Course Contents
GDS – 601: Gender and Environment
1. Concepts, Issues and Perspectives of Environment
1.1. Gender and the Environment
1.2. Conceptualizing environmental collective action: Why gender matters
1.3. Environmental Justice at the Crossroads
1.4. The Gender and Environment Debate
1.5. Gender, environment and sustainable environment: Understanding the linkages
2. Social Construction of Nature
2.1. The "Environmental Justice" Frame: A Conceptual Discussion and an Application*
2.2. Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment
2.3. Social Problems and Cultural Choices
2.4. The Environmental Consequence of Modernity
3. Emerging perspectives on gender and environment
3.1. Relationship between Woman and Nature
3.2. Is the domination of women and nature rooted in patriarchal ideology?
3.3. Feminist critiques of science and western concepts of "development"
3.4. Relationship of gender division of labor structure and the natural world
4. Environmental degradation and the struggle for survival
4.1. The Green Revolution and its impacts on food production
4.2. Cash crop production, appropriation and degradation of land
4.3. Affect of environmental degradation on the lives of poor women
4.4. Women, water, fuel and forest resources
4.5 Soil degradation, Land scarcity and food security
4.5. Gender division of labor and environmental impacts on women's work
4.6. Environmental Action, Gender Equity and Women's Participation agarwal
4.7. Poverty, survival and women's roles in maintaining the means of sustenance
4.8. Gender and solid waste management
5. Ecological feminism
5.1. Eco-gender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science
5.2. A feminist political ecology perspective
5.3. Rural poverty and impoverished theory: Cultural populism, ecofeminism, and global justice
5.4. Introducing new feminist political ecologies
5.5. Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?
6. Gender Development and Disaster
6.1. Introduction to disaster, vulnerability and risk
6.2. Gender as construct
6.3. Integrating women and gender into development
6.4. Gender actions for response and rescue
6.5. Livelihoods and coping strategies
6.6. Social networks and community response
6.7. Gender issues in reconstruction
6.8. The impact of reconstruction on women and households: The case of Nicaragua
6.9. Case studies of secondary disasters
6.10. Disaster Risk Reduction
6.11. Feminization of development and disaster discourse
7. Gender in Environment and climate change
7.1. Women’s under representation in environment decision making institutions
7.2. Gender differences in adaptation and mitigation strategies
7.3. Gender differences in the effects of climate change
8. Political action and cultural transformation
8.1. Environmental Ethics and Spiritual Ecofeminism
8.2. Local stories of women and environmental action
Gender and solid waste management
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Book Title : Gender Development and Disasters
Author : Sarah Brdshaw
Edition : 1
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Book Title : Gender and solid waste management
Author : Koyoko Kusakabe
Edition : 1
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Title : Gender and environment
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Title : Gender environment and sustainable development understanding the linkages
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Title : The Gender and Environment Debate
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Title : conceptualizing environmental collective action
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Title : Environmental Justice at the Crossroads
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Title : Footprints on the Earth The Environmental Consequences of Modernity
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Title : The Environmental Justice Frame A Conceptual Discussion and an Application
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Title : Eco-gender Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science
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Title : Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture
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Title : Rural poverty and impoverished theory Cultural populism ecofeminism and global justice
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Title : Gender and Environment Feminist Political Ecology
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Title : The No 1 Ladies Poultry Farm A feminist political ecology of urban agriculture in Botswana
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Title : Gender Development and Disasters
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Title : Forests Women and Health
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Title : Gender and the environment Traps and opportunities
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Title : Gender perspective on the factors predicting recycling behavior
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Title : Gender_Situation_in_Urban_Environmental_Management
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Title : Rural Women, Poverty and Natural Resources Sustenance, Sustainability and Struggle
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Title : The Nature of Gender work, gender and environment
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Title : environmental actions gender equity and women's participation
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Title : Environmental Ethics and Spiritual Ecofeminism
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Title : Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment
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Title : Naturework and the Taming of the Wild The Problem of Overpick
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Title : The Environmental Consequence of Modernity
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Title : The Environmental Justice Frame A Conceptual Discussion and an Application
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Title : The impact of green revolution
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Title : Gender differences in climate change and adaptation strategies
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Title : Gender Differences in Climate Change
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Title : Gender-and-Adaptation
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Title : Introducing new feminist political ecologies
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Title : Effects of Degraded Environmental Conditions on Women Empowerment in Slums of Four Cities of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan by Hina Lotia
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Title : Land degradation
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Title : Food Security
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Title : Land Degradation
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Title : Soil Degradation, Land Scarcity and Food Security
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Title : Gender and Household-Level Responses to Soil Degradation in Honduras
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