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Why women will save the planet : a collection of articles for Friends of the Earth /
This provocative collection gathers essays and interviews from the leading lights of the international environmental and feminist movements to mount a powerful case that gender equality is essential to environmental progress. Up to now, women's issues have been largely ignored by major environm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Zed Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Women's empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements / Diane Elson
- Women as drivers of forest restoration to combat climate change / Wanjira Maathai
- Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand? / Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach
- Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainabilty through politics? / Caroline Lucas
- The institutionalisation and masculinisation of environmental knowledge / Susan Buckingham
- Media empowering women in southern Madagascar / Yvonne Orengo
- Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability : the role of gender / Julie A. Nelson
- The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change / Anna Fitzpatrick
- How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles / Celia Alldridge
- Hand in hand : women's empowerment and sustainabilty / Vandana Shiva
- Women's empowerment in sustainable agriculture / Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing
- The impacts of environmental mismanagement on Egypt's poor / Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf
- How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries / Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg
- Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society / Shukri Haji Ismail Bandara and Fatima Jibrell
- Gender, participation and community forestry : lessons from beneath the canopy / Esther Mwangi
- Putting gender equality at the heart of Oxfam's work / Barbara Stocking
- From individual to communal rights : empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources / Nidhi Tandon
- Mother Earth / Maria Mies
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights : a win-win for women and sustainability / Sarah Fisher
- The power of grassroots action for women's empowerment and the environment / Kate Metcalf and colleagues
- One hundred years of collective action for environmental change / Marylyn Haines Evans
- The impact of gender blaance in the renewable energy sector / Juliet Davenport
- More women in business for a sustainable economy / Emma Howard Boyd
- Sustainability is about people / FIona Reynolds
- Sexism and gender equality in British politics / Cathy Newman
- Mistresses of their own destiny : a history of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century British politics / Sarah Richardson.