Akrofi Mark M, Mahama Mudasiru, Nevo Chinedu M
Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, 150-8925 Japan.
Regional Center for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.
SN Soc Sci. 2021;1(8):198. doi: 10.1007/s43545-021-00207-5. Epub 2021 Aug 2.
Gender is a critical factor in how people respond to, and recover from major disruptions such as natural disasters or disease outbreaks. Climate-related disasters are known to pose-gender specific problems that disproportionately affect more women than men. Similarly, the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts along gender lines are enormous, with women being the worst-affected. Existing studies have drawn connections between COVID-19 and climate change, with most arguing that responses to the pandemic provide an opportunity to tackle climate change through emission reduction strategies as part of recovery efforts. We introduce a new dimension to this connection by demonstrating that though different phenomena, COVID-19 and climate change are not so dissimilar in terms of their gendered socioeconomic impacts. Through a systematic review of the available literature, we establish a nexus between these impacts, and examine how the gender responses to COVID-19 can be leveraged to address gender-related climate impacts. We find that social protection, labor market, economic, and violence against women measures adopted in response to the pandemic provide a good opportunity to address the gender impacts of climate change as well. However, current COVID-19 gender responses do not incorporate the interconnections between the gender impacts of the pandemic and climate change. Adopting a nexus approach could help to leverage COVID-19 responses to address the gendered socioeconomic impacts of both crises.
性别是人们如何应对重大破坏（如自然灾害或疾病爆发）并从中恢复的关键因素。众所周知，与气候相关的灾害会带来特定性别的问题，对女性的影响比男性更为严重。同样，新冠疫情在性别方面的影响巨大，女性受影响最为严重。现有研究已将新冠疫情与气候变化联系起来，大多数研究认为，应对疫情为通过减排策略应对气候变化提供了一个机会，作为恢复工作的一部分。我们通过证明尽管新冠疫情和气候变化是不同的现象，但在其性别化的社会经济影响方面并非如此不同，为这种联系引入了一个新的维度。通过对现有文献的系统综述，我们建立了这些影响之间的联系，并研究如何利用对新冠疫情的性别应对措施来解决与性别相关的气候影响。我们发现，为应对疫情而采取的社会保护、劳动力市场、经济和针对妇女的暴力行为措施，也为解决气候变化的性别影响提供了一个好机会。然而，目前对新冠疫情的性别应对措施并未纳入疫情的性别影响与气候变化之间的相互联系。采用一种联系方法有助于利用对新冠疫情的应对措施来解决这两种危机的性别化社会经济影响。
