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A review of gender and climate change in European cities
No full textClimate change, as one of the greatest challenges of the modern era affecting vital economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry, fishery, tourism, energy, water supply, transport, building/construction (Lückenkötter, et al, 2013), is not gender-neutral. Capacities to face the challenge of climate change and the socio-economic impacts of climate change policies and measures differ by gender (Alber, 2012) and unequal policies emphasise inequalities and discrimination from other sources. The main question seems to be data availability on gender relevance and absence of disaggregated or integrated data (Arora Jonsson, 2013).
Research on climate change and gender referred to the EU is scarce, especially on urban settings (EIGE, 2012). Further research must address issues of European urban areas to better understand impacts and responses. Urban adaptation has to be connected with the concept of resilience, its gender sensitivity and its relevance for target populations in terms of society's ability to adapt to change. There is a need for urban indicators, socio-ecological scenarios and adaptation progress in urban areas.
This paper refers the findings of a Short term scientific mission performed within Gender STE action on climate change, focused on a literature review on gender and climate change in European cities. Main indicators project, experiences and tools are not gendered: a bigger effort is needed to overcome barriers to participation in decision-making at all levels, to assess gendered impacts trough proper indicators and monitoring gender consideration in policies and program, including a more multidisciplinary approach to improve resilience at the local level
Consumo di suolo, servizi ecosistemici e resilienza: un quadro da comporre nella pratica
No full textTra i possibili approcci per la sostenibilità dell’uso del suolo vi sono i servizi ecosistemici e la resilienza. Nonostante la conoscenza approfondita delle risorse naturali, nella pratica locale è ancora limitata la diffusione della valutazione dei servizi ecosistemici (Steiner, 2014). Al contempo approcci finalizzati alla resilienza dei territori e alla gestione integrata dei rischi, rischiano di rimanere schemi generici in assenza di applicazioni concrete ancorate alla realtà locale (Collier, 2013). Per il contenimento del consumo di suolo una possibile strada è integrare la valutazione dei servizi ecosistemici nelle strategie di resilienza territoriale. Al fine di evidenziare opportunità e criticità dell’integrazione tra i due approcci, sono discussi i primi risultati di un'analisi delle implicazioni per il consumo di suolo dei progetti per la resilienza avviati nella realtà territoriale del X municipio di Roma
Il consumo di suolo come campo di conflitto sociale
No full textWhile Europe is broadly discussing on the soil protection and the land management, the progressive land take is leading to a new
conflict between a sustainable use of land and the consumption of this non-renewable resource. Though land planning is devoted to
manage the social and political conflicts on land use, it does not seem able to effectively address social, economic and financial concerns of land take. In the same time, natural system dynamics and different spatial and temporal patterns of land take impacts must be considered. An analysis of causes, effects, and social issues of this specific conflict could help land-take prevention policies and should therefore enter into the planning processes
Valutazione e quantificazione dei servizi ecosistemici forniti dal suolo
No full textLa tutela del capitale naturale è riconosciuta come uno dei cardini per la sostenibilità della vita dell’uomo sulla terra (da Rio nel 1992, agli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile post 2015). I benefici che l’uomo ottiene da questo capitale sono i servizi ecosistemici (SE), forniti direttamente o indirettamente attraverso le funzioni degli ecosistemi. La valutazione dei SE è una delle sfide che la conoscenza scientifica e la pratica gestionale hanno di fronte nei prossimi anni. Uno degli aspetti più complessi riguarda in particolare il suolo, che rappresenta una delle risorse fondamentali per la vita dell’essere umano
Gendering environmental data in urban policies - the Italian experience
No full textAs recognised in the framework of EU 2020, gender have implications for scientific knowledge and actively contributes to the production of goods and services better suited to potential markets (EU factsheet H2020). The environment has an explicit gender dimension, both in terms of biological characteristics and social/cultural factors. There are increasing calls for accounting gender in both practical and analytical terms. In this context research on Equal-eco management can help public administrations in the effort needed to address gender in technical environmental assessment and protect from unequal ways of thinking about the environmental problems too. The first step is define how environmental assessment can take into account gender and how promote the production of the needed gendered data.
Indicators on urban environmental quality, used by ISPRA for the assessment of the main italian urban areas, are analysed for gender dimension. The aim of the analysis is to highlight:
• What phenomena have a significative gender dimension to be assessed
• What kind of data related to geneder dimension of phenomena at the urban level is available
A discussion of gender dimension of indicators on urban mobility such as mortality from transport accidents and transport workforce, and sustainable mobility professional profiles is presented as a case study for further development of research.
The main finding is that quite all of the topics included in the environmental assessment of urban areas is connected with gender but only few has gendered data available to be addressed. Gender mainstreaming in statistical national surveys and environmental monitoring is still needed. Rethinking the target of data production trough a gender analysis could have positive impacts also to address other forms of inclusion (sex attitude, ability/disability, ageing, religion, immigration) and really help decision making in responding to societal challenges
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