Table 1.

Physical risk categories and indicators

CategoryIndicatorDescriptionReferences
WaterWater insecurityUnsustainable accessibility to acceptable quality water sources; women and girls face climate water scarcity for their specific needs in drought season; severity and frequency of contamination of local water sourcesUN Water (2010), UNFCCC (2017); Figueiredo and Perkins (2013), WHO (2014); Howard et al. (2016) 
Water collection labourWater collection labour among women and girls in family
Groundwater dependencyWomen’s dependency on groundwater for personal and family’s needs (drinking, cooking, irrigation, sanitation and hygiene) and subsistence
LandArable land scarcityWomen-headed families own little to no farming landStuart et al. (2020), Chanana-Nag and Aggarwal (2020); World Economic Forum (2021) 
Disaster-prone land areaArable land area susceptible to saline intrusion, droughts, flooding, etc.
Geophysical disastersGeophysical risk of landslides, land subsidence, earthquakes, geomagnetic storms, etc.
ClimateClimate extremesSeverity and frequency of droughts, flood events and extreme heat events that cause loss of crops, damage to ecosystems and property, etc.WHO (2014), Whyte (2014); UNFCCC (2019a); IUCN (2015), Denton (2010); Boetto and McKinnon (2013), Quang (2021) 
Climate-related illnessesClimate hazards and unfavourable weather conditions cause negative impacts of women’s health
Climate-sensitive diseasesRising temperatures and other climate change effects fuel and facilitate the outbreaks of many infectious diseases to which rural women are susceptible given their outdoor daily work
EcologyBiodiversity lossReduced forest coverage and health of local forests or ecosystems (wetlands, forests, coral reefs, river ecosystem, etc.)Kristjanson (2019); Fortnam et al. (2019), Stuart et al. (2020); Nature Climate Change (2019) 
Degraded ecosystem servicesContribution of local biodiversity reserves to local gross domestic product
Eco gender gapDiscrimination against women in ecosystem services and in biodiversity conservation

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