Gender Equality and Sustainable Development

This book calls for policies, investments and initiatives in sustainable development that recognize women's knowledge, agency and decision-making as fundamental. Such gender-equitable approaches can improve resource productivity and efficiency and enhance ecosystem conservation and sustainable use. They can also build fairer and greener economies, and more sustainable, low-carbon and climate-resilient food, energy, water and sanitation, and health systems. Four key sets of issues - work and industrial production; population and reproduction; food and agriculture, and water, sanitation and energy - provide focal lenses through which the book's chapters consider these challenges.

List of contents

1. Sustainable Development: A Gendered Pathways Approach 2. Pathways towards Sustainability in the Context of Globalization: A Gendered Perspective on Growth, Macro Policy, and Employment 3. Population, Sustainable Development and Gender Equality 4. Re-framing Food Security as if Gender Equality and Sustainability Mattered 5. Gender and Land Grabs in Comparative Perspective 6. Transformative Investments for Gender-Equal Sustainable Development 7. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development: The Limits and Potential of Global Policy Reports

About the author

Melissa Leach is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Between 2006 and 2014 she directed the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Leach
• Assisted by: Melissa Leach (Editor), Leach Melissa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2015
• EAN: 9781138921306
• ISBN: 978-1-138-92130-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sociology, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Anthropology, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Feminism & feminist theory, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Environmental policy & protocols, Development Studies, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental policy and protocols