title: A synthesis of convergent reflections, tensions and silences in linking gender and global environmental change research.
abstract: This synthesis article joins the authors of the special issue "Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change" in a common reflective dialogue about the main contributions of their papers. In sum, here we reflect on links between gender and feminist approaches to research in adaptation and resilience in global environmental change (GEC). The main theoretical contributions of this special issue are threefold: emphasizing the relevance of power relations in feminist political ecology, bringing the livelihood and intersectionality approaches into GEC, and linking resilience theories and critical feminist research. Empirical insights on key debates in GEC studies are also highlighted from the nine cases analysed, from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. Further, the special issue also contributes to broaden the gender approach in adaptation to GEC by incorporating research sites in the Global North alongside sites from the Global South. This paper examines and compares the main approaches adopted (e.g. qualitative or mixed methods) and the methodological challenges that derive from intersectional perspectives. Finally, key messages for policy agendas and further research are drawn from the common reflection.
authors.affiliation: Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Edificio de Biología, Calle Darwin nº 2, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, C.P. 28049 Madrid, Spain. irene.iniesta@uam.es.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Iniesta-Arandia
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.|CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Catalonia, Spain.
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ravera
authors.affiliation: School of Geography and Development and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, 803 East 1st Street, Tucson, Arizona, 85719, USA.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buechler
authors.affiliation: Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss 5 Open University of Catalonia, 080193, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.|Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Edifici Z ICTA-ICP Carrer de les columnes, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Díaz-Reviriego
authors.affiliation: Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, 1472 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1472, USA.
authors.forename: María E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Fernández-Giménez
authors.affiliation: University of Saskatchewan, 117 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C8, Canada.
authors.forename: Maureen G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.affiliation: International START Secretariat, 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Suite 200, Washington, DC, 20009, USA.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thompson-Hall
authors.affiliation: Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, 1472 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1472, USA.
authors.forename: Hailey
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wilmer
authors.affiliation: Worldfish, West Gyogone, Bayint Naung Road, Insein Township, Yangon, 11181, Myanmar.
authors.forename: Lemlem
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Aregu
authors.affiliation: WorldFish, Jalan Batu Maung, Batu Maung, 11960, Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia.|ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia.
authors.forename: Philippa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: CIFOR, Centre for International Forestry Research, Situ Gede, Bogor Barat, Jawa Barat, 16115, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Houria
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Djoudi
authors.affiliation: WorldFish, Jalan Batu Maung, Batu Maung, 11960, Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lawless
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sustainability, Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University, Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Berta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Martín-López
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Ohio University, Clippinger Labs 122, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Smucker
authors.affiliation: Center for Development Research (ZEF), Walter-Flex 3, 53113, Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Grace B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Villamor
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, Ohio University, Clippinger Labs 122, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth Edna
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Wangui
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D057231:Climate Change; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012106:Research
keywords: Feminist political ecology; Global environmental change; Intersectionality; Reciprocity; Reflexivity