1st Edition
Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development Challenges and Responses from India
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 addresses issues facing India amid a growing global environmental crisis and suggests policy measures for environmental protection and to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
Lucid and topical, the volume will be an indispensable resource for students, researchers of gender, environment and sustainable development, sociology and public policy. It will also be a great resource for advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policymakers working in the area.
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.
- 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
- 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
- Contribution of Field Action Projects (FAPs) to Sustainable Development
Geeta Balakrishnan
- Floods in Assam: Exploring the Gender Quotient
Nasmeem Akhtar
- 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
- Clean Energy Technology and Gender and Empowerment in Rural Odisha
Sunita Dhal, Linda Lane and Nilima Srivastava
- “Right Livelihood”- Where Sustainable Environment Matters: A Case of Sustainable Entrepreneurship by Rural Women from India
Sangeeta Desai and Ashish Desai
- Climate Change and the Female Sex: An Intangible Connection
Biswarupa Ghosh
- From Marginal Land Holdings to New Farm Laws: Vulnerability, Visibility and Sustainability of Women Farmers in India
Khevana Desai
- Role of Women in Sustainable Environmental Practices: With Special Reference to Dindigul District
K. Velumani
- 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.
