Volume 26, Issue 1
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GENDER AND BIODIVERSITY: A FEMINIST POLITICAL ECOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary Biodiversity protection will depend, in large part, on restoring the balance between gendered rights and responsibilities and on an integrated vision of livelihood, life support and life?for?its?own sake. An example ... -
‘A FARM IS LIKE A CHILD WHO CANNOT BE LEFT UNGUARDED’: GENDER, LAND AND LABOUR IN CENTRAL PROVINCE, KENYA
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary This article examines the relationship between women and men and their environment in an area of intensively farmed smallholdings in Kenya. The case study demonstrates how their relationship is constantly renegotiated ... -
EDITORIAL: GENDER RELATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
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RUINED SETTLEMENTS AND NEW GARDENS: GENDER AND SOIL?RIPENING AMONG KURANKO FARMERS IN THE FOREST?SAVANNA TRANSITION ZONE
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary Focusing on a particular field?soil?vegetation complex ( tombondu ), this article considers how changing patterns of gendered resource use ? changing routines and sites of women's and men's work, and shifts in ... -
FROM CONJUGAL CONTRACTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS: SOME THOUGHTS ON LABOUR AND TECHNOLOGY
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary This article presents some material from an empirical study in Chivi Communal Area of southern Zimbabwe in an attempt to unravel the concepts of conjugal contracts and divisions of labour which have become unhelpfully ... -
GENDER, POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DEFORESTATION: A MALAYSIAN CASE STUDY
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary This article examines the impact of environmental change on competing livelihood systems in the Limbang District of Sarawak, Malaysia. Natural resource?dependent systems like those of upstream Penan and Kelabit ... -
THE IMPACT OF OUT?MIGRATION ON HOUSEHOLD LIVELIHOODS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: A KENYAN CASE STUDY
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary This article addresses some key issues relating to the management of household and natural resources within a situtuation of declining natural resource availability in Embu District, Kenya. The article examines ... -
BENEFITS AND BURDENS: RESEARCHING THE CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION IN THE SAHEL
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary This article is based on research which studied the consequences of out?migration from rural areas of the Sahel for women and environmental management. Research findings show that, although it may lead to an ... -
GENDER AND LIVELIHOODS IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary The agro?pastoral system in the mountains of Hunza and Nagar in Northern Pakistan is under severe pressure. Basic conditions are difficult (cultivation is on steep slopes formed of friable rock and scree, and ... -
WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT AND POPULATION: A MOROCCAN CASE STUDY
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary This Moroccan case study set out to look at the impact of environmental degradation (chiefly diminishing water supply and deforestation) on the population, and particularly women, of two sub?districts within the ... -
GENDER, ENVIRONMENT AND LIVELIHOOD SECURITY: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT FROM INDIA
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary Using a case study from India, this article examines the limitations of populist ecofeminist thought. The case study shows that both men and women assume interchangeable roles as destroyers and conservers of the ... -
REGENERATING INDIA'S FORESTS: RECONCILING GENDER EQUITY WITH JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary Among its basic objectives, the Indian National Forest Policy, 1988, emphasizes ‘meeting the requirements of fuelwood, fodder, minor forest produce and small timber of the rural and tribal populations’ and ‘creating ... -
INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1995)Summary The concept of integrated water resources management (WRM) is currently high on the international policy making agenda and has gained momentum as an approach important from both economic and environmental viewpoints. ...
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