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Table 1. Gender-sensitive adaptation measures
1 Managing infrastructure and settlements
Measures Possible negative impacts Suggestions
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Build
breakwaters
or seafronts,
dikes and
barriers
against rising
tides
May create job sources that favour
hiring a male work force with no
opportunities for women to work on
jobs they would like to do and can
do.
Ignorance of the impact on women’s
productive activities (hand digging
for molluscs, among others), with no
attention paid to the consequences of
the impact.
Promote training and hiring of both women
and men.
Ensure access to wage-earning productive
activities to improve living conditions for
families.
Include gender criteria in Environmental
Impact Assessments (EIAs).
Re-zone
settlements
and
productive
activities in
coastal areas
May create job sources that favour
hiring a male work force with no
opportunities for women to work on
jobs they would like to do and can
do.
Ignorance of the impact on women’s
productive activities (hand digging
for molluscs, among others), with no
attention paid to the consequences of
the impact.
Involve women in monitoring the effects
of climate change, for example in coral
ecosystems and in aquaculture.
Include women in strategies to adapt to the
reduction of marine species, or managing
new marine species.
Develop initiatives to recover and reforest
mangroves.
Implement integrated coastal management
policies that consider risk management and
gender approaches.
Include gender criteria in EIAs.
Build bridges
to cross areas
subject to
flooding
May create job sources that favour
hiring a male work force with no
opportunities for women to work on
jobs they would like to do and can
do.
Consider the practical needs of spatial
mobility.
Promote training and hiring of both women
and men.
Ignores men’s and women’s specific
interests and necessities related to the
use of space.
Develop land use with a gender approach.
Include gender criteria in the EIAs.
May lengthen or make more
difficult many women’s working day
by increasing distances they must
cover if bridges are built exclusively
for transport.