Bearing the Burden: The Impact of Climate Change on Women and Men Is Not the Same. Women Are Increasingly More Vulnerable, Mainly Because They Represent the Majority of the World's Poor and Are Proportionally More Dependent on Threatened Natural Resources

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HUMAN SECURITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND WOMEN

BY IRENE DANKELMAN, Professor, Centre for Sustainable Management of Resources, Radboud University, Netherlands.

HUMAN         SECURITY        CLIMATE CHANGE      IMPACT ON WOMEN
SECURITY      ASPECTS

Security of  Mortality/     * Mortality/         * Overall more
Survival     injury           injury from          women than men die
                              different extreme    or are injured
                              weather events/
                              disasters

             Health         * Increase in        * Bearing the
                              infectious           burden of taking
                              diseases             care of the sick/
                                                   disabled

                            * Physical and       * Increase in
                              mental stress        mental stress

                            * Loss of            * Lack of access to
                              medicinal plants/    reproductive health
                              biodiversity         services

                                                 * Greater risk of
                                                   HIV/AIDS due to
                                                   early marriage,
                                                   forced
                                                   prostitution,
                                                   sexual violence

Security of  Food Security  * Harvests           * Bearing the
livelihood                    destroyed            burden of more
                                                   time, energy and
                                                   budget requirements
                                                   for food production
                                                   and purchase

                            * Agricultural       * Stand in line for
                              production           humanitarian food
                              changes/ drops …