Women in selected rural municipalities: Resilience and agency against vulnerabilities to climate change

Agenda

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 102-114

  Meyiwa, Thenjiwe ^a   Maseti, Thandokazi ^b   Ngubane, Sizani ^c   Letsekha, Tebello ^d,f   Rozani, Carina ^e  

^a DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Human Sciences Research Council ^*  (South Africa)

^d HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^e WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^f RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

gender and climate change; policy lessons; resilience; rural women; vulnerabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012970017     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2014.955686     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Berman R, Quinn C & Paavola J (2012) ‘The role of institutions in the transformation of coping capacity to sustainable adaptive capacity’, in Environmental Development, 2, 86–100, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.017, site accessed 2 August 2014.
2. Boetto H & McKinnon J (2013) ‘Rural women and climate Change: A gender-inclusive perspective’, in Australian Social Work, 66, 2, 234–247. doi:10.1080/0312407X.2013.780630
3. Bornman S, Budlender D, Clarke Y, Manoek S, van der Westhuizen C, Watson J, Antunes S & Iqba N (2013) ‘The state of the nation, government priorities and women in South Africa’, Women's Legal Centre, available at: http://www.za.boell.org/downloads/SONA_2013_WLC.pdf, site accessed 10 January 2014.
4. Casale D & Desmond C (2007) ‘The economics of well-being of the family: Households’ access to resources in South Africa, 1995–2003’ in AY Amoaten & TB Heaton (eds) Families and Households in Post-apartheid South Africa: Socio-demographic Perspectives, Cape Town: HSRC Press.
5. Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) (2009) ‘Seminar on Ukuthwala Report: Ukuthwala and its impact on children, Eastern Cape’, Public Protector, SA Human Rights Commission, CGE.
6. Crick F & Vincent K (2010) ‘Processes of adaptation–lessons learned from three case studies of community-based adaptation in Limpopo Province, South Africa’, 2010 National Climate Change Adaptation Conference, available at http://www.nccarf.edu.au/conference2010/wp-content/uploads/Florence-Crick.pdf, site accessed 19 May 2014.
7. Department of Environmental Affairs (2011a) ‘Governance of climate change in South Africa’, available at: http://www.environment.gov.za/sites/default/files/docs/climate_change_governance.pdf, site accessed 19 May, 2014.
8. Department of Environmental Affairs (2011b) National Climate Change Response White Paper, Pretoria, Dept of Environmental Affairs.
9. Doss C, Meinzen-Dick R & Bomuhangi A (2014) ‘Who owns the land? Perspectives from rural Ugandans and implications for large-scale land acquisitions’, in Feminist Economics, 20, 1, 76–100. DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2013.855320
10. Farmer P, Connors M & Simmons L (eds) (1996) Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence, Monroe, United States: Common Courage Press.
11. Gamble JL, Kristie LE, Grambsch AE, Sussman FG & Wilbanks TL (2008) ‘Analyses of the effects of global change on human health and welfare and human systems’, A Report by the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, available at:http://www.globalchange.gov/browse/reports/sap-46-analyses-effects-global-change-human-health-and-welfare-and-human-systems, site accessed 17 May 2014.
12. Govender K (2012) ‘Empowering the rural woman’, available at: http://oldsanews.gcis.gov.za/rss/12/12030709251001, site accessed 13 January 2014.
13. Gupta J, Termeer CJAM, Klostermann J, Meijermink S, van den Brink M, Jong P, Nooteboom SG & Bergsma E (2010) ‘The adaptive capacity wheel: A method to assess the inherent characteristics of institutions to enable the adaptive capacity of society’, in Environmental Science & Policy, 13, 6, 459–471. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.05.006
14. Handmer JW, Dovers S & Downing T (1999) ‘Societal vulnerability to climate change and variability’, in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 4, 3, 267–281. doi:10.1023/A:1009611621048
15. Hill C (2011) ‘Enabling rural women's economic empowerment: Institutions, opportunities, and participation’, available at: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw56/egm/Hill-BP-1-EGM-RW-Sep-2011_CH.pdf, site accessed 30 November 2013.
16. Klein RJT & Donald CM (1999) ‘Adaptation to climate change variability and change: methodological issues’, in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 4, 189–198. doi:10.1023/A:1009690729283
17. Law Reform Commission (2014) ‘The practice of ukuthwala’, Unpublished Discussion Paper, Pretoria: Law Reform Commission.
18. Maluleke MJ (2012) ‘Culture, tradition, custom, law and gender equality’, in Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal ER, 15, 1, 428–450.
19. Mandela N (1995) A Long Walk to Freedom. London: Little, Brown and Company.
20. McGray H, Hamm A, Bradley R, Schipper E & Parry J (2012) ‘Weathering the storm: Options for farming adaptation and development’, World Resources Institute, available at: http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/resourcedatabase/WRI%20Weathering%20the%20Storm%20Exec%20Summary.pdf, site accessed 19 May 2014.
21. Meyiwa T (2014) ‘Fragile families’ experiences of caring for HIV positive children: Selected cases from the Eastern Cape and KZN’ in V Reddy, S Meyer, T Shefer & T Meyiwa (eds) Care in Context: Transnational Gender Perspectives, Cape Town: HSRC Press.
22. Nkosi M (2009) ‘Bride abduction in KwaZulu-Natal schools and its effects on education’, in Agenda, 23, 80, 109–114.
23. Okaba B (2011) ‘Agricultural land management: Capturing synergies between climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and agricultural productivity’, Paper presented at ‘New voices, different perspectives’, Africa Adapt climate change symposium, available at: http://www.africa-adapt.net/, site accessed 9 May 2014.
24. Onyango M (2011) ‘Policy issues in integrating indigenous knowledge in climate risk management to support community based adaptation’, Paper presented at ‘New voices, different perspectives’, Africa Adapt climate change symposium, available at: http://www.africa-adapt.net/, site accessed 9 May 2014.
25. Pielke RAJr (1998) ‘Rethinking the role of adaptation in climate policy’, in Global Environmental Change, 8, 2, 159–170. doi:10.1016/S0959-3780(98)00011-9
26. Pithouse-Morgan K & Van Laren L (2012) ‘Towards academic generativity: Working collaboratively with visual artefacts for self-study and social change’, in South African Journal of Education, 32, 4, 416–427.
27. Reid PD & Vogel R (2006) ‘Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa: Glimpses from KwaZulu-Natal’, in Global Environmental Change, 16, 195–206. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.01.003
28. Samaras AP (2011) Self-study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
29. Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) (2012) ‘Census 2011.Statistical release’, Statistics South Africa, available at: www.statssa.gov.za, site accessed 30 November 2013.
30. United Nations (UN) Women Watch (2009) ‘Women, gender equality and climate change’, available at: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/climate_change/, site accessed 10 January 2014.
31. van der Watt M & Ovens M (2012) ‘Contextualizing the practice of ukuthwala within South Africa’, in Child Abuse Research A South African Journal, 13, 1, 11–26.
32. Verma R (2014) ‘Land grabs, power, and gender in East and Southern Africa: So, what's new?’, in Feminist Economics, 20,1, 52–75. doi:10.1080/13545701.2014.897739