This book describes climate crisis, associated vulnerabilities and impacts have different faces according to gender and regions. This book aims to reveal different forms of climate crises, vulnerabilities, impacts and policy implications in different countries of South and East Asian countries from gender perspectives. Further, this book intends to facilitate gender sensitive policy decision making and action planning. Therefore, it covers a wide range of gender specific cross cutting issues including climate crisis induced disasters, early warning, biodiversity conservation, watershed management, social capital, institutional approaches and such other challenging aspects. This book anticipates to guide decision makers, government executives and academic to move forward for a gender sensitive climate action planning.

This book will have diverse readers including government officials, policy makers, development workers, researchers, scholars and students. All these readers will Different cross cutting issues are not well known and well published. There are different published materials and documents that focus gender sensitive issues. But there is no single source, from where all these readers can have better understanding about different gender related climate crisis issues and initiatives. Therefore, as a single and reliable published source this book will provide better understanding and knowledge for targeted readers to solve problems of gender related climate crisis issues and thus to contribute gender development in this climate change world.

Insights for students of social science, gender studies, environment, disaster management and climate crisis management Focuses Gender induced climate crisis management in context of South and East Asia Brings together collective knowledge to support policy and decision-making

Autorentext

Md Anwarul Abedin is a Professor and Leader of Laboratory of Environment and Sustainable Development in the Department of Soil Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Currently he is associated with Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan as Visiting Professor. He has got his PhD from Kyoto University, Japan and also did his JSPS postdoc in Kyoto University and Commonwealth postdoc in Northumbria University, UK. Dr. Abedin was awarded the esteemed Pan Asia Risk Reduction Fellowship offered by START, USA and carried out collaborative research among the BAU, START and Kyoto University, Japan. He has 21 years teaching and research experiences in the field of agriculture, food safety and security and environmental issues viz. water resource management, solid waste management, environmental impact assessment, community-based adaptations and resilience mapping, climate change and disaster risk reduction, land use change, community participation.

Gulsan Ara Parvin is a researcher and Instructor of Collage of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She served different graduate schools and research centers of Kyoto University, Japan for about 12 years. She was an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). She has conducted her PhD from Urban Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo. Her expertise is in Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Resilience, social capital, women empowerment and microfinance in Bangladesh. She has published about 50 research papers in different journals and books. She has research and teaching experiences in Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and USA.

Nina Takashino is an Associate Professor in the College of Policy Science at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Kobe University in 2007. Before joining Ritsumeikan University, she worked at Hokkaido University, the University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University. In 2018 and 2019, she spent her sabbatical as a visiting fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre at Oxford University and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, funded by the Japanese government. Her research interests include gender and human security issues, development policy, poverty alleviation, and food policy. Her research activity is mainly devoted to analyzing people's behavior based on the field survey using questionnaires and deriving policy implications. She has research experience in Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, the Philippines, Japan, and Cameroon

Rajib Shaw is the professor in Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). He is also co-founder of a Delhi (India) based social entrepreneur startup Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA) and RIKA Institute, a not-for-profit entity of RIKA. Professor Shaw is the recipient of prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) in 2021 for his contribution in education sector. PBSA is the highest honor conferred on overseas Indians and persons of Indian origin from the President of India. Professor Shaw is also the recipient of United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2022 for his lifetime contributions in the field of disaster risk reduction. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education.

Inhalt

Section A: Introduction.- Introduction to Climate Crisis and Gender.- Section B: Climate crisis and Gender in South-Asia.-
Gender Responsive Drought Resilience Assessment in Afghanistan Using Geospatial Techniques.- Gender Dynamics in Climate Change-Induced Disasters in Bangladesh: Early Warning to Build Back Better.- Gender Responsive Drought Resilience and DRR Approaches in Bangladesh.- Climate crisis and its differential impacts: multi-sectoral gender perspective from Uttarakhand, India.- Gender perspectives on women's role in landslide risk reduction and early warning systems in the Nepal Himalaya.- Gender Focused Social Capital and Community Actions to Mitigate Flood Risks in Pakistan.- Integrating Women in Sustainable Watershed Management: A Path to Reducing Flood and Risks in Sri Lanka Drought.- Section C: Climate crisis and Gender in East-Asia.- Women Empowering in Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaption: A Case Study at Ramsar Site of Cambodia.- Women's Household Roles, Perceived Dangerousness, and Household Resilience: Empirical Evidence from Geological Disasters in Sichuan, China.- Climate Change Risk scapes and Strategies for Women and Girls of Indonesia.- Climate Crisis and Disaster Management in Japan: Scrutinizing from the Perspective of Gender Difference and Inclusion.- Enhancing Disaster Management through Gender-Sensitive Approaches: Insights from South Korea's Climate Crisis.- Identifying Gender Perspectives on Green Roof Attributes Efficiency in Improving Mental Health.- Climate and Disaster Risks and Resilience of Women Street Vendors in Metro Manila, Philippines.- Gender Transformative Approach in Climatic Disasters Management in Thailand.- Seeding the Sustainability: Enhanced Women's Role in Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Vietnam
Section D: Concluding remarks.- Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis: Policies and Institutional Approaches in Asia.