Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change

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The main goal of this special issue is to offer a room for interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change (GEC), where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways. In this editorial paper, we explain the background setting, key questions and core approaches of gender and feminist research in vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to GEC. Highlighting the interlinkages between gender and GEC, we introduce the main contributions of the collection of 11 papers in this special issue. Nine empirical papers from around the globe allow to understand how gendered diversity in knowledge, institutions and everyday practices matters in producing barriers and options for achieving resilience and adaptive capacity in societies. Additionally, two papers contribute to the theoretical debate through a systematic review and an insight on the relevance of intersectional framings within GEC research and development programming.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAmbio
Volume45
Issue number3, Supplement
Pages (from-to)235-247
Number of pages13
ISSN0044-7447
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2016

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The guest editors want to thank Bo Söderström, editor in chief of Ambio for his support and dedication along the process of preparation of this special issue. We thank Houria Djoudi and Isabel Díaz-Reviriego for their comments in earlier versions of this article. We also want to acknowledge all the reviewers for their commitment and careful work contributing with their comments and suggestions to improve the quality of this collection of articles. Specifically, we thank (in alphabetical order)—Isabel Díaz-Reviriego: University Autonomous of Barcelona; Sikhalazo Dube: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; María E. Fernández-Giménez: Colorado State University; Luis Garcia Barrios: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur; Anne-Marie Hanson: University of Illinois; Ellen Hillbom: Lund University; Janice Jiggins: Wageningen University; Anna Kaijser: Lund University; Gun Lidestav: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Ann Oberhauser: Iowa State University; Monica Ogra: Gettysburg College; Gunilla A. Olsson: University of Gothenburg; Elisa Oteros-Rozas: Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla and University of Copenhagen; Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque: Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco; Carol J. Pierce Colfer: Center for International Forestry Research; Camilla Risvoll: Nordland Research Institute; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen: University of Lapland; Fraser Sugden: International Water Management Institute; Jennifer Twyman: International Center for Tropical Agriculture; Hailey Wilmer: Colorado State University; Antoinette Winkler Prins: Johns Hopkins University; Mastewal Yami: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Funding for the dedication of Federica Ravera to this special issue was provided by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal. Additional funding and organizational support from the Basque Centre for Climate Change, Leuphana University and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid are also acknowledged.

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