Water Insecurity in Disaster and Climate Change Contexts

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette P. Resurrección
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Heavy Precipitation ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Water Insecurity ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
Dry Spells ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

This chapter applies a feminist political ecology lens to episodes of climate change-related water insecurity in three Southeast Asian peri-urban area sites affected by flooding, water shortages, and pollution induced by long dry spells and heavy precipitation. It presents highlights from a 3-year research project that examined the everyday lives of women as they “deal with water” in the context of increasing water pollution, water scarcity, and flooding compounded by neoliberal socioeconomic conditions. These accounts illustrate how in water- and climate-change contexts, the neoliberal logics of privatization, commercialization, and reified separation between “the natural” and “the social” engage closely with emotions and intersectional gender subjectivities. The use of a feminist political ecology lens offers more holistic and grounded ways of probing into people’s experiences of climate-related water insecurity and stresses, aspects of which are often missed: gendered violence, hierarchies of place, affect, and insecurity in everyday life.

scholarly journals Climate Change Adaptation and Gender Inequality: Insights from Rural Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Ylipaa ◽  
Sara Gabrielsson ◽  
Anne Jerneck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology

Vietnam is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially from extreme weather events such as storms and floods. Thus, climate change adaptation is crucial, especially for natural resource-dependent farmers. Based on a qualitative research approach using a feminist political ecology lens, this article investigates gendered patterns of rural agrarian livelihoods and climate adaptation in the province of Thái Bình. In doing so, we identify differentiated rights and responsibilities between female and male farmers, leading to unequal opportunities and immobility for females, making them more vulnerable to climate impacts and threatening to reduce their capacity to adapt. This research also shows that demands on farmers to contribute to perpetual increases in agricultural output by the state poses a challenge, since farming livelihoods in Vietnam are increasingly becoming feminised, as a result of urbanisation and devaluation of farming. Past and present national strategies and provincial implementation plans linked to climate change do not consider the burden affecting rural female farmers, instead the focus lies on addressing technical solutions to adaptation. With little attention being paid to an increasingly female workforce, existing gender inequalities may be exacerbated, threatening the future existence of rural livelihoods and the viability of Vietnam’s expansion into global markets.

scholarly journals UM BREVE ESTUDO COMPARATIVO ENTRE AS ENERGIAS EÓLICA E NUCLEAR

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Tarcísio Santos Flores
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Domestic Demand ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Globalized World

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2179460X18494It is apparent the human need to use electricity in the current globalized world. And along with the social and industrial and beyond the everyday comfort evolution came the abuse of power. Aware that Brazil is used as an energy source originating from hydroelectric and that it does not include all domestic demand, should be studied energy sources that can assist it. Two clean and cheap energy alternatives which can contribute to reducing the environmental impacts such as global warming and water shortages are wind and nuclear energy. Which again, exhibit ideal characteristics to serve as alternative sources for electricity production, mainly in the dry season.

Green and Redd? Towards a Political Ecology of Deforestation in Aceh, Indonesia

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Forest Conversion ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Carbon Networks ◽  
New Form

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) programme is poised to radically restructure forest management and politics. The programme will eventually provide $30 billion a year in grant and market finance to prevent carbon emissions caused by forest conversion in non-Annex 1 countries. As a consequence new carbon networks involving investment agencies, carbon traders, government departments and NGOs are forming to profit from the programme. This paper analyses the ongoing evolution of REDD from four perspectives drawn from political ecology – classic political ecology, eco-governmentality, eco-dependence, and environmental justice. I argue that both the dominant global managerialist perspective, that sees REDD as an apolitical technical and programmatic challenge, and the oppositional populist response, that sees REDD as a form of neo-liberal expansionism infringing on forest people's rights, gloss over the importance of place. Drawing from the experiences of two advanced REDD pilot projects located in the Indonesian province of Aceh, I explore the particularities of place in shaping how REDD is unfolding. Rather than rejecting, or uncritically accepting, this new form of green neo-liberalism I argue for more contextualised responses that maximise the social and environmental gains that can be made, while also highlighting the negativities involved.

Unwrapping the Memory Box

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 375-394
Author(s):  
Sajal Roy ◽  
Habib Zafarullah ◽  
Arunima Kishore Das
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
South West ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sundarbans

Abstract The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, has been undergoing significant ecological changes due to climate change-related weather events since the late 1990s. This forest, situated in south-west Bangladesh, provides livelihood services to 3.5 million people. The livelihood provision of the Sundarbans forest has been invented due to climate-induced disasters, such as cyclones, sea-level rise, salinisation, heat waves, and flooding. Considering the impacts of cyclones Aila and Sidr, this autoethnographic study closely examines the long-established perceptions of women and men about the resources of the Sundarbans. While doing so, this study uses feminist political ecology as a theoretical framework. This study examines how these two cyclones transformed lives and gendered livelihoods of the villagers of Shora in the Sundarbans forest.

Defensoras ambientales en lucha contra la violencia mediante la no violencia

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Dalena Tran
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Online Database ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Industrial Projects

Extractive and industrial projects forcefully take and exploit land and resources, putting the vulnerable communities depending on them in danger. Women environmental defenders are mobilizing around the world as among the most affected and undervalued protagonists. However, they are facing widespread violence and even murder for their resistance against the multinational corporations typically responsible for such harm and repression. This article summarizes previous work based on the EJAtlas, an online database of environmental conflicts. A feminist political ecology analysis of EJAtlas cases shows how violent repression is gendered, which affects diverse women differently depending on their unique circumstances and identities. Their various experiences of gendered violence influence their distinctly nonviolent mobilization strategies. This could have important implications for countering violent hegemonies.

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