Compounding vulnerability:Impacts of climate change on palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

Mason, M., Zeitoun, M. and Mimi, Z. (2012) Compounding vulnerability:Impacts of climate change on palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Journal of Palestine Studies, 41 (3). pp. 38-53. ISSN 0377-919X

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Abstract

Coping with (and adapting to) climatological hazards is commonly understood in intergovernmental and aid agency fora as a purely technical matter. This article examines the UN Development Programme's stakeholder consultations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to challenge the donor-driven technical-managerial framing of Palestinian climate vulnerability by showing how Israeli occupation practices exacerbate environmental stresses. While emphasizing the importance of social, economic, and political contexts in shaping populations' responses to climate change in general, the authors demonstrate the multiple ways in which the occupation specifically compounds hazards reveals it as constitutive of Palestinian climate vulnerability.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Climate Change
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2013 12:04
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 01:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/44127
DOI: 10.1525/jps.2012.XLI.3.38

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