Using a gendered lens to examine social-ecological regime shifts within coastal fishing communities

A social-ecological systems perspective analyzes the connections between human impacts and ecological components. Regime shifts are rapid changes in an ecosystem’s structure and function. They are often difficult to anticipate and either extremely costly or impossible to reverse. A gendered lens is crucial in analyzing these shifts as gender roles have been constructed by society, dictating the differences between men and women’s tasks, responsibilities and resources. It is recognized that there are gendered implications of environmental change and that they influence the dynamics of ecosystems. Women are often seen at the receiving end of rapid environmental change without having much control over how these changes were triggered in the first place. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Prateep Kumar Nayak

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Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

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