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dc.contributor.editorCruz-Torres, María Luz
dc.contributor.editorMcElwee, Pamela
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-23T05:30:44Z
dc.date.available2022-03-23T05:30:44Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53535
dc.description.abstractThis is one of the first books to address how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions collected here deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural resources—not in the abstract but in everyday life. Contributors are concerned with the lived complexities of the relationship between gender and sustainability. Bringing together case studies from Asia and Latin America, this valuable collection adds new knowledge to our understanding of the interplay between local and global processes. Organized broadly by three major issues—forests, water, and fisheries—the scholarship ranges widely: the gender dimensions of the illegal trade in wildlife in Vietnam; women and development issues along the Ganges River; the role of gender in sustainable fishing in the Philippines; women’s inclusion in community forestry in India; gender-based confrontations and resistance in Mexican fisheries; environmentalism and gender in Ecuador; and women’s roles in managing water scarcity in Bolivia and addressing sustainability in shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta. Together these chapters show why gender issues are important for understanding how communities and populations deal daily with the challenges of globalization and environmental change. Through their rich ethnographic research, the contributors demonstrate that gender analysis offers useful insights into how a more sustainable world can be negotiated—one household and one community at a time. Contributors: Stephanie Buechler María Luz Cruz-Torres Linda D’Amico Georgina Drew James Eder Lisa L. Gezon Pamela McElwee Neera Singh Hong Anh Vu Amber Wutich
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groupsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherGender Studies
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherCultural & Social
dc.titleGender and Sustainability
dc.title.alternativeLessons from Asia and Latin America
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy40b84fbe-c64c-45d0-b80a-f260ee8b8f03
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780816548439
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintUniversity of Arizona Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/b12ba2cd-7baa-4660-9302-bbf8d06f908f
oapen.identifier.isbn9780816548439
grantor.number6794


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