How Feminist Research Can Help Confront the Climate Crisis

Nov 11, 2019 | Maria Tanyag
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Humanity is now at a point where we can no longer afford to examine climate-related risks and their impacts on humans independent of other ecosystems, or to treat risks to food insecurity and health, for example, in isolation from climate-related drivers to conflict and displacement. Indeed, as the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report indicates, there are significant gaps in knowledge on the interactions of climate change responses with sustainable development and poverty eradication, particularly in understanding what synergies and trade-offs there are in current mitigation and adaptation strategies across regions and globally. Moreover, the development of integrated risk assessment, management and long-term response is increasingly necessary to encompass the occurrence of simultaneous hazards, cumulative impacts and cascading disasters which cannot be left to natural and physical sciences alone.