Women are under-represented in adaptation policy research and are more likely to emphasise justice topics

Danilenko, D., Andrijevic, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0199-1988, Sietsma, A., Callaghan, M., & Khanna, T. (2024). Women are under-represented in adaptation policy research and are more likely to emphasise justice topics. Environmental Research: Climate 3 (4) e045010. 10.1088/2752-5295/ad6f3b.

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Abstract

This paper is the first to analyse the role of women authors in fostering justice-relevant topics in climate adaptation research. As representation, citation and payment patterns remain gender-biased across scientific disciplines, we explore the case of climate science, particularly adaptation, as its most human-oriented facet. In climate research and policy, there has been a recent surge of interest in climate justice topics: mentions of justice have increased almost tenfold in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 2 reports between the latest assessment cycles (AR5 and AR6). We conduct a systematic examination of the topic space in the adaptation policy scholarship. As it is a vast and rapidly growing field, we use topic modelling, an unsupervised machine learning method, to identify the literature on climate justice and related fields, as well as to examine the relationship between topic prevalence and the gender of the authors. We find climate change adaptation policy research to be male dominated, with women holding 38.8% of first and 28.8% of last authorships. However, we observe topic-specific variability, whereby the share of female authors is higher among publications on justice-relevant topics. Female authorship is highly linked to topics such as Community, Local Knowledge, and Governance, but less to Food Security and Climate Finance. Our findings corroborate the evidence that female authors play a significant role in advancing the research and dialogue on the relationship between climate change and areas that have meaningful impact on lives of women and other marginalised groups.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	climate change, adaptation policy, gender, climate justice, topic modelling, Big Data, evidence map
Research Programs:	Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) > Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Depositing User:	Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2025 10:53
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2025 10:53
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/20385

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