Women and Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the Future
Dankelman, Irene; Davidson, Jaon Publisher: Earthscan Publications, United Kingdom
Year Published: 1988
Pages: 210pp ISBN: 1-85383-003-8
Resource Type: Book
An account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. The autors describe ways in which women can organized to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
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Table of Contents
Authors' Preface
Foreword by The Hon. Mrs Victoria Chitepo
Introduction: Women Have Something to Say
Part I. Women, Environment and Natural Resources
1. Why Women?
2. Land: Women at the Centre of the Food Crisis
3. The Invisible Water Managers
4. Women and Forests: fuel, Food and Fodder
5. Women's Energy Crisis
6. Human Settlements: Women's Environment of Poverty
Part II. Women and Environmental Conservation
7. Women Working for Conservation
8. Training Women
9. Planning the Family: A Woman's Choice?
10. Women Organize Themselves
11. The International Response
12. Working Together for the Future
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Contributors
Index
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