Area of Focus: Women and the Environment

Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: Sep 27, 2008

Women and the Environment

photo source	Women and the environment addresses the relationship between women and their environment, including the role of women in environmental protection, environmental leadership, and environmental education; environmental health and the impacts of pollution on women's health; and the empowerment of women through environmental restoration and conservation work. Keywords ecofeminism, gender perspective and sustainable development, environmental decision-making, environmental health, environmental health and women, women's empowerment through conservation, women's environmental leadership, environmental justice
Key People: Margaret Mead,Rachel Carson,Wangari Maathai

Women In Action

Armenian Women for Health & a Healthy Environmentis an NGO working to decrease the harmful impacts of toxic pollutants on the environment and human health.

Lambi Fund for Haiti assists the popular, democratic movement in Haiti.

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"Women will not simply be mainstreamed
into the polluted stream. Women are
changing the stream, making it clean and
green and safe for all- every gender,
race, creed, sexual orientation,
age, and ability."
-Bella Abzug

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News

Women's Environment and Development Organisation WEDO is currently seeking a Gender and Governance (GG) Program Coordinator! The GG program works for women's equal participation and representation, especially in global institutions and governmental decision-making positions.

Asia Regional Workshop on Solar Cooking and Food Processing
16-17 April 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal is one of the organising parties for this 2-day workshop. The main objective of the workshop is to promote solar cooking and food processing in Asia, as well as share best practices and experiences on various solar cooking and food processing technologies.

Resources

Women, Energy and Water

in the Himalayas

Integration of Women in Planning and Management

Diverting the Flow

A Resource Guide to Gender, Rights and Water Privatization

Women and the Environment

Exposes the links between women and the environment with an explicit focus on gender. Published by WEDO and UNEP

Our Planet: Women, Health and the Environment

This is a special edition of UNEP’s magazine Our Planet, available for download from the UNEP website.

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luisgutierrez 5 months ago

The following has just been posted and is open access:

Solidarity, Sustainability, and Nonviolence V4 N5 May 2008
           Theme: The Nuptial Dimension of Sustainable Development
                http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n05.html

To view the home page of this project ....
              http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisust.html

To view the status on the current series on "dimensions of sustainable development" ....
              http://www.pelicanweb.org/monthlyfocus.html

QUESTIONS:

   CAN YOU SUGGEST OTHER RELEVANT DIMENSIONS?
   CAN YOU SUGGEST GOOD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS?
   CAN YOU SUGGEST METHODS TO ANALYZE INTER-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIONS?

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD
The Pelican Web
Editor, SSNV Research Newsletter

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