Gender, development, and rights-based approaches: Lessons for climate change adaptation and adaptive social protection

Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 95-108

  Bee, Beth ^a   Biermann, Maureen ^b   Tschakert, Petra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Gender; Justice; Rights based approaches; Social protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896857870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5518-5_7     Document Type: Chapter

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