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Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Responses from India book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development Challenges and Responses from India

Edited By Shweta Prasad Copyright 2024
276 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

276 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

276 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender. It focuses on three major themes, including sustainability of development practices, policy perspectives on environmental management and climate change and its gendered impact. It includes contributions from academicians working across disciplines and practitioners working at the grassroots levels. The book... Read more

Introduction

Shweta Prasad

 

Part I

Macro Scenario and Environmental Discourses with Gender Lens

 

1.  Vulnerability, Gender and Environmental Stress: Value Contestations in Sustainable Development Discourse

    Janki Andharia and Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind

 

2.  Need to Steer Development Patterns through Women’s Knowledge Systems

    Vijaylakshmi Brara

 

3.  Women, Environment and their Role in Environmental Movements in India

    Jyoti Prasad Saikia and Suravi Pathak

 

4.  Feminist Pathways to Sustainable Development

          Premula Raman

 

Part II

Profile of Different Regions with regards to Environmental & Developmental Challenges and Responses

 

5.      Interrogating Relocation of Forest Dependent Communities from a Gender Lens: Perceptions from the Kali Tiger Reserve in Karnataka

             R. Indira and Shanthi G.

 

  1. Managing Water, Sacrificing Lives: The Lives of Women in Water Scarcity Areas (A Case of Life in the Rural Bundelkhand Region in India)

             Sushil Kumar and Deep Shikha

 

  1. Reparation or Negotiation: Rural Women's Struggle for Selfhood & Livelihood in West Bengal

      Nibedita Bayen and Shilajit Sengupta

 

8.      Gender Responsive Infrastructure

             Sunayana J. Kadle

 

  1. Contribution of Field Action Projects (FAPs) to Sustainable Development

             Geeta Balakrishnan

 

  1. Floods in Assam: Exploring the Gender Quotient

              Nasmeem Akhtar

 

  1. Access to Water, Women’s Work and the Sustainable Development Goals in East Delhi: An Ecofeminist Approach

            Sheela Suryanarayanan, Rajib Nandi and Shrishti Sharma

 

Part III

Strategies for Environmental Safety and Sustainable Development

 

 

  1. Clean Energy Technology and Gender and Empowerment in Rural Odisha

             Sunita Dhal, Linda Lane and Nilima Srivastava

 

  1. “Right Livelihood”- Where Sustainable Environment Matters: A Case of Sustainable Entrepreneurship by Rural Women from India

             Sangeeta Desai and Ashish Desai

 

  1. Climate Change and the Female Sex: An Intangible Connection

              Biswarupa Ghosh

 

  1. From Marginal Land Holdings to New Farm Laws: Vulnerability, Visibility and Sustainability of Women Farmers in India

             Khevana Desai

 

  1. Role of Women in Sustainable Environmental Practices: With Special Reference to Dindigul District

             K. Velumani

 

  1. Pushed Further to Margins: Women Amid Climate Change

             Simi Mehta

 

Biography

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.

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