Intersectional Climate Change Adaptation

We are glad to share the final deliverables of our #ASCEND project! 🚀 ASCEND - "ClimAte JuStiCe and INtersectionality: from ADaptation to Transformation"ASCEND - "ClimAte JuStiCe and INtersectionality: from ADaptation to Transformation" - explores climate justice through an intersectional lens, integrating concepts of #vulnerability, #climateresilience, and social-ecological #transformation. By highlighting perspectives on gender, minorities, youth, and migrants, we aim to contribute to more inclusive climate adaptation planning.

Intersectional Climate Change Adaptation Climate change intensifies social inequalities, yet traditional research often neglects how factors like gender, ethnicity, race, age, disability, and socioeconomic status create unique vulnerabilities. The ASCEND project aims to merge climate justice principles with an intersectional approach, highlighting gender, minority, youth, and migrant perspectives in both theory and practice. This report explores how states, regions, and communities outside South Tyrol have succeeded or failed in applying an intersectional lens in local climate change adaptation planning. The objective was to draw lessons from these cases to foster cross-fertilization and inspire strategies for South Tyrol, identifying existing research gaps, needs, and foci for future research. It discusses intersectionality in climate research, outlines methodologies, presents key findings, and offers lessons learned and recommendations. A glossary of intersecting social factors and a comprehensive list of cases are included in the appendix.

Access work https://works.eurac.edu/ASCEND-2-Intersectional-Climate-Change-Adaptation.pdf