Towards a gender-sensitive adaptation to climate change

• Climate change and adaptation to climate change tend tohave disproportionally negative impacts on women. Given that existing vulnerabilities and inequalities commonly are reproduced through adaptation, adaptation planning should be considered a political process. Justice as well as pragmatic reasons require that gender concernsare addressed in adaptation planning, but currently there are few suggestions for how this should be done in practice. In this paper, it issuggested that three objectives that need to be fulfilled to achieve agender-sensitive adaptation are: inclusive processes, just outcomes, and transformational change. Gender impact assessments (GIA) offer an established approach for evaluating policy and planning but falls shortwhen it comes to accounting for uncertain future developments thatadaptation policy ought to consider. A method called value-sensitive scenario planning (VSSP) is proposed as a possible approach for addressing gender concerns in long-term adaptation planning. It is argued that VSSP has potential to further inclusive processes and just outcomes, but does not necessarily facilitate much-needed transformational change. However, it is a promising start towards a gender-sensitive adaptation planning. 

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HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Etik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Ethics (hsv//eng)

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