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Why women will save the planet : a collection of articles for Friends of the Earth / edited by Jenny Hawley.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London, UK : Zed Books, 2015Description: xx, 279 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781783605798
  • 1783605790
  • 9781783605804
  • 1783605804
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Jenny Hawley -- Women's empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements / Diane Elson -- Women as drivers of forest restoration to combat climate change / Wanjira Maathai -- Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand? / Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach -- Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainability through politics? / Caroline Lucas -- The institutionalisation and masculinisation of environmental knowledge / Susan Buckingham -- Media empowering women in southern Madagascar / Yvonne Orengo -- Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability : the role of gender / Julie A. Nelson -- The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change / Anna Fitzpatrick -- How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles / Celia Alldridge -- Hand in hand : women's empowerment and sustainability / Vandana Shiva -- Women's empowerment in sustainable agriculture / Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing -- The impacts of environmental mismanagement on Egypt's poor / Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf -- How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? : selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries / Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg -- Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society / Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell -- Gender, participation and community forestry : lessons from beneath the canopy / Esther Mwangi -- Putting gender equality at the heart of Oxfam's work / Barbara Stocking -- From individual to communal rights : empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources / Nidhi Tandon -- Mother Earth / Maria Mies -- Sexual and reproductive health and rights : a win-win for women and sustainability / Sarah Fisher -- The power of grassroots action for women's empowerment and the environment / Kate Metcalf and colleagues -- One hundred years of collective action for environmental change / Marylyn Haines Evans -- The impact of gender balance in the renewable energy sector / Juliet Davenport -- More women in business for a sustainable economy / Emma Howard Boyd -- Sustainability is about people / Fiona Reynolds -- Sexism and gender equality in British politics / Cathy Newman -- Mistresses of their own destiny : a history of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century British politics / Sarah Richardson
Summary: This provocative collection gathers essays and interviews from the leading lights of the international environmental and feminist movements to mount a powerful case that gender equality is essential to environmental progress. Up to now, women's issues have been largely ignored by major environmental and conservation groups, but contributors like Vandana Shiva, Caroline Lucas, and Maria Mies help us see the undeniable links between the two. Using specific case studies, the contributors lay out the ways in which women's issues intersect with environmental issues, and they detail concrete steps that organizations and campaigners big and small can take to ensure that they are pursuing these goals in tandem. A rallying cry designed to unify--and thus strengthen--two crucial movements in the global fight for social justice, this book will spur action and, crucially, collaboration.
List(s) this item appears in: Sustainability
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks GE195.9 .W49 2015 1 Available 33039001404812

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279)

Introduction / Jenny Hawley -- Women's empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements / Diane Elson -- Women as drivers of forest restoration to combat climate change / Wanjira Maathai -- Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand? / Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach -- Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainability through politics? / Caroline Lucas -- The institutionalisation and masculinisation of environmental knowledge / Susan Buckingham -- Media empowering women in southern Madagascar / Yvonne Orengo -- Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability : the role of gender / Julie A. Nelson -- The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change / Anna Fitzpatrick -- How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles / Celia Alldridge -- Hand in hand : women's empowerment and sustainability / Vandana Shiva -- Women's empowerment in sustainable agriculture / Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing -- The impacts of environmental mismanagement on Egypt's poor / Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf -- How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? : selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries / Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg -- Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society / Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell -- Gender, participation and community forestry : lessons from beneath the canopy / Esther Mwangi -- Putting gender equality at the heart of Oxfam's work / Barbara Stocking -- From individual to communal rights : empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources / Nidhi Tandon -- Mother Earth / Maria Mies -- Sexual and reproductive health and rights : a win-win for women and sustainability / Sarah Fisher -- The power of grassroots action for women's empowerment and the environment / Kate Metcalf and colleagues -- One hundred years of collective action for environmental change / Marylyn Haines Evans -- The impact of gender balance in the renewable energy sector / Juliet Davenport -- More women in business for a sustainable economy / Emma Howard Boyd -- Sustainability is about people / Fiona Reynolds -- Sexism and gender equality in British politics / Cathy Newman -- Mistresses of their own destiny : a history of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century British politics / Sarah Richardson

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