Livelihoods with multiple stressors

Gendered youth decision-making under global change in rural Northwest Mexico

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4464584
AutoresStephanie Buechler (0000-0001-8118-6369, University of Arizona, autor de correspondencia), America Lutz-Ley, América N Lutz Ley (0000-0002-7257-616X, El Colegio de Sonora)
Año2020
Volumen3
Número4
Páginas1096-1119
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2514848619878603
OpenAlexW2977726561
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas42

Livelihoods in rural communities have become increasingly complex due to rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental forces, with differing impacts on and responses by female and male youth. This study contributes to feminist political ecology through an explicit focus on youth and an examination of the intersections of age and gender in educational choices, livelihood systems, and human-environment interactions. We undertake double exposures analysis to explore female and male youths' livelihood-related decision-making in Rayón, a semi-arid rural community in Northwest Mexico, undergoing global environmental change and globalization-related shifts in agriculture, climate, water, and socio-economic conditions. Global environmental change exacerbates an already fragile, local ecological context. A focus on gender issues among youth in three age categories (14-15, 16-19, and youth in their 20s) with respect to their decision-making concerning the future is critical to gaining a better understanding of the roles women and men will play in linked agricultural and non-agricultural, rural to urban livelihood systems. Agricultural employment increasingly includes global agribusiness where local youth compete with people from other areas. Access to employment, education, as well as water and land resources varied by gender, age, and social class, and played significant roles in livelihood diversification and migration decisions and outcomes. Mothers' access to government assistance for their natural resource-based livelihoods positively impacted daughters' opportunities. Educational curricula failed to link environmental change with local livelihoods and to prepare students for urban careers. This study offers insights related to female and male youths' needs associated with environmental education, technology access, job training, and child and sibling care in order for them to more successfully confront the future across village, town, and city spaces

Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Focus group · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Rural development and sustainability