Gender and Natural Resource Management

by Resurreccion, Bernadette P.; Elmhirst, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781844075805
• ISBN10: 184407580X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. It provides an exploration of the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested element of social relationships. It offers a critical feminist perspective on gender relations and natural resource management in the context of contemporary policy concerns: decentralized governance, the elimination of poverty and the "mainstreaming" of gender. Through a combination of strong conceptual argument and empirical material from a variety of political economic and ecological context (including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as South Asia), the book explores gender'environment linkages within shifting configurations of resource access and control. The book will serve as a core resource for students of gender studies and natural resource management, and as supplementary reading for a wide range of disciplines including geography, environmental studies, sociology and development. It will also provide a stimulating collection of ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender issues within their practice in sustainable development.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
Introduction
Gender, Environment and Natural Resource Management: New Dimensions, New Debates	p. 3
Contextualizing Gender and Natural Resource Governance in Neo-liberal Times
Gender, Doi Moi and Coastal Resource Management in the Red River Delta, Vietnam	p. 23
Intensification Regimes in Village-Based Silk Production, Northeast Thailand: Boosts (and Challenges) to Women's Authority	p. 43
Multi-Local Livelihoods, Natural Resource Management and Gender in Upland Indonesia	p. 67
Women's Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely Trends	p. 87
Gender Interventions: Targeting Women In Sustainable Development Projects
Autonomy Reconstituted: Social and Gender Implications of Resettlement on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia	p. 109
Do Women-Only Approaches to Natural Resource Management Help Women? The Case of Community Forestry in Nepal	p. 127
Gender, Legitimacy and Patronage-driven Participation: Fisheries Management in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia	p. 151
Gender, Microcredit and Conservation at Caohai: An Attempt to Link Women, Conservation and Development	p. 175
Responding to Intervention: Gender, Knowledge and Authority
Insider/Outsider Politics: Implementing Gendered Participation in Water Resource Management	p. 195
Gathered Indigenous Vegetables in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Gender Asset	p. 213
Religion, Gender and the Environment in Asia: Moving Beyond the Essentialisms of Spiritual Ecofeminism	p. 243
Index	p. 261
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