"Women ... play an essential role in the management of natural resources, including soil, water, forests and energy ... and often have a profound traditional and contemporary knowledge of the natural world around them" - World Bank

Documents and Reports

• Environmental policy and Gender Issues
• Towards a Gender Analysis Framework to assist the application, adoption and use of Environmentally Sound Technologies
• UNIFEM: An Easy Reference to Specific Recommendations on Women in Agenda 21
• UNEP: Gender and Environment
• Gender Equality in Urban Environmental Management - A Case Book - Kyoko Kusakabe and Veena N.
• Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Environmental Management Projects: Lessons Learned from Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project - Kyoko Kusakabe and Jubaiya Jahan

  Quick Resources: One-pagers

• Gender and Environment
• Women's Health and the Environment
• Some Gender and Environment statistics
• Gender and Food Security
• Major Issues in Gender and Environment

  Resources on the 'Net

• UN conferences and summits have underlined the contribution of women to sustainable development, with clear gender perspectives in environmental management incorporated
  Visit -UNIFEM'S Experience in Sustainable Development

• 'Gender and Environment' is IUCN's learning community dedicated to research, documentation, and exchanges of expereinces that promote the mainstreaming of gender equity perspectives in the environmental management initiatives.
  Visit - http://www.genderandenvironment.org/

• WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.
  Visit - http://www.wedo.org/

• Bibliography and review of literature on ecofeminism.
  Visit - gopher://silo.adp.wisc.edu:70/00/.uwlibs/.womenstudies/.bibs/.ecofem

• Gender and Environment/ Gender and Globalisation: Women's ecology movements had shown how the dominant models of economic development and scientific progress have excluded women as producers of economic and intellectual value.
  Visit - http://www.indiaserver.com/betas/vshiva/gender.htm

• 'Gender and Environment' is IUCN's learning community dedicated to research, documentation, and exchanges of expereinces that promote the mainstreaming of gender equity perspectives in the environmental management initiatives.
  Visit - http://www.igenderandenvironment.org/

• The goal of EVE Online is to be more than just a repository of information on the Internet. It is hoped this site will evolve into an important resource for the international ecofeminist community
  Visit - http://www.enviroweb.org/eve/

• Ecofeminism on the Web:
  Visit - http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8385/ecofemlinks.html

  Specific Themes

• Gender and Transport

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