Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry

by Bina Agarwal

Book Overview

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender. Research on gender and green governance in other disciplines has focused mainly on women's near absence from forestry institutions. This interdisciplinary book turns that focus on its head to ask: what if women were present in these institutions? What difference would that make?

Would women's inclusion in forest governance - undeniably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199683026
• ISBN13: 9780199683024
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"