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Singh, Chandni, Solomon, Divya and Rao, Nitya 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147
(2021)
How does climate change adaptation policy in India consider gender? An analysis of 28 state action plans.
Climate Policy, 21 (7).
pp. 958-975.
ISSN 1469-3062
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Abstract
Gender mediates climate vulnerability and adaptation action. Consequently, climate change adaptation policy has seen a push towards ‘mainstreaming’ gender and prioritizing ‘gender-responsive’ climate action. However, it is unclear to what extent this mainstreaming advances or obscures gender considerations and whether current climate policies reflect developments in the gender and climate change literature. This paper explores how gender is operationalized in adaptation policy in India through a policy review of 28 State Action Plans on Climate Change. We juxtapose normative goals around reducing differential vulnerability with policy approaches to mainstreaming gender and propose entry points that link advances in gender and feminist studies with climate change adaptation policy. Our analysis indicates that most subnational climate policies in India explicitly mention gender as a mediator of vulnerability and adaptive capacity but operationalize it inadequately and unevenly. We also reflect on how the heuristics of mainstreaming get operationalized in policies (gender-blind, gender-sensitive, to gender-transformative approaches) and what that means for addressing gendered vulnerability.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | climate change,india,adaptation,gender,intersectionality,mainstreaming,global and planetary change,environmental science (miscellaneous),atmospheric science,management, monitoring, policy and law,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2021 01:50 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 12:44 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80658 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14693062.2021.1953434 |
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