| ID | 137150 |
| Title Proper | Women's human rights in a changing climate |
| Other Title Information | highlighting the distributive effects of climate policies |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bendlin, Lena |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | A women's rights perspective can inform and structure research on climate policy impacts on women. To date, climate policy analysis has mostly considered women as agents of climate protection, that is, objects of mitigation policies, rather than subjects in their own right. However, climate change mitigation involves direct and indirect distributive effects depending on which sectors are involved, which instruments are chosen and how funds are obtained and allocated. Since gender roles impact on individual livelihoods and activities, distributive effects are likely to be gendered. This paper suggests that women's human rights can be used as a framework for research aiming to fill this gap. They provide a well-developed, tested range of criteria for gender justice. Such assessments would allow for a more systematic and comprehensive understanding of the gendered distributive effects of climate policies, notably with regard to the particularly understudied situation in the industrialized world. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol.27, No.4; Dec.2014: p.680-698 |
| Journal Source | Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol: 27 No 4 |
| Key Words | Human Rights ; Climate Change ; Environmental politics ; Climate Policy ; Gender Politics ; Gender Justice ; Climate Policies ; Women's Human Rights ; Mitigation Policies |