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Women and Climate Change: Vulnerabilities and Challenges

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Climate Change and Human Well-Being

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This chapter aims to illustrate how socially constructed gender roles contribute to the vulnerability of women to climate change, mainly those 70% who constitute the world’s poor, and then to consider how adapting to climate change challenges women to take leadership in their communities, thus contributing to the realigning of relationships of inequality.

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  1. Earth and Peace Education International (EPE), Rego Park, NY, USA

    Anita L. Wenden

  2. NGO/CSW Subcommittee on Women and Climate Change, New York, NY, USA

    Anita L. Wenden

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Wenden, A.L. (2011). Women and Climate Change: Vulnerabilities and Challenges. In: Weissbecker, I. (eds) Climate Change and Human Well-Being. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9742-5_7

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