Gender and the Global Climate Crisis by Lise Storm - 9781009767613

Name: Gender and the Global Climate Crisis by Lise Storm - 9781009767613
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Gender and the Global Climate CrisisWomen's Voices, Representation and Activism in the Middle East and North Africa\nAuthor(s): Lise Storm\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009767613, 978-1009767613\nSynopsis\nThere is overwhelming evidence that the impacts of climate change are gender-differentiated and that women are the most negatively affected. Drawing on interviews with nearly 100 female activists and politicians from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia and Palestine, Lise Storm explores the implications of unequal female political representation for the climate crisis. Storm considers the voices of the women who are, or have been, involved in politics at the highest level. These women have experience with running for election, gender quotas, party politics, portfolio allocation, policymaking, agenda setting and other such political dynamics and processes re.