Author: Irene Dankelman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134046014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the first and hardest hit by environmental mismanagement, yet they are neither consulted nor taken into account by development strategists. lrene Dankelman and Joan Davidson provide a clear account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. They also describe the lack of response from international organizations. With the help of well-documented case studies they describe the ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges. Originally published in 1988
Women and the Environment in the Third World
The Power to Change
Author: Women's Feature Service (Project)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
On the social and economic condition of women in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; contributed articles.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
On the social and economic condition of women in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; contributed articles.
Women and the Environment
Author: Annabel Rodda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Development Crises and Alternative Visions
Author: Gita Sen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134156898
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134156898
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.
Women and Environment in the Third World
Author: Irene Dankelman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Author: Rosi Braidotti
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856491846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856491846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.
Women and the Environment
Author: Sally Sontheimer
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 9781853831119
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Increasingly, over the last 20 years, women in poor developing countries have had to cope with growing ecological stress. Food, fodder, wood and water, previously in adequate supply have become scarce, and women have also been deprived of traditional access to cultivable land. Those who left the countryside for the cities now face terrible pollution, miserable housing and poor sanitation and water supplies. This reader tells the rarely told story of women living and coping in these dreadful conditions. It is a book of hope because it shows them to be not passive victims but courageous fighters and organizers in the fact of natural disaster, uncaring bureaucracy, agencies and governments whose priorities lie elsewhere, and traditional structures inimical to their needs. The women and their oganizations described here have produced demonstrably effective approaches for more sustainable uses of their resources and environments, challenging conventional accounts of their roles.
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 9781853831119
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Increasingly, over the last 20 years, women in poor developing countries have had to cope with growing ecological stress. Food, fodder, wood and water, previously in adequate supply have become scarce, and women have also been deprived of traditional access to cultivable land. Those who left the countryside for the cities now face terrible pollution, miserable housing and poor sanitation and water supplies. This reader tells the rarely told story of women living and coping in these dreadful conditions. It is a book of hope because it shows them to be not passive victims but courageous fighters and organizers in the fact of natural disaster, uncaring bureaucracy, agencies and governments whose priorities lie elsewhere, and traditional structures inimical to their needs. The women and their oganizations described here have produced demonstrably effective approaches for more sustainable uses of their resources and environments, challenging conventional accounts of their roles.
Women and Development in the Third World
Author: Janet Momsen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134979401
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development can only be achieved through a radical restructuring of the process of development. This important new book reviews both policy and practice in Latin America, Africa and Asia and raises thought-provoking questions concerning the role of development planning and the empowerment of women.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134979401
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development can only be achieved through a radical restructuring of the process of development. This important new book reviews both policy and practice in Latin America, Africa and Asia and raises thought-provoking questions concerning the role of development planning and the empowerment of women.
Women and Environment in the Third World
Author: Irene Dankelmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sustainable development
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Power to Change
Author: Women's Feature Service (Project)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856492263
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
On the social and economic condition of women in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; contributed articles.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856492263
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
On the social and economic condition of women in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; contributed articles.