Date of Award
Spring 5-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
International Studies
First Advisor
Lynn Horton, PhD
Second Advisor
Andrea Molle, PhD
Third Advisor
Mackenzie Crigger, PhD
Abstract
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges our world faces today and will be facing for generations to come, as nature and its ecosystems increasingly experience extreme weather patterns and irreversible environmental damage. Marginalized populations such as women and indigenous peoples have been disproportionately impacted by climate change and offer unique and valuable perspectives and lived experiences of climate change. This paper adopts an intersectional approach. Its comparative case study of Iceland and New Zealand explores how women and indigenous peoples have informally and formally contributed to climate action policies. This research analyzes the relationship between the Global Gender Gap Index and the Environmental Performance Index. It also incorporates a comprehensive literature review to better understand how women and indigenous peoples shape wider socio-cultural understandings, values, and attitudes toward the environment and how they contribute to climate action policies. By exploring how Icelandic and New Zealand groups shape cultural understandings of climate change in both non-technocratic and formal institutionalized channels, this thesis offers insights on how to support these groups while also advancing mitigative and adaptive strategies to climate crisis.
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Recommended Citation
Foucaut, Sixtine. "Intersectional Approaches to Climate Action: A Comparative Study of Women's Equality and Indigenous Voices in Iceland and New Zealand." Master's thesis, Chapman University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36837/chapman.000372
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