This chapter offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the gendered dimensions of climate change and disaster resilience in the Asia–Pacific region, one of the most climate-vulnerable areas globally. It critically examines how climate impacts intersect with entrenched socio-economic inequalities, cultural norms and systemic exclusions, disproportionately affecting women, indigenous communities and gender minorities such as transgender and non-binary individuals. Drawing on intersectionality, ecofeminism, and the Gender and Development (GAD) framework, the chapter explores how these groups experience, respond to and resist climate-induced adversities. It highlights gaps in policy implementation, the invisibility of queer populations in disaster governance and the structural barriers to inclusive resilience. Through country-specific case studies and community-driven practices—from women-led mangrove restoration in India to trans-led climate advocacy in Tamil Nadu—the chapter underscores the urgent need for gender-transformative climate policies, disaggregated data systems, inclusive governance and direct climate financing for marginalized groups. It calls for reimagining resilience not as a technocratic fix but as a justice-driven, participatory process rooted in local knowledge, social equity and transformative change.

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Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: An Asia Pacific Overview

  • Mausumi Bhattacharyya,
  • Rajib Shaw

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This chapter offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the gendered dimensions of climate change and disaster resilience in the Asia–Pacific region, one of the most climate-vulnerable areas globally. It critically examines how climate impacts intersect with entrenched socio-economic inequalities, cultural norms and systemic exclusions, disproportionately affecting women, indigenous communities and gender minorities such as transgender and non-binary individuals. Drawing on intersectionality, ecofeminism, and the Gender and Development (GAD) framework, the chapter explores how these groups experience, respond to and resist climate-induced adversities. It highlights gaps in policy implementation, the invisibility of queer populations in disaster governance and the structural barriers to inclusive resilience. Through country-specific case studies and community-driven practices—from women-led mangrove restoration in India to trans-led climate advocacy in Tamil Nadu—the chapter underscores the urgent need for gender-transformative climate policies, disaggregated data systems, inclusive governance and direct climate financing for marginalized groups. It calls for reimagining resilience not as a technocratic fix but as a justice-driven, participatory process rooted in local knowledge, social equity and transformative change.