Degree
BS (Social Sciences & Liberal Arts)
Faculty / School
School of Economics and Social Sciences (SESS)
Department
Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Date of Award
Spring 2024
Date of Submission
2025-12-06
Advisor
Ramsha Siddiqui, Lecturer, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
Project Type
SSLA Culminating Experience
Access Type
Restricted Access
Keywords
Climate Change, Gendered Vulnerability, Resilience, Feminist Political Ecology, Intersectionality
Abstract
This thesis explores the gendered impacts of climate change in Gojal, Hunza (Gilgit-Baltistan), one of Pakistan’s most climate-vulnerable mountain regions. It investigates how women perceive and respond to environmental changes such as glacial melt, unpredictable rainfall, and glacial lake outburst floods, and how these intersect with entrenched socio-economic and cultural inequalities. Using a feminist qualitative approach, the study documents women’s daily experiences and adaptive practices within broader ecological and institutional contexts. Findings show that women, central to agriculture, water and food security, caregiving, and community resilience, face heightened burdens due to exclusion from land ownership, decision-making, and institutional support, while male out-migration further intensifies their responsibilities. Despite these challenges, women demonstrate resilience through crop diversification, tunnel farming, food preservation, and informal networks, yet their agency remains largely invisible in formal adaptation policies, which often remain gender blind. Drawing on feminist political ecology, intersectionality, and resilience theory, the thesis argues that vulnerability in high-altitude contexts is socially constructed and differentiated, and calls for gender-responsive, locally grounded adaptation strategies. By centering women’s voices, the research reframes them as active agents of resilience and contributes empirical evidence to both scholarship and policy, underscoring the urgency of inclusive climate planning in Gilgit-Baltistan.
Pages
70
Recommended Citation
Ali, R. (2024). The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: A Case Study of Women in Gojal, Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan (Unpublished undergraduate project). Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/sslace/407
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