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Gender and natural resource management : livelihoods, mobility and interventions /

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Corporate Authors: International Conference on Gender, Globalization, and Public Policy Asian Institute of Technology, ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Resurreccion, Bernadette P., Elmhirst, Rebecca
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2008.
Subjects:
Natural resources > Asia > Management > Congresses.
Women and the environment > Asia > Congresses.
Ecofeminism > Asia > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Gender, Environment and Natural Resource Management: New Dimensions, New Debates
  • Theorizing gender and environment: Conceptual antecedents and new theoretical pathways
  • Gender, environment and natural resource management in neo-liberal times
  • Gender interventions:The feminization of natural resource management
  • Gendered subjects: Knowledge and authority in natural resource management
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 1 Contextualizing Gender and Natural Resource Governance in Neo-liberal Times
  • Chapter 2 Gender, Doi Moi and Coastal Resource Management in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • The study area
  • History of mangrove management in Giao Lac village
  • Impact of economic reform:New institutions for shrimp and clam management and marine product collection
  • Differentiation in the harvesting of intertidal coastal products
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 3 Intensification Regimes in Village-Based Silk Production, Northeast Thailand: Boosts (and Challenges) to Women's Authority
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Theory
  • Evolution of the Thai silk industry
  • Traditional local species silk production
  • Government-promoted Thai hybrid species production
  • Industry-promoted silk production using imported species
  • Overall comparisons and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 4 Multi-Local Livelihoods, Natural Resource Management and Gender in Upland Indonesia
  • Introduction
  • Gender performed in migrant livelihoods
  • Resource governance, livelihood trajectories and gender in Lampung
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Women's Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely Trends
  • Introduction
  • Land arrangements in China
  • Land rights and women's participation in agriculture
  • Data
  • Land reallocation in rural China
  • Women's land rights at the village level
  • Explaining inter-village differences in women's land rights
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 2 Gender Interventions:Targeting Women in Sustainable Development Projects
  • Chapter 6 Autonomy Reconstituted: Social and Gender Implications of Resettlement on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia
  • Introduction
  • Method
  • State-led dam resettlement, Orang Asli land and resources rights
  • Changing framework of land property and access: The effect on women's access and rights to land
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Do Women-Only Approaches to Natural Resource Management Help Women? The Case of Community Forestry in Nepal
  • Introduction
  • The social and research context: Community and forestry in Rapti
  • Women-only forest user groups
  • Looking at women-only FUGs through the equity lens
  • The share of benefits
  • What is the value of women-only spaces?
  • Why isn't community forestry a gendertransformative policy?
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 8 Gender, Legitimacy and Patronage-driven Participation: Fisheries Management in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia
  • Introduction
  • Gender-embedded institutions
  • History of patronage, resource co.