Abstract
Adaptation to climate change is key to limit temperature increase (Paris Agreement) and also emerged as a key topic in the last COP26 (Glasgow, 2021). It should be considerer as important as mitigation efforts. As successful adaptation actions or solutions are considered to be those “observed to be effective, feasible and just”, it is important to understand how they contribute to reduce climate change impacts when, for example, a extreme event occurs. For this purpose, “Vulnerability also provides an important link between climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction”. Vulnerability is a complex concept, that, while is widely considered a component of risk assessment, the ways it is understand, defined and measured greatly varies across disciplines, locations and typology of risks and hazards analyzed. However, according to the IPCC (2022) undertaking vulnerability assessment contributes to “improving understanding of the differential impacts of climate change on people of different gender, race, wealth, social status and other attributes”. Taking into account the general adaptation to climate change framework (IPCC), and vulnerability framework in particular, we propose to systematically analyze how different gender frameworks of cooperation (Moser, Kabeer…) could fit in to ensure that gender perspective is effectively incorporated when evaluating vulnerability to extreme events such floods and droughts, which may be increased in magnitude and frequency due to climate change in the future.
Presenters
Almudena Cabezas GonzalezLecture, Political History, Theories and Geography, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Julia Urquijo Reguera
Lecturer, Agroforestal Engineering Department, ETSIAAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Upper Technical School of Agricultural Engineers, Madrid, Spain
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KEYWORDS
Adaptation, Vulnerability, Gender, Impacts, Climate Change
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