Gender and Sustainability - Lessons from Asia and Latin America

Addresses how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural resources-not in the abstract but in everyday life.

About the author

María Luz Cruz-Torres is an associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico, also published by the University of Arizona Press. Pamela McElwee is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.

Summary

Addresses how gender plays a role in helping to achieve the sustainable use of natural resources. The contributions deal with the struggles of women and men to negotiate such forces as global environmental change, economic development pressures, discrimination and stereotyping about the roles of women and men, and diminishing access to natural resources-not in the abstract but in everyday life.

Product details

• Assisted by: Maria Luz Cruz-Torres (Editor), María Luz Cruz-Torres (Editor), Pamela McElwee (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780816537952
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3795-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology