title: Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change.
abstract: The main goal of this special issue is to offer a room for interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change (GEC), where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways. In this editorial paper, we explain the background setting, key questions and core approaches of gender and feminist research in vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to GEC. Highlighting the interlinkages between gender and GEC, we introduce the main contributions of the collection of 11 papers in this special issue. Nine empirical papers from around the globe allow to understand how gendered diversity in knowledge, institutions and everyday practices matters in producing barriers and options for achieving resilience and adaptive capacity in societies. Additionally, two papers contribute to the theoretical debate through a systematic review and an insight on the relevance of intersectional framings within GEC research and development programming.
authors.affiliation: ICAAM - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, LDSP - Landscape Dynamics and Social Process Research Group, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7002-554, Évora, Portugal. federica.ravera@gmail.com.|CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Catalonia, Spain. federica.ravera@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ravera
authors.affiliation: Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Calle Darwin nº2, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Iniesta-Arandia
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sustainability, Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Berta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martín-López
authors.affiliation: Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Edificio Sede Nº 1, Planta 1ª, Parque Científico de UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena, 48940, Leioa, Spain.|IKERBASQUE, Basque Science Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 3, 6 floor, 48013, Bilbao, Spain.|Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver St., Cambridge, CB3 9EP, UK.
authors.forename: Unai
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pascual
authors.affiliation: Consultant within Indigenous Peoples team of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 416 Sai Section, Ambernath, Mumbai, 421501, India.
authors.forename: Purabi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bose
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D057231:Climate Change; D004777:Environment; D019513:Feminism; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research
keywords: Climate change; Feminist environmentalism; Gender research; Intersectionality; Sustainability