Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical SynthesisZed Books, 1994 - 220 Seiten There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempy to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development.Among the current critiques of the Western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant development model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy.The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift - emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace.This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women. |
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The Global Crisis of Environment | 1 |
A Discourse of Power | 17 |
Feminist Critiques of Science | 29 |
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Agenda 21 alternative development analysis androcentrism approach argues Bookchin challenge changes Chapter Chipko movement coalitions concept Conference contribution countries critics of science critique culture DAWN deep ecology development agencies developmental discourse dualism ecofeminism ecofeminist ecologists economic growth empowerment environment and development environment and sustainable environmental crisis environmental degradation environmental movements epistemological example female feminism feminist critics forestry framework Gaia Gaia hypothesis gender Global Forum groups Haraway hierarchies human important institutions INSTRAW issues knowledge levels mainstream male mode of development natural resources NGOs North Northern organizations patriarchal perspective planet political population growth positions post-modernism poverty preparatory process problems production programmes proposals radical relations role scientific seen Shiva social ecology society South specific strategies stress structures struggles sustainable development theoretical thinking Third World tradition transformations UNCED UNCED process Vandana Shiva WED debate women women's movement World Bank
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