A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Buechler, Stephanie; Hanson, Anne-Marie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume explores how a feminist political ecology framework can bring new and exciting insights to the study of livelihoods dependent on vulnerable rivers, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317749837
• Artikelnr.: 42511340

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Buechler is an Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Arizona, USA. Anne-Marie Hanson is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction: Towards a feminist political ecology of women,
global change and vulnerable waterscapes Part 1: Feminist Political Ecology
and Large-scale Water Resource Management 2. Interrogating Large-scale
Development and Inequality in Lesotho: Bridging Feminist Political Ecology,
Intersectionality and Environmental Justice Frameworks 3. The Silent (and
Gendered) Violence: Understanding Water Access in Mining Areas 4. Urban
Water Visibility in Los Angeles: Legibility and Access for all 5. Advances
and Setbacks in Women's Participation in Water Management in Brazil Part 2:
Women and Innovative Adaptations to Global Environmental Change 6.
Climate-water Challenges and Gendered Adaptation Strategies in Rayon, a
Riparian Community in Sonora, Mexico 7. International Partnerships of Women
for Sustainable Watershed Governance in Times of Climate Change 8. Women's
Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation in Egypt's Mubarak Resettlement
Scheme through Cactus Cultivation and Adjusted Irrigation Part 3: Stories,
Narratives and Knowledge Production of Socio-Environmental Change 9. Shoes
in the Seaweed and Bottles on the Beach: Global Garbage and Women's Oral
Histories of Socio-Environmental Change in Coastal Yucatán 10. Heen Kas'
el'ti Zoo: Among the Ragged Lakes - Storytelling and Collaborative Water
Research with Carcross/Tagish First Nation (Yukon Territory, Canada) 11.
Pamiri Women and the Melting Glaciers of Tajikistan: A Visual Knowledge
Exchange for Improved Environmental Governance 12. Conclusion: Advancing
Multi-Disciplinary Scholarship on Gender, Water and Environmental Change
through Feminist Political Ecology