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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.008
	Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation
	Sugden F.; Maskey N.; Clement F.; Ramesh V.; Philip A.; Rai A.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	29
英文摘要	This paper reviews the complex impact of climate change on gender relations and associated vulnerability on the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Nepal and India. Field research has identified that gendered vulnerability to climate change is intricately connected to local and macro level political economic processes. Rather than being a single driver of change, climate is one among several stresses on agriculture, alongside a broader set of non-climatic processes. While these pressures are linked to large scale political-economic processes, the response on the ground is mediated by the local level relations of class and caste, creating stratified patterns of vulnerability. The primary form of gendered vulnerability in the context of agrarian stress emerges from male out-migration, which has affected the distribution of labour and resources. While migration occurs amongst all socio-economic groups, women from marginal farmer and tenant households are most vulnerable. While the causes of migration are only indirectly associated with climate change, migration itself is rendering women who are left behind from marginal households, more vulnerable to ecological shocks such as droughts due to the sporadic flow of income and their reduced capacity for investment in off-farm activities. It is clear that policies and initiatives to address climate change in stratified social formations such as the Eastern Gangetic Plains, will be ineffective without addressing the deeper structural intersections between class, caste and gender. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Caste; Class; Climate change; Eastern gangetic plains; Gender; Vulnerability
学科领域	agrarian change; climate change; climate effect; field survey; gender relations; income distribution; labor migration; nature-society relations; off-farm employment; political economy; resource availability; vulnerability; Gangetic Plain
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agrarian change; climate change; climate effect; field survey; gender relations; income distribution; labor migration; nature-society relations; off-farm employment; political economy; resource availability; vulnerability; Gangetic Plain
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117710
作者单位	IWMI, Nepal; IWMI, India; CIMMYT, Nepal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sugden F.,Maskey N.,Clement F.,et al. Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation[J],2014,29.
APA	Sugden F.,Maskey N.,Clement F.,Ramesh V.,Philip A.,&Rai A..(2014).Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation.Global Environmental Change,29.
MLA	Sugden F.,et al."Agrarian stress and climate change in the Eastern Gangetic Plains: Gendered vulnerability in a stratified social formation".Global Environmental Change 29(2014).