The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation
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Gender & Development
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Theme
- Climate Change
- Publication Date
- Jul 2002
- Author(s)
- Emily Boyd
- Editor (s)
- Rachel Masika
- Publisher:
- Gender & Development is published for Oxfam GB by Routledge
- ISSN:
- 1355-2074
- E-ISSN:
- 1364-9221
- STOCK CODE:
- 002J1068
- FORMAT:
- Downloadable PDF (pp.8)
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A focus on land-use and forests as a means to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the global atmosphere has been at the heart of the international climate change debate since the United Nations Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997. This environmental management practice is a process technically referred to as mitigation. These largely technical projects have aimed to provide sustainable development benefits to forest-dependent people, as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, these projects have had limited success in achieving these local development objectives. This article argues that this is due in part to the patriarchal underpinnings of the sustainable development and climate-change policy agendas. The author explores this theory by considering how a climate mitigation project in Bolivia has resulted in different outcomes for women and men, and makes links between the global decision-making process and local effects.
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