2.7. IN A HIGHLY CONNECTED AND CHANGING WORLD: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
This report reviews a number of sectors, topics and issues in relation to the linkages between gender and environment. All of them share some common factors that influence the analysis, including disasters, climate change, conflicts and health. These have been identified as “cross-cutting issues” for the sections in Chapter 2. They have close connections to human and environmental vulnerability, and many of these connections have been discussed in the previous sections of this chapter. This section briefly examines the complex intersections between these issues, with a focus on gender and the environment – which is often seen as a cross-cutting issue itself.