Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, public policy and action

Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries- Front Cover
Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I: Context and overview
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why gender matters when dealing with climate change
	Gender analysis in rich countries
	The book
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: Masculinities of global climate change: Exploring ecomodern, industrial and ecological masculinity
	Introduction
	Making masculinities visible in climate change politics
	Ecomodern masculinity
	Industrial masculinity
	Ecological masculinity
	Discussion: Masculinities in a fossil fuel burning world
	References
Chapter 3: It’s not just the numbers: Challenging masculinist working practices in climate change decision-making in UK government and environmental non-governmental organizations
	Introduction
	Gender mainstreaming
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
PART II: Challenges for paid and unpaid work
Chapter 4: Women and low energy construction in Europe:
A new opportunity?
	Introduction: Meeting energy targets
	Women in construction
	VET transformation
	Labour process transformation
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: Renewable inequity? Women’s employment in clean energy in industrialized, emerging and developing economies
	Introduction
	A global summary of women’s employment in RE
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: UK environmental and trade union groups’ struggles to integrate gender issues into climate change analysis and activism
	Introduction and methodology
	UK trade unions’ grey literature on gender and climate change
	UK environmental groups’ grey literature on gender and climate change
	Academic literature on gender, climate change in UK trade unions and environmental groups
	Interviews with feminist activists in UK trade unions and environmental groups
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Transporting difference at work: Taking gendered intersectionality seriously in climate change agendas
	Introduction
	Why transportation and gender matter in work and climate change debates
	Intersecting gender and transportation through a climate change lens
	Conclusions: Policy and planning considerations
	References
Chapter 8: The US example of integrating gender and climate change in training: Response to the 2008–9 recession
	Women in green sectors and jobs
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
PART III: Vulnerability, insecurity and work
Chapter 9: Gendered outcomes in post-disaster sites:
Public policy and resource distribution
	Introduction
	Examples from the Black Saturday fires
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Climate change, traditional roles and work: Interactions in the Inuit Nunangat
	Introduction
	Climate change in the Arctic: Symptoms
	The Inuit
	Gender and work in the Nunangat
	Climate change, gender, and work
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: Towards humane jobs: Recognizing gendered and multispecies intersections and possibilities
	Introduction
	Industrial agriculture, labour and climate change
	Acknowledgements
	References
PART IV: Rural and resource communities
Chapter 12: “Maybe tomorrow will be better”:
Gender and farm work in a changing climate
	Introduction
	Climate change in the Canadian prairies
	Gendering climate change
	Conclusion: At the crossroads of gender, work and climate
	Acknowledgments
	References
Chapter 13: Understanding the gendered labours of adaptation to climate
change in forest-based communities through different
models of analysis
	Introduction
	Research gaps
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Note
	References
Chapter 14: The complex impacts of intensive resource extraction
on women, children and Aboriginal peoples: Towards
contextually-informed approaches to climate
change and health
	Introduction
	Background: Unconventional natural gas development in northern British Columbia
	Conclusion
	References
PART V: Public policy and activism
Chapter 15: How a gendered understanding of climate change can help
shape Canadian climate policy
	Background
	Ensuring the engagement of women in climate policy development
	A gender perspective on Canadian climate regulations
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 16: The integration of gender in climate change mitigation and adaptation in Québec: Silos and possibilities
	Introduction
	Methodology
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 17: Urban form through the lens of gender relations and climate change: Cases from North America and Europe
	Introduction
	Gender, climate change and urban form
	Comparing Canada and Spain
	Conclusion and moving forward
	Note
	References
Chapter 18: Canadian Indigenous female leadership and political agency on climate change
	Introduction
	Extraction, environmental justice and Indigenous women’s leadership
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 19: Using information about gender and climate change to inform green economic policies
	Introduction
	Concepts of green jobs and a green economy
	Green economy
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Index