampling methods for Iron King Mine tailings dust
  14. The “CHILD” framework for the study of artisanal mercury mining communities
  15. Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas: impact on health and environment
  16. Hazardous Waste
  17. Searching bioremediation patents through Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
  18. Proteomics of Sphingobium indicum B90A for a deeper understanding of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) bioremediation
  19. Novel industrial wastewater treatment integrated with recovery of water and salt under a zero liquid discharge concept
  20. Water
  21. Connecting science with industry: lessons learned transferring a novel plasmonic mercury sensor from the bench to the field
  22. Pilot-scale UV/H2O2 study for emerging organic contaminants decomposition
  23. Nanotechnology: a clean and sustainable technology for the degradation of pharmaceuticals present in water and wastewater
  24. Solar-driven membrane distillation demonstration in Leupp, Arizona
  25. What works in water supply and sanitation projects in developing countries with EWB-USA
  26. Natural Disasters and a Changing Environment
  27. Environmental exposures due to natural disasters
  28. Changing exposures in a changing world: models for reducing the burden of disease
  29. Sustainable development through a gendered lens: climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
  30. Environmental Justice and Human Rights
  31. Creating healthy and just bioregions
  32. Worm-free children: an integrated approach to reduction of soil-transmitted helminth infections in Central Java
  33. Diabetes in Native Americans: elevated risk as a result of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
  34. Pollution, health and development: the need for a new paradigm
  35. EcoSystem
  36. Pacific connections for health, ecosystems and society: new approaches to the land-water-health nexus
  37. Exposure to e-waste
  38. E-waste: the growing global problem and next steps
  39. Global challenges for e-waste management: the societal implications
  40. E-waste issues in Sri Lanka and the Basel Convention
  41. E-waste interventions in Ghana
  42. CALUX bioassay: a cost-effective rapid screening technique for screening dioxins like compounds
  43. Cancer
  44. Cancer surveillance and research on environmental contributions to cancer
  45. Domestic incense use and lung cancer in Asia: a review
  46. Children
  47. Inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in the South Pacific: how might it be impacting children?
  48. Children’s environmental health indicators in Australia: are we collecting the right information?
  49. Community-based efforts in health promotion in indigenous villages on the Thailand-Myanmar border
  50. Emerging issues
  51. Bayesian networks in infectious disease eco-epidemiology
  52. Health co-benefits in mortality avoidance from implementation of the mass rapid transit (MRT) system in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  53. Particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) personal exposure evaluation on mechanics and administrative officers at the motor vehicle testing center at Pulo Gadung, DKI Jakarta
  54. Life cycle assessment of dairy farms
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