Paper short abstract:

Using survey data from 6000 households across four deltas in Africa and Asia, this paper highlights how gender differences in access to resources and decision making affects the types of adaptations that are chosen, and who benefits and loses from them.

Paper long abstract:

The gendered nature of decision-making and access to resources is accepted to be one of the drivers of differential capacities of men and women to adapt to climate change. Adaptations typically involve investment, expenditure or labour inputs. Within households, there are differences between men and women in the allocation of, and decision-making capacity over, capital (e.g. for investment and consumption) and labour. In addition, their gender roles and relations and differential access to these resources determines the way in which such decisions affect them. This paper uses survey data from 6000 households across four deltas in Asia and Africa to highlight who makes adaptation decisions and the types of adaptation they choose; as well as who benefits and who loses from these decisions and the implications for gender (in)equality.