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This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource
exploitation and management, with a focus on South and Southeast
Asia. It provides an exploration of the uneasy negotiations between
theory, policy and practice that are often evident within the realm
of gender, environment and natural resource management, especially
where gender is understood as a political, negotiated and contested
element of social relationships. It offers a critical feminist
perspective on gender relations and natural resource management in
the context of contemporary policy concerns: decentralized
governance, the elimination of poverty and the "mainstreaming" of
gender.Through a combination of strong conceptual argument and
empirical material from a variety of political economic and
ecological context (including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as South Asia), the book
explores gender-environment linkages within shifting configurations
of resource access and control. The book will serve as a core
resource for students of gender studies and natural resource
management, and as supplementary reading for a wide range of
disciplines including geography, environmental studies, sociology
and development. It will also provide a stimulating collection of
ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender issues within
their practice in sustainable development.
The Mekong Region has come to represent many of the important water
governance challenges faced more broadly by the mainland Southeast
Asian region. This book focuses on the complex nature of water
rights and social justice in the Mekong region. The chapters delve
into the diverse social, political and cultural dynamics that shape
the various realities and scales of water governance in the region,
in an effort to bring to the forefront some of the local nuances
required in the formulation of a larger vision of justice in water
governance. It is hoped that this contextualized analysis will
deepen our understanding of the potential of, and constraints, on
water rights in the region, particularly in relation to the need to
realize social justice. The authors show how vitally important it
is that water governance is democratized to allow a more equitable
sharing of water resources and counteract the pressures of economic
growth that may pose risks to social welfare and environmental
sustainability.
The Mekong Region has come to represent many of the important water
governance challenges faced more broadly by the mainland Southeast
Asian region. This book focuses on the complex nature of water
rights and social justice in the Mekong region. The chapters delve
into the diverse social, political and cultural dynamics that shape
the various realities and scales of water governance in the region,
in an effort to bring to the forefront some of the local nuances
required in the formulation of a larger vision of justice in water
governance. It is hoped that this contextualized analysis will
deepen our understanding of the potential of, and constraints, on
water rights in the region, particularly in relation to the need to
realize social justice. The authors show how vitally important it
is that water governance is democratized to allow a more equitable
sharing of water resources and counteract the pressures of economic
growth that may pose risks to social welfare and environmental
sustainability.
This book is about the gender dimensions of natural resource
exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the
uneasy negotiations between theory, policy and practice that are
often evident within the realm of gender, environment and natural
resource management, especially where gender is understood as a
political, negotiated and contested element of social
relationships. It offers a critical feminist perspective on gender
relations and natural resource management in the context of
contemporary policy concerns: decentralized governance, the
elimination of poverty and the 'mainstreaming' of gender. Through a
combination of strong conceptual argument and empirical material
from a variety of political economic and ecological contexts
(including Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand
and Vietnam), the book examines gender-environment linkages within
shifting configurations of resource access and control. The book
will serve as a core resource for students of gender studies and
natural resource management, and as supplementary reading for a
wide range of disciplines including geography, environmental
studies, sociology and development. It also provides a stimulating
collection of ideas for professionals looking to incorporate gender
issues within their practice in sustainable development. Published
with IDRC.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) claim to offer
some solutions for better disaster preparedness. Likewise, some
disaster management information have failed due to its limited
understanding of social and technological aspects for
communications and some may even reinforce gender inequalities.
This study explores an integrated approach of gender, livelihoods,
ICTs and non-ICTs communications to flood management. Early warning
strategies, during flood interventions and post flood recoveries
are discussed and analyzed in communities of Laotian and Tompoun
ethnic groups along the Cambodia Sesan River, who experienced the
Ketsana typhoon in 2009. It shows how access to and control of ICTs
and in flood management is not just male centred but also
authoritative in nature and reproducing the male bread-winner
model. Thus, the findings demonstrate the importance of how ICTs
and non-ICT tools must be combined to effectively enhancing flood
management and emphasize that further ICTs policies and gender
approaches related to flood management should be enhanced.
The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a
concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity
in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to
examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity
and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of social power
from institutions and their emerging discourses. Individual
chapters, written by gender scholars from Europe and Asia,
critically examine the concept of gender in the context of emerging
development issues relating to four broad thematic areas: 'Gender
over Time', 'Power, Policy and Practices', 'Environment and
Resources', and 'Justice and Human Rights'. In so doing, they also
address how gender has been changed, both as a normative process
influencing social roles and relations and as an object and/or a
concept of research.
The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a
concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity
in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to
examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity
and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of social power
from institutions and their emerging discourses. Individual
chapters, written by gender scholars from Europe and Asia,
critically examine the concept of gender in the context of emerging
development issues relating to four broad thematic areas: 'Gender
over Time', 'Power, Policy and Practices', 'Environment and
Resources', and 'Justice and Human Rights'. In so doing, they also
address how gender has been changed, both as a normative process
influencing social roles and relations and as an object and/or a
concept of research.
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