caa a22 4500 606241582 CHVBK 20210128101313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11211-015-0241-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11211-015-0241-y Gender Equality and Climate Justice: A Cross-National Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Laura McKinney, Gregory Fulkerson] The purpose of this paper is to gain empirical footing on the mechanisms that drive and mitigate global warming, which is a topic of growing significance to themes of social justice. Using components of the ecological footprint, we construct a measure of each nation's relative contributions to carbon dioxide emissions after accounting for the amount sequestered by domestic forestlands. We refer to this measure as the "climate footprint,” and construct a structural equation model to test key theorizations in the environmental sociology literature. We add to this body of work by incorporating and empirically testing ecofeminist positions that the status of women is a cause and an effect of environmental conditions. Results suggest women and the environment are interconnected dimensions of exploitation, as ecological losses weaken women's status in nations. We also find that nations with greater female representation in governing bodies have lower climate footprints, controlling for domestic (urbanization, production) and global (world-system integration) drivers. Conclusions point to the potential for gender equality and improving the status of women worldwide to curtail climate change. Other theoretical and empirical implications are treated, including the benefits of bringing women into theories of the environment and the utility of structural equation techniques for testing hypotheses that specify direct and indirect connections among relevant predictors and the outcome. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Climate justice nationallicence Gender equality nationallicence Ecofeminism nationallicence Global warming nationallicence Cross-national nationallicence McKinney Laura Department of Sociology, Tulane University, 220 Newcomb Hall, 70118, New Orleans, LA, USA aut Fulkerson Gregory Department of Sociology, SUNY—Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., 13820, Oneonta, NY, USA aut Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/3(2015-09-01), 293-317 0885-7466 28:3<293 2015 28 11211 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0241-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0241-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McKinney Laura Department of Sociology, Tulane University, 220 Newcomb Hall, 70118, New Orleans, LA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fulkerson Gregory Department of Sociology, SUNY—Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., 13820, Oneonta, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Justice Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/3(2015-09-01), 293-317 0885-7466 28:3<293 2015 28 11211