Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries

Work, Public Policy and Action

• Author(s): Marjorie Griffin Cohen,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 342
• ISBN_10: 1315407892
  ISBN_13: 9781315407890
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Labor / General , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development , Nature / Ecology , Political Science / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy , Science / Environmental Science , Science / Global Warming & Climate Change , Social Science / Gender Studies , Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General ,

Description:... Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries- Front Cover -- Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Context and overview -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why gender matters when dealing with climate change -- Gender analysis in rich countries -- The book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Masculinities of global climate change: Exploring ecomodern, industrial and ecological masculinity -- Introduction -- Making masculinities visible in climate change politics -- Ecomodern masculinity -- Industrial masculinity -- Ecological masculinity -- Discussion: Masculinities in a fossil fuel burning world -- References -- Chapter 3: It's not just the numbers: Challenging masculinist working practices in climate change decision-making in UK government and environmental non-governmental organizations -- Introduction -- Gender mainstreaming -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Challenges for paid and unpaid work -- Chapter 4: Women and low energy construction in Europe: A new opportunity? -- Introduction: Meeting energy targets -- Women in construction -- VET transformation -- Labour process transformation -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Renewable inequity? Women's employment in clean energy in industrialized, emerging and developing economies -- Introduction -- A global summary of women's employment in RE -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: UK environmental and trade union groups' struggles to integrate gender issues into climate change analysis and activism -- Introduction and methodology -- UK trade unions' grey literature on gender and climate change -- UK environmental groups' grey literature on gender and climate change.