Gender Relations and Environmental Change [Editorial]
In recent years, linkages between gender and the environment have become an important focus both of research and of development policy and practice. They figured strongly at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, 1992, and seem set to do so in the forthcoming Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At IDS, gender–environment relations have been a major theme of recent work, with the Environment Group linking into the Institute's long tradition of work on gender and development. We have been interested in gender relations as integral to the social and economic organization which mediates people's relationships with particular environments. And we have been concerned with gender as a key dimension of social difference affecting people's experiences, concerns and capabilities in natural resource management. Researching the two-way relationships between gender relations and environmental change in a variety of settings, we have also attempted to integrate gender issues into analysis of environment and sustainable development policies in ways which will lead to progressive change for women.
These are the concerns underlying the present IDS Bulletin, which brings together findings from some of the latest IDS-related research on gender–environment relations with the work of other leading scholars and practitioners in the field.
History
Publisher
Institute of Development StudiesCitation
Leach, M.; Joekes, S. and Green, C. (2025) 'Editorial: Gender Relations and Environmental Change', IDS Bulletin 56.1A: 28–35, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2025.106Editors
Melissa Leach Ian ScoonesSeries
IDS BulletinVolume
56Issue
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