ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book contributes to the growing body of research by offering a sociological analysis of gender and climate change. It examines differences between men and women which relate to several aspects of climate change: impacts, science, skepticism, and policy. Gender, sexual differences and variations in gender roles across the globe have important implications for understanding whether the impacts of climate change will be similar or dissimilar for men and women, especially when climate change outcomes involve natural disasters. Sociological analyses of gender in everyday social life have implications for understanding the human dimensions of global climate change. The chapter reviews some basic climate change terms, processes, and findings which gives one the breadth and depth of climate change knowledge that need to evaluates the arguments and evidence about the ways that gender matters in understanding global climate change.
