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About the Book

Gender, climate, and health sit at the center of some of the most urgent and intertwined challenges of our time, shaping how risks are experienced, resources are accessed, and well-being is protected or denied. Gender, Climate and Health: Understanding the Disparities and Intersectional Impacts foregrounds these interconnections, demonstrating how climate change and environmental degradation deepen existing gendered and social inequalities, with profound consequences for physical, mental, and community health. By centering intersectional analysis, the book reveals how vulnerability and resilience are unevenly distributed across lines of gender, class, caste, race, geography, age, and ability.

As societies grapple with escalating climate crises, public health emergencies, and widening socio-economic divides, the volume positions gender-responsive and equity-driven approaches as both an ethical necessity and a practical framework for effective action. Moving beyond siloed responses to climate or health, the book emphasizes evidence-based, community-informed, and justice-oriented strategies that recognize care work, lived experience, and local knowledge as essential to building adaptive and resilient systems. In doing so, it challenges dominant technocratic and gender-neutral narratives that often overlook those most affected by environmental and health shocks.

At its core, this book seeks to equip researchers, practitioners, policymakers, public health professionals, and climate advocates with the critical tools needed to understand and address the intersectional impacts of climate change on health through a gender lens. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and grounding analysis in real-world contexts, it contributes to broader efforts to reimagine climate and health governance as people-centred, inclusive, and rooted in equity, care, and collective well-being.