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How is gender investigated in African climate change research? A systematic review of the literature
- Source :
- Ambio
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- This systematic review analyzes all 260 studies published in the Web of Science on gender and climate change in Africa. While there is no strong methodological bias, comparative case studies and sex disaggregated analyses predominate from a limited set of countries. Many articles covered the agrarian sector by comparing women’s and men’s on-farm vulnerability to a changing climate based on their adaptation behaviours. Though this literature recognizes women’s important conservation, farming, and food responsibilities, it oftentimes generalized these contributions without providing evidence. A number of themes were covered by a very limited number of articles, including coastal areas, conflict, education, energy, migration, urban areas, and water. Overall, more justice-oriented research is needed into the socioeconomic structures that intersect with social identities to make certain people, places, and institutions more vulnerable. Investigations into the power dynamics between (social) scientists and African institutions are also needed as most articles reviewed stem from North America and Europe and are locked beyond paywalls. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-021-01631-w.
- Subjects :
- Male
Economic growth
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Climate Change
Comparative case
Geography, Planning and Development
Vulnerability
Climate change
Review
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Gender Role
Political science
Humans
Environmental Chemistry
Social identity theory
Socioeconomic status
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Ecology
business.industry
1. No poverty
Agriculture
General Medicine
Agrarian society
Socioeconomic Factors
Africa
Female
business
Paywall
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16547209 and 00447447
- Volume :
- 51
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ambio
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b64919de119d22af171fe70dbb0a9667