Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0816530017 ISBN 13 : 9780816530014

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2012

Synopsis

This 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

María Luz Cruz-Torres is an associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico, also published by the University of Arizona Press. Pamela McElwee is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816530017
• ISBN 13: 9780816530014
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 253
• Éditeur: Cruz-Torres María Luz, McElwee Pamela
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• Personne responsable: non disponible