This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender. It focuses on three major themes, including sustainability of development practices, policy perspectives on environmental management and climate change and its gendered impact. It includes contributions from academicians working across disciplines and practitioners working at the grassroots levels. The book addresses issues facing India amid a growing global environmental crisis and suggests policy measures for environmental protection and to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
Lucid and topical, the volume will be an indispensable resource for students, researchers of gender, environment and sustainable development, sociology and public policy. It will also be a great resource for advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policymakers working in the area.
This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender.
Introduction Part I: Macro Scenario and Environmental Discourses with
Gender Lens
1. Vulnerability, Gender and Environmental Stress: Value
Contestations in Sustainable Development Discourse
2. Need to Steer
Development Patterns through Womens Knowledge Systems
3. Women, Environment
and their Role in Environmental Movements in India
4. Feminist Pathways to
Sustainable Development Part II: Profile of Different Regions with regards to
Environmental & Developmental Challenges and Response
5. Interrogating
Relocation of Forest Dependent Communities from a Gender Lens: Perceptions
from the Kali Tiger Reserve in Karnataka
6. Managing Water, Sacrificing
Lives: The Lives of Women in Water Scarcity Areas (A Case of Life in the
Rural Bundelkhand Region in India)
7. Reparation or Negotiation: Rural
Women's Struggle for Selfhood & Livelihood in West Bengal
8. Gender
Responsive Infrastructure
9. Contribution of Field Action Projects (FAPs) to
Sustainable Development
10. Floods in Assam: Exploring the Gender Quotient
11. Access to Water, Womens Work and the Sustainable Development Goals in
East Delhi: An Ecofeminist Approach Part III: Strategies for Environmental
Safety and Sustainable Development
12. Clean Energy Technology and Gender and
Empowerment in Rural Odisha
13. Right Livelihood- Where Sustainable
Environment Matters: A Case of Sustainable Entrepreneurship by Rural Women
from India
14. Climate Change and the Female Sex: An Intangible Connection
15. From Marginal Land Holdings to New Farm Laws: Vulnerability, Visibility
and Sustainability of Women Farmers in India
16. Role of Women in Sustainable
Environmental Practices: With Special Reference to Dindigul District
17.
Pushed Further to Margins: Women Amid Climate Change
Shweta Prasad is a professor of Sociology and Director, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Banaras Hindu University, India. Over two decades of teaching, research, consulting and outreach experience have given her an incisive and penetrating intellectual ability for in-depth analysis of critical components of any phenomenon.
