title: Enhancing and expanding intersectional research for climate change adaptation in agrarian settings.
abstract: Most current approaches focused on vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change frame gender and its influence in a manner out-of-step with contemporary academic and international development research. The tendency to rely on analyses of the sex-disaggregated gender categories of 'men' and 'women' as sole or principal divisions explaining the abilities of different people within a group to adapt to climate change, illustrates this problem. This framing of gender persists in spite of established bodies of knowledge that show how roles and responsibilities that influence a person´s ability to deal with climate-induced and other stressors emerge at the intersection of diverse identity categories, including but not limited to gender, age, seniority, ethnicity, marital status, and livelihoods. Here, we provide a review of relevant literature on this topic and argue that approaching vulnerability to climate change through intersectional understandings of identity can help improve adaptation programming, project design, implementation, and outcomes.
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: IDCE, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610-1477, USA.
authors.forename: Edward R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.affiliation: Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Edificio Sede Nº 1, Planta 1ª, Parque Científico de UPV/EHU, Barrio Sarriena, 48940, Leioa, Spain. unai.pascual@bc3research.org.|IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 3, 6 floor, 48013, Bilbao, Spain. unai.pascual@bc3research.org.|Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver St., Cambridge, CB3 9EP, UK. unai.pascual@bc3research.org.
authors.forename: Unai
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pascual
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D057231:Climate Change; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012106:Research
keywords: Agriculture; Climate change adaptation; Gender; Identity; Intersectional; Vulnerability