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Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: The Unhappy Marriage of Engendering Policy and Practice

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The terminal ending of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) with a claim to a ‘revolutionary but realistic agenda’ failed to deliver in any substantive way. We now embark on appraising and negotiating to implement a new agenda with the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in 2015. While there were 8 MDGs, SDGs consist of more ambitious 17 goals, and while the former focused on developing non-western nations, the latter now requires all nations to work towards a global development agenda. The UN claims that the SDG fund underwriting this global agenda is a game changer; so how does that work in practical terms especially when it comes to SDG5—the commitment to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls?

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  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

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  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Janet McIntyre-Mills

  2. DABE, Sunnyside Campus, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Norma R. A. Romm

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Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2019). Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: The Unhappy Marriage of Engendering Policy and Practice. In: McIntyre-Mills, J., Romm, N.R.A. (eds) Mixed Methods and Cross Disciplinary Research. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04993-5_15

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