Shweta Prasad

Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development

Challenges and Responses from India
Herausgeber: Prasad, Shweta

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781032628417
• ISBN-10: 1032628413
• Artikelnr.: 68715383

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Women's 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, Women's 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