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  Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2006

  Water plays a pivotal role in economic activity and in human well-being. It is essential to food production and in domestic use (drinking, washing, and cooking). Yet the social relations which determine access to, and use of, water are poorly understood. Conflict over water may have far-reaching consequences on social change.
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  The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia: Gender, Power and Decision-making in Climate Mitigation

  Routledge, 2002

  Since the United Nations Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997 and set legally-binding targets for signatories to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions; forest cultivation has been promoted as an important means to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There has, however, been limited success.
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  Bangladesh: Gender Mainstreaming Processes in Community-based Flood Risk Management, a Case Study from the Gender and IWRM Resource Guide

  Gender and Water Alliance, 2005

  In 2004 the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) in Bangladesh designed and implemented a project on flood vulnerability, risk reduction and improved preparedness through community-based information. Household and community responses to events such as floods are an indicator of vulnerability and of people's ability to cope with hazards.
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  Climate Change and Disaster Mitigation: Gender Makes the Difference

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Gender is absent from the climate change discussions and initiatives which have largely focused on mitigation (e.g. reduction of greenhouse gases) rather than on the adaptation strategies which poor women and men need for their security.
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  Gender Perspectives on the Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification

  2004

  Who pays the price of loss of biodiversity, climate change and desertification? According to the 'Rio Conventions' - the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biodiversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - it is rural populations in poor countries.
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  Climate Change: Learning from Gender Analysis and Women's Experiences of Organising for Sustainable Development

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2002

  Is climate change gender neutral? This article argues that it is not. Gender roles and relations interact with the causes and impacts of climate change in five key areas:- gender-specific resource-use and management patterns that can degrade the environment such as men's higher car and fuel purchasing from male-dominated industries
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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  There has been an increasing ?informalisation? of the labour force in developing countries over the past few decades. This means that increasing numbers of workers are engaged in unregulated, uncontracted work which is often casual or temporary in nature. Simultaneously there has been greater participation of women in the labour market.
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  Social safety nets for women

  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003

  At times of crisis, such as the Asian financial crisis of 1997/8, women often strategise to increase household income, for example by selling goods. Yet, as this paper notes, insufficient attention has been paid to the fact that women are often excluded from formal social safety net programmes.
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  Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands

  Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, 2006

  In many of the world's drylands, women's traditional knowledge of and roles in natural resource management and food security are crucial. Women across the developing world spend considerable proportions of their time using and preserving land for food and fuel production, and for generating income for their families and communities.
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  Report of the Gender and Credit Study in Niger: Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme West Africa

  2004

  This study is one of three studies on gender and fisheries supply chains in Benin, Gambia and Niger. The Niger study was carried out in Tafouka village, 400 kilometres east of the capital city, and included discussions with the fishermen's cooperatives and with women's groups. Fisheries are an important industry in Niger providing a livelihood to about 50 thousand people.

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