Social Issues

Examples of urban EbA interventions, predominantly in the Global South, are explored in this paper and linked with seven proposed EbA social principles related to climate justice.

This toolkit published by NAP Global Network, Least Developed Countries Expert Group and the Adaptation Committee— supports country efforts to pursue a gender-responsive NAP process.

This toolkit is designed to support country efforts to pursue a gender-responsive NAP process.

Religion and tradition can act as barriers to the effective behavioural change needed for adaptation. However these can also be used to leverage local practices for better uptake of adaptation.

This article asks a key question for adaptation and gender debates: what can we learn from development on social goal setting, institutional change, and gender equality?

This comparative report of six countries empirically tests how migration can benefit or undermine adaptation to environmental and climate change, based on MECLEP research.

How are people responding to and planning for multiple risks, and how do these responses vary among social groups?

SEI’s work on gender aims to narrow the gap between knowledge and policy and practice. This article presents key insights from this work up to 2014, as well as key activities.

This paper presents two case studies from cities that have taken action on air quality to improve public health and have realized the benefits of reduced emissions.

The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the scale of climate change, but also on demographic and socioeconomic trends.