Women and Climate Change Impacts and Action in Canada: Feminist, Indigenous and Intersectional Perspectives

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Lewis
dc.contributor.authorFletcher, Amber
dc.contributor.authorHanson, Cindy
dc.contributor.authorNeapole, Jackie
dc.contributor.authorPollack, Marion
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-21T14:15:11Z
dc.date.available2022-03-21T14:15:11Z
dc.date.issued2018-02
dc.description.abstractThe report was produced through a collaboration of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women and the Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience, with funding from Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Climate Change (ACW) and its predecessor project, Work in a Warming World (W3). The researchers found that women face a double threat from social-economic barriers that leave them bearing the brunt of climate change impacts, while being denied a role in developing policies and programs to mitigate climate change - the example given is employment in renewable energy, where women are underrepresented globally. The report points out that the need for women to be acknowledged as agents of change.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAdapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39434
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAdapting Canadian Work and Workplaces (ACW)
dc.publisherCanadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
dc.publisherAlliance for Intergenerational Resilience
dc.rights.articlehttps://digital.library.yorku.ca/islandora/object/yul:1127520/datastream/OBJ/download
dc.rights.journalhttps://www.criaw-icref.ca/images/userfiles/files/Women%20and%20Climate%20Change_FINAL.pdf
dc.rights.licenseCopyright remains with the creator.
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subjectIndigenous issues
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectRenewable energy
dc.titleWomen and Climate Change Impacts and Action in Canada: Feminist, Indigenous and Intersectional Perspectivesen
dc.typeReport

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
yul1127520_Williams_et_al_2018_Women-and-Climate-Change.pdf
Size:
858.64 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Adapting Canadian Work and Workplaces to Respond to Climate Change (ACW), 2014-2021

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.