Taking Stands - Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities

Informationen zum Autor Maureen G. Reed is a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of Saskatchewan. Klappentext Goes beyond the dichotomies of "pro" and "anti" environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places. Zusammenfassung Goes beyond the dichotomies of “pro” and “anti” environmentalism to tell the stories of the women who seek to maintain resource use in rural places. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Seeing the Trees among Women in ForestryCommunities 2. Transition and Social Marginalization of Forestry Communities 3. Policy and Structural Change in Rural British Columbia 4. Women and Woods Work: The Gender of Forestry Jobs 5. Women's Lives, Husbands' Wives: "Managing"Forestry Communities 6. Communities Confront Outsiders 7. Fitting In: Making a Place for Gender in Environmental and LandUse Planning 8. Social Sustainability and the Renewal of Research Agendas Epilogue Appendix: Describing and Reflecting on Research Methods Notes References I ndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Maureen G. Reed, Maureen Gail Reed
• Editore: University Of Washington Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780774810180
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1018-0
• Pagine: 282
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Umweltschutz, Kanada, Dörfer, Landgemeinden, Agrarwirtschaft und primärer Sektor