Women and Climate Change in Bangladesh: An Analysis From Gender Perspective

Md. Bayezid Alam, K. M. Atikur Rahman

Abstract


Climate change is not a gender neutral phenomenon. A gender perspective must urgently be integrated into the climate debate. This study examines the impacts of climate change from the gender perspective. The result shows that climate change is having a disproportionate impact on women in Bangladesh. Women suffer more than men during and after climatic disasters. It concludes with some suggestions for the mitigation and adoption to climate change.  


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Women; Climate change; Gender; Bangladesh

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/9858

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