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Gender mediates a variety of population-environment interactions, affecting natural resource use behaviors as well as the individual and household impacts of environmental shocks and stressors. This chapter provides an introduction to research on gender, population, and the environment. Following an overview of intellectual developments in gender and environment theory, we survey existing population-environment scholarship on gender as an intervening factor in four key areas of inquiry: perception of environmental change and risk; human impacts on the environment; adaptation to environmental change; and well-being outcomes following environmental stress. We also highlight key methodological considerations and critiques, and conclude with a discussion of research gaps and future directions for scholarship to better understand how gender mediates the impacts of increasingly disruptive environmental changes.

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