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Over the past several decades, gender-sensitive analysis of water use, management and governance has made significant contributions to the scholarly literature. This chapter aims to draw insights from this literature that can be relevant for engendering energy transitions. To this end, we follow three steps. First, we identify the meanings given to gender within the context of water governance. Second, we discern the key themes on the nexus of gender and water governance by examining the theoretical and methodological approaches. Third, we distil theoretical, methodological and practical insights that are of relevance for engendering energy transitions. The theoretical insight concerns the theorization of gender to include the social and emotional aspects of resource access and participation, whereas the methodological insight relates to the added-value of mixed methods and large-N comparative studies. Finally, we highlight the practical insight on the role of wider social, political and historical contexts.
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Özerol, G., Harris, L.M. (2020). Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Water Governance: Insights for Engendering Energy Transitions. In: Clancy, J., Özerol, G., Mohlakoana, N., Feenstra, M., Sol Cueva, L. (eds) Engendering the Energy Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43513-4_4
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