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Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam
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International Doctoral Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development (IPCS), National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien 97401, Taiwan
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Sustainability 2019, 11(5), 1257; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051257
Received: 3 December 2018
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Revised: 12 February 2019
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Accepted: 21 February 2019
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Published: 27 February 2019
(This article belongs to the Section Geography and Sustainability)
Climate change has exacerbated gender inequality, and women are a vulnerable group. Previous research attributed this to physical gender differences, gender differences in ownership and control of natural resources, and socioeconomic status. We used a survey of 99 participants, seven focus group discussions, and 13 in-depth interviews in a coastal community in Vietnam to gain insight into the roots of gender inequality in the capacity to adapt to climate change. We analysed the role of social capital in regulating and mobilising other livelihood assets from a gendered perspective and found that gender norms explain the division and interactions of men and women in formal and informal networks. Based on our results, we suggest that policy-makers should pay more attention to gender issues when proposing climate change policies and reducing the gender imbalance in the impact of climate change adaptation.
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Keywords:
social capital; adaptive capacity; gender inequality
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Phan, L.T.; Jou, S.C.; Lin, J.-H. Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1257. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051257
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Phan LT, Jou SC, Lin J-H. Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam. Sustainability. 2019; 11(5):1257. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051257
Chicago/Turabian StylePhan, Loan T., Sue C. Jou, and Jun-Hua Lin. 2019. "Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam" Sustainability 11, no. 5: 1257. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11051257
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