This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology
framework can bring fresh insights to the study of rural and urban
livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, lakes, watersheds,
wetlands and coastal environments. Bringing together political
ecologists and feminist scholars from multiple disciplines, the
book develops solution-oriented advances to theory, policy and
planning to tackle the complexity of these global environmental
changes. Using applied research on the contemporary management of
groundwater, springs, rivers, lakes, watersheds and coastal
wetlands in Central and South Asia, Northern, Central and Southern
Africa, and South and North America, the authors draw on a variety
of methodological perspectives and new theoretical approaches to
demonstrate the importance of considering multiple layers of social
difference as produced by and central to the effective governance
and local management of water resources. This unique collection
employs a unifying feminist political ecology framework that
emphasizes the ways that gender interacts with other social and
geographical locations of water resource users. In doing so, the
book further questions the normative gender discourses that
underlie policies and practices surrounding rural and urban water
management and climate change, water pollution, large-scale
development and dams, water for crop and livestock production and
processing, resource knowledge and expertise, and critical
livelihood studies. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of environmental studies, development studies, feminist
and environmental geography, anthropology, sociology, environmental
philosophy, public policy, planning, media studies, Latin American
and other area studies, as well as women's and gender studies.
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