Fingers point to men in major new environmental research

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Major new research on climate change, how it connects with what men do, and what to do about it has just been published by a research team including Professor Tamara Shefer, senior professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), who holds the DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in Blue Humanities and Gender Justice, and Professor Jeff Hearn, extraordinary Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies.

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Hearn, professor of sociology in Huddersfield’s Department of Social and Psychological Sciences, says: “There is now plenty of research that shows clear negative impacts of some men’s behaviour on the environment and climate; what is astonishing is how this aspect does not figure in most debate and policy on a more sustainable world.”