[Gender] RV: Women and Environments Mag - Climate Change issue

[Paula Zuñiga]

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Women & Environments International Magazine
 
Call for Submissions:
Women and Climate Change Spring 2007
 
Women and Environments International Magazine is looking for submissions for
its upcoming issue on climate change. This issue will contribute to meetings
and discussions of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2006 and 2007.  We encourage
submissions that analyze climate change from diverse perspectives of gender,
sexual identity, race, class, ability, age, socio-cultural and regional
differences among others.
 
Suggested (but not exhaustive) Areas of Interest are listed below. Case
studies are particularly welcome.
 
 
Gender Perspective on Climate Change in relation to:
  ·  Science of global warming.
·  Energy and transportation.
·  Health and reproductive health.
·  Water and biodiversity.
·  Economic impacts and cost-benefit analysis.
·  Human settlements and livelihoods.
·  Agriculture, fisheries, and natural resources management.
·  Disasters and Conflict.
Theoretical Perspectives:
    Framing the problem of climate change; framing the solutions.
   Alternative theoretical approaches to climate change.
   Neoliberal vs. ‘subsistence’ constructions of the problem of climate
change.
   Historicizing and engendering the discourse of climate change.
Instruments (Gender/Climate Change):
· Young women’s leadership.
   Gender mainstreaming methods and tools.
·  Women’s participation, leadership, and empowerment.
   Flexible mechanisms (clean development, emissions trading, joint
implementation).
Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies:
   Natural disasters, emergency preparedness and reconstruction.
   Consumption and production.
   Energy efficiency and renewable energy
· Corporate and institutional accountability.
Gender Advocacy Opportunities such as:
·  UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol.
·  UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
·  National governments and global institutions.
·  Community-based and non-governmental initiatives.
 
 
Deadlines:
Abstracts or indications of interest by June 15, 2006
Final Manuscripts by Aug 30th, 2006.
 
Writer’s Guidelines:
Features should not exceed 2500 words. Shorter pieces, book and film
reviews, poetry and artistic expressions are welcome. If you would like to
submit an article written in a language other than English, let us know and
we’ll do our best to facilitate translation. All written work must be
original and not previously published. Detailed editorial guidelines and
information can be found on our website http://www.weimag.com, under “write
for WEI Mag.”
 
Women and Environments International:
Women & Environments International Magazine is a unique Canadian magazine
that examines women's relations to their natural, built, and social
environments from feminist perspectives. WEI Mag provides a forum for
academic research and theory as well as professional and community practices
and experiences. Published by a volunteer editorial board since 1976 WEI Mag
aims to contribute to feminist social change.
 
Women and Gender Studies Institute, New College, University of Toronto
40 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5S 1C6
p: 416.978.5259  f: 416.946.5561  we.mag at utoronto.ca  www.weimag.com
 
 
 

  

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