Gender and Climate Justice in Canada: Stories from the Grassroots
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 widespread economic and social impacts. Fossil fuel extraction, transport,...
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ftyorkuniv:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/37501 2023-05-15T16:37:39+02:00 Gender and Climate Justice in Canada: Stories from the Grassroots Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie) 2017-07 application/pdf https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37501 en eng Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Gender and Climate Justice in Canada: Stories from the Grassroots , research report supported by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37501 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC-BY-NC-ND climate change climate justice gender public participation environmental education women and work green community development intersectionality international equity income distribution labour unions civil society engagement climate change adaptation Preprint 2017 ftyorkuniv 2022-08-22T13:02:47Z 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 widespread economic and social impacts. Fossil fuel extraction, transport, and processing affect many people in Canada. Women and men have different experiences and views regarding climate change, and are affected differently as a function of their gendered social and economic positions. They also have different access to redress and to policy processes shaping public responses. Indigenous women, in particular, are on the front lines of climate injustice and are leading inspiring resistance movements. This paper examines climate justice issues across Canada through a gender lens, using a literature review and interviews with researchers and activists to identify the major themes and knowledge gaps. The paper also summarizes preliminary results of grassroots research into how individuals, community-based organizations, women’s groups and indigenous activists across Canada experience and articulate the gendered impacts of climate change, what their priorities are for action, and how they are organizing -- for example, by incorporating climate change education, outreach, networking, activism, and policy development into their work. Report Ice permafrost Sea ice York University, Toronto: YorkSpace Canada |
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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 widespread economic and social impacts. Fossil fuel extraction, transport, and processing affect many people in Canada. Women and men have different experiences and views regarding climate change, and are affected differently as a function of their gendered social and economic positions. They also have different access to redress and to policy processes shaping public responses. Indigenous women, in particular, are on the front lines of climate injustice and are leading inspiring resistance movements. This paper examines climate justice issues across Canada through a gender lens, using a literature review and interviews with researchers and activists to identify the major themes and knowledge gaps. The paper also summarizes preliminary results of grassroots research into how individuals, community-based organizations, women’s groups and indigenous activists across Canada experience and articulate the gendered impacts of climate change, what their priorities are for action, and how they are organizing -- for example, by incorporating climate change education, outreach, networking, activism, and policy development into their work. |
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Gender and Climate Justice in Canada: Stories from the Grassroots |
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
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