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Climate Justice Partnership Linking Universities and Community Organizations in Toronto, Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
(Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, 2012)
This paper describes a project based at York University in Toronto, funded through the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program of the International Development Research Centre and the UK Department for International ...
Women Scholar-Activists Trace Connections Between Colonialism, Capitalism, Injustice and Environmental Decline
(Women and Environmental International, 2019-09)
This issue has been inspired by a path-breaking conference held by the Canadian Society for Ecologi-cal Economics (CANSEE), which took place this past May 2019 in Waterloo, Ontario. Entitled Engaging Economies of Change, ...
Gender Justice and Climate Justice: Building women's economic and political agency in times of climate change
(Women and Environments International, 2015)
This article analyzes some initiatives and models for community-based climate change activism, through examples in three different types of communities. It outlines the methods and results of two international projects- ...
Strengthening the role of civil society in water sector governance towards climate change adaptation in African cities – Durban, Maputo, Nairobi
(2013)
Water resources management is one of the most important climate change-related issues on international, national and urban public policy agendas. Income inequality in South Africa, Mozambique, and Kenya is among the largest ...
Women and water management in times of climate change: participatory and inclusive processes
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013)
This paper focuses on community engagement, and particularly the inclusion of women, in water management as a response to climate change. Addressing water-related problems is central to climate change adaptation, and civil ...
Gender and Climate Justice in Canada: Stories from the Grassroots
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2017-07)
Climate change has gendered effects across Canada. Extreme weather events, warming cities, melting sea ice and permafrost, ice storms, floods, droughts, and fires related to climate change are directly and indirectly causing ...
Climate Justice, Gender, and Intersectionality
(Routledge, 2019)
Women are generally more vulnerable than men to environmental
disasters and extreme weather events due to four main factors, which are related to
women’s gendered roles in society: women are economically disadvantaged ...
Praxis Mapping: A methodology for evaluating the political impacts of international projects
(2012)
This report describes the participatory development of a process we have used to consider the political implications of a climate justice project we worked on together from 2010 to 2013, called Strengthening the role of ...