Himanshu Sekhar Rout, Pragyan Patnaik.
Gender dimensions of climate change.
Pak J Public Health Jan ;3(1):51-9.

Climate change is not gender neutral, but gender responsive. Women’s historic disadvantages—their limited access to resources, restricted rights, and a muted voice in shaping decisions—make them highly vulnerable to climate change. Addressing the threat of climate change is a current global priority and there are important gender perspectives in all aspects of climate change, the paper outlines key linkages between climate change and gender focusing on adaptation and mitigation policies and practices. It emphasizes the need to include women in developing and implementing mitigation strategies, both to ensure their full participation in these processes and their effectiveness in addressing the ‘bigger picture’ of climate change and its human impacts. The paper suggests some practical steps required to achieve more equitable, appropriate climate change policies and programmes in gender lens. The paper has six sections. Section II reviews the relevant literature on gender and climate change. The links between gender and environment are explained in section III. Section IV analyses the gender dimensions of climate change. The strategies to mitigate climate change effects on gender are explained in section V. The last section recommends three pronged approach to tackle climate change and reduce its adverse effects.

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