A WOW! e-Brief

Work of Women program @ World Neighbors

April 2007

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World Neighbors and Climate Change

 

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The resources below, a number of which were utilized in the preparation of this issue brief, are recommended as good sources for further learning on the subject of women and climate change. Unfortunately, few resources are currently available that address climate change from a gendered perspective. The following are a few of the best.

Gender and Development. Vol. 10, no. 2. (July 2002). Published by Taylor and Francis.

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g741921627

This issue of Gender and Development is noteworthy, even though five years old, because of the different ways it looks at the issue of climate change. Abstracts of the articles are available online for review, and you may be able to request this volume as a free online sample issue.

Hartmann, Betsy. (2006, April 3). Gender, Militarism and Climate Change. ZNet Commentary.

http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2006-04/03hartmann.cfm

Duddy, Janice. (n.d.). Is Climate Change a Gender Issue? AWID.

http://www.awid.org/print.php?pg=go.php&args=stid=862

Includes a case study on the Inuit people of Canada.

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The Web site of the British Institute of Development Studies (www.id21.org) collects articles and resources on a range of development issues, recently including climate change. The following are useful abstracts available on their site, along with links to download complete reports.

Tanner, Thomas. (2006). Overcoming the Barriers: Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries. Tearfund Climate Change Briefing Paper. Middlesex, England: IDS.

http://www.id21.org/zinter/id21zinter.exe?a=i&w=s3tt1g1

Smith, D. Mark. (2006). Adapting to Climate Change—How Do Poor People Cope? Abstract of Just One Planet: Poverty, Justice and Climate Change. Rugby, England: Practical Action, Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development.

http://www.id21.org/zinter/id21zinter.exe?a=i&w=s3ms2g1

Links to the IPCC reports, which represent the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of what we know about climate change, are below.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I. (2007, February). Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Summary for Policymakers.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II. (2007, April). Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Summary for Policymakers.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM13apr07.pdf

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III. (2007, May).Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change. Summary for Policymakers.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

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Summaries and elaborations from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change are helpful for their distillation of the important contributions of these reports.

Pew Center on Global Climate Change. (n.d.). Highlights from Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Summary for Policy Makers.

http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/PewSummary%2DIPCCWG2%5F040607%5F150255%2Epdf

Pew Center on Global Climate Change. (n.d.). Highlights from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Summary for Policy Makers.

http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/Pew%20Summary%20of%20IPCC%20WGI%20020207%2Epdf

For more information on the ways that political and business interests have attempted to influence the social debate on climate change, the following links provide an introduction.

NOW. (2005, April 22). Debating “Global Warming.” Science and Health: The Political Climate.

http://www.pbs.org/now/science/climatedebate.html

NOW. (2005). Checking on the Environment. Science and Health: Politics and Science.

http://www.pbs.org/now/science/scienceandpolitics.html

Sample, Ian. (2007, February 2). Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study. The Guardian.

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2004397,00.html

Photos in this issue brief by Natalie Elwell.

 

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