Gender and the Social Dimensions of Climate Change Rural and Resource Contexts of the Global North

Different Experiences, Diverse Knowledges: Gender, Intersectionality, and Climate Change in Rural and Resource Contexts

AMBER J. FLETCHER AND MAUREEN G. REED

1 Wildfire in Northern Saskatchewan: Reflections for Intersectional Climate Hazards Research and Adaptation Practice

HEIDI WALKER

Reflection on Chapter 1: From Point A to Point B

NANCY LAFLEUR

2 Seeking Safe Refuge in Regional Australia: Experiences of Hazards and Practices of Safety among Women from Refugee Backgrounds

SHEFALI JUNEJA LAKHINA AND CHRISTINE ERIKSEN

Reflection on Chapter 2: Inclusion at the Intersections: From Individual to International, Intention to Impact

SHERRYL REDDY

3 Moving Away from Climate Crises: Women’s Engagement in Natural Resource Decision Making and Community Monitoring

LEAH LEVAC, JANE STINSON, AND DEBORAH STIENSTRA

Reflection on Chapter 3: Anchoring the Hope: Decision-making Safeguards to Make Women’s Voices Count

ANNA JOHNSTON

4 Tracing Resistance: Hypermasculinity and Climate Change Denial in the Heart of Alberta’s Oil Country

ANGELINE LETOURNEAU AND DEBRA DAVIDSON

Reflection on Chapter 4: Finding Balance: Gender, Extractive Industries, and Climate Change

MARY BOYDEN

5 Embodied Perceptions, Everydayness, and Simultaneity in Climate Governance by Spanish Women Pastoralists

FEDERICA RAVERA, ELISA OTEROS-ROZAS, AND MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ-GIMÉNEZ

Reflection on Chapter 5: The Scarlett Attack

LUCÍA COBOS

6 Leadership in Mountain and Wildland Professions in Canada: Examining the Impacts of Gender, Safety, and Climate Change

RACHEL REIMER AND CHRISTINE ERIKSEN

Reflection on Chapter 6: Where is the Climbing Ranger?

ALISON CRISCITIELLO

7 Contemporary Feminist Analysis of Australian Farm Women in the Context of Climate Changes

MARGARET ALSTON, JOSEPHINE CLARKE, AND KERRI WHITTENBURY

Reflection on Chapter 7: What Is Man-Made Can Be Unmade

ALANA JOHNSON AM

Conclusion: Welcoming a New Climate Future

MAUREEN G. REED AND AMBER J. FLETCHER

Biography

Amber J. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Studies and Academic Director of the Community Engagement and Research Centre at the University of Regina, Canada. Her research examines how gender and social inequality affect the lived experience of climate disaster in rural and Indigenous communities of the Canadian Prairies. In 2017, she edited the book Women in Agriculture Worldwide with Dr Wendee Kubik. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme and as an official delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She is a contributing author to a 2019 special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is former President of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. She holds two medals from the Governor General of Canada for her research and advocacy on gender equality in Canada. In 2020 she was the Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Maureen G. Reed is Distinguished Professor and a UNESCO Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation, and Renewal at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research programme focuses on the social dimensions of sustainability—how people, processes, and institutions shape decisions about environment and development. She has received many awards for her work, including the Canadian Association of Geographers Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography; the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award; the YWCA-Saskatoon Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Graduate Supervisor Award.