Gender, environment and climate change: Understanding the linkages

Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 21-54

  Dankelman, Irene ^a   Jansen, Willy ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849775274     Document Type: Chapter

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