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The systematic changes to the environment that takes place on a planetary scale may in a manner influence the global markets, the geopolitics as well as other social systems in a different manner when compared to the location-specific shocks in weather conditions that are totally uncorrelated with the state of weather in certain other regions. The predictable weather changes as well as the unpredictable nature of weather shocks may in a way generate various different social responses regardless of their state and nature (whether identical or not).The paper argues out the correlation between weather and war in a unique and yet clear manner. Glazebrook, T (2011).Women and Climate Change: A Case-Study from Northeast Ghana.

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In this paper, Glazebrook (2011) investigates the influence of weather on women via a case study conducted in Northeast Ghana. The argument is that there is a need, both practical and ethical in the inclusion of women's perspectives, opinions, need as well as expertise in the negotiations of international climate change issues. The author shows that climate change is a major contributor to the hardship that...

This is due to the fact that due to the close relationship between feminization of global poverty as well as environmental degradation that arises from the global climatic change. The author collected data from Ghana in order to effectively demonstrate that extreme weather conditions and events have a direct dire influence/effects on women subsistence farmers. The author is of the opinion that women harbor a lot of knowledge on the viable adaptation efforts that should be listened to. The final part of this paper surveys into detail, the international debate on climate with an in-depth assessment of the explanations for the existing gender blindness in the weather debates as well as a summary of the progress on the issue of gender that was made in both Cancun and Copenhagen. This is done in order to provoke a general movement towards a global climate justice for the women.
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Glazebrook, T (2011).Women and Climate Change: A Case-Study from Northeast Ghana.

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Hsiang, SM and Meng, KC and Canes, MA (2011).Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate. Nat…

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Glazebrook, T (2011).Women and Climate Change: A Case-Study from Northeast Ghana.

Hypatia. Vol (26) 4

Hsiang, SM and Meng, KC and Canes, MA (2011).Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate. Nat u r e Vol (476).
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