Cited by 145Climate change impacts on agricultureGender, Education, and Development IssuesSustainability and Climate Change Governance

Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings

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Thompson-Hall, Mary, Carr, Edward R., Pascual, Unai·2016·Ambio

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Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of 'men' and 'women' as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of diverse identity categories, including but not limited to gender, age, seniority, ethnicity, marital status, and livelihoods. Here, we provide a review of relevant literature on this topic and argue that approaching vulnerability to climate change through intersectional understandings of identity can help improve adaptation programming, project design, implementation, and outcomes.

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  • Most studies on intersectionality in climate change focus on agrarian settings in the Global South, for example access to secure land for women farmers in India, Ghana and South Asia.

    “However, most of these studies focus on agrarian settings in the Global South (Carr and Thompson, 2014;Thompson-Hall et al., 2016), for example access to secure land for women farmers in India (Ravera et al., 2016b), Ghana (Lawson et al., 2020) and South Asia (Sultana, 2014).”

    From Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity (2022) · cites this paper as Thompson-Hall et al., 2016

    The Introduction and ‘Gender and adaption programming’ section focus on adaptation in agrarian settings in the Global South, and the latter discusses gendered inequalities in land access and tenure. But the paper does not say that most intersectionality studies in climate change focus there; its Discussion instead describes the application of intersectional approaches to social–ecological research as thin. The India, Ghana and South Asia examples have separate citations in the citing sentence, so they are not assessed against this source. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  1. Carr, E. R., and M. C. Thompson. 2013. Gender and climate change adaptation in agrarian settings. Report prepared for the United States Agency for International Development. pp. 76.

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Authors
Thompson-Hall, M., Carr, E. R., & Pascual, U.
Affiliations
  • Clark University (US)
  • Ikerbasque (ES)
Corresponding author
Pascual, Unai
Venue
Ambio
Published
2016-11-22
Volume
45
Issue
S3
Pages
373-382
ISSN
  • 0044-7447 (ISSN-L)
  • 1654-7209
OpenAlex
W2549794930
Cited by
145
References
80
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 27 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2
FWCI
7.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • AMBIO (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Clark Digital Commons (Clark University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Social Sciences › Education › Gender, Education, and Development Issues
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Keywords
intersectionality, climate change adaptation, farmer livelihoods, gender, vulnerability, resilience, identity categories
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Agriculture, Developing Countries, Female, Gender Identity, Humans, Male, Research, Climate Change

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