Gender and Sustainability

By Ruth S. Meinzen-Dick, C. Kovarik, A. Quisumbing. 2014

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Sustainability and gender have been prominent on the development agenda since the 1980s, but there has been little systematic study of the links between the two. This review draws on ecofeminist theory, feminist political ecology, intrahousehold literature, and natural resource management case studies and reviews to examine how gender shapes the motives, means, and opportunities for men and women to contribute to sustainability. Particular attention is given to evidence on closeness to nature, focus on conservation, rights to resources, opportunities to exploit resources, and constraints to adoption of sustainable practices. Despite early claims that women are naturally more conserving of resources, the empirical literature, in particular, gives a more mixed and nuanced picture. Conservation is influenced not only by gender but also by a host of tangible and intangible factors, including local ecology, context, and culture, that affect incentives and the ability to adopt sustainable extraction and provision practices.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Gender, Weather Shocks and Welfare: Evidence from Malawi (2018, background): “For an extensive review on gender and sustainability refer to Meinzen-Dick, Kovarik, and Quisumbing (2014).”
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation (2016, background): “3 scenario and seeks to understand the conditions under which this effect arises (Ferraro & Hanauer 2014).”
Approaches and terminology for causal analysis in land systems science (2016, methodology): “…cause for Y, but rather that X is part of a possible combination of factors that suffices to cause Y. Acknowledging this makes it possible to use the vocabulary of ‘causes’ even when we are unable to identify the full list of causes contributing to a combination (Ferraro & Hanauer, 2014a).”