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    BRIDGE Occasional paper: Gender and Climate Change: Mapping the Linkages - A Scoping Study on Knowledge and Gaps

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The issue of climate change is not new, but its take-up as a key development concern is a fairly recent departure. Even more recent is the integration of a gender-sensitive perspective in climate change research and responses.
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    Senegal: Role of Women in a Model of Community Management of Fish Resources and Marine Environments, Cayar

    Gender and Water Alliance, 2006
    In most cases, women are not involved in the planning, development or management of marine and coastal resources. Integrating women's and men's usage of these resources into the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) increases the chance of both women and men participating in and benefiting from the MPA.
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    "We Know What We Need!" South Asian Women Speak Out On Climate Change Adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal are struggling to protect their lives, homes, assets and livelihoods from weather-related hazards caused by climate change. Nevertheless, women are not passive victims of climate change. This report presents field research conducted in the Ganga river basin in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, with poor women in rural areas.
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    Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medicinal knowledge

    The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007
    Trade in medicinal and aromatic plants is big business. How can Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect female practitioners of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge (TMK)?
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    The Role of Women in Water Management and Conservation in Jordan

    Gender and Water Alliance, 2006
    To what extent are Jordanian women currently participating in water management and conservation projects? This document provides an overview of various natural resource management projects in which women have or have not had significant involvement, and discusses their successes and failures.
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    Capacity Building for Gender-Sensitive Agricultural Extension Planning in Ethiopia

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2000
    Ethiopia is working to increase its agricultural productivity. One way to achieve this is to ensure that women and men involved in agriculture have access to farming advice and support.
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    The Force of the Current: Watershed Management with Gender Equity

    Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia Del Agua, 2004
    Why is it important to mainstream gender in watershed management? Watersheds are areas constituted by a water system through which water flows and drains. The subject of gender in conservation as well as in the sustainable use of biodiversity has not been addressed by either the organisations seeking to promote a more equitable world for women and men, or environmentalist groups.
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    Mainstreaming Gender into the Climate Change Regime (COP10)

    Genanet, 2004
    The United Nations (UN) is formally committed to gender mainstreaming within all UN policies and programmes. Many people, however, find it difficult to understand why gender might be a factor in climate change or how it should be addressed.
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    Gender Analysis of Environmental Change in Developing Countries

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 1997
    Much attention has been paid to the relationship between poverty and environmental degradation but little of it from a gender perspective. Community environmental initiatives in particular have clear gender implications, as women and men interact with the local environment in different ways according to their community's social norms.
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    Gender and Climate Change: Editorial

    Routledge, 2002
    Gender issues are rarely addressed in climate change debates and initiatives. The international response to climate change has largely focused on scientific and technological measures to tackle climate change, with less attention being given to the social implications of climate change for poor men and women.

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