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Selected Sources-Women, Environment and Development
compiled by Marlene Roy, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Aburdene, Patricia and John Naisbitt. Megatrends for women. New York: Villard Books, 1992. xxiv, 388 p.
Contents: Women in politics: the road to the US presidency; The sporting life; Women at work: opportunity, leadership, and balance; To hell with sexism: women in religion; The menopause megatrend; Collaborative couples; Fashion: top down to bottom up; The family revival; The goddess reawakening; Save the world: women as social activists; Women in the new world order
ADAB, Ecumenical Institute for Development of Peoples; INODEP-Asia and Asian Cultural Forum on Development. Plant trees for shade, preserve water for life - Environment and development : a sub-regional perspective. Bangkok: ACFOD, 1991. 117 p.
Notes: Proceedings of a workshop organised by ADAB (Bangladesh), INODEP-ASIA and ACFOD Bangkok 1991. Includes references
Contents: Introduction; A brief history on the workshop; Environment - a casualty of economic centered development: a case study of Bangladesh; Women, nature and environment; Child and environment; Tribal communities and deforestation: the Madhupur Garh case; Dilemma of development and the environment: the danger of eco-fundamentalism; On the dangers to the Himalaya; On energy sources and conservation; Report of the workshop.
Abstract: This workshop brought together NGOs from Nepal, Bangladesh and India to explore ways and means to integrate a range of vital environmental concerns with the development process. The NGOs in South-Asia are largely working with the poor and dispossessed who bear the brunt of the effects of environmental degradation.
Alderman, Harold. "Unitary versus collective models of the household : is it time to shift the burden of proof?" World Bank research observer 10 (February 1995): 1-19. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1995. 19 p.
Notes: Includes references
Allen, Tim and Alan Thomas (eds.) Poverty and development in the 1990s. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press, 1992. 421 p. : ill.
Contents: (Selected): Understanding famine and hunger; Unemployment and making a living; Is the world overpopulated?; Environmental degradation and sustainability; Development, capitalism and the nation state; A Third World in the making: diversity in pre-capitalist societies; Labour regimes and social change under colonialism; Socialist models of development; The Third World in the new global order; Democratization of Third World states; Gender matters in development; Technology in development; Taking culture seriously; Ethnicity and class: the case of the East Africa "Asians"
Anderson, Elizabeth. Value in ethics and economics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. 245 p.
Notes: Includes references
Contents: (Selected): A pluralist theory of value; Monistic theories of value; The ethical limitations of the market; Is women's labor a commodity?; Cost-benefit analysis, safety and environmental quality
Armstrong, Liz and Adrienne Scott. Whitewash : exposing the health and environmental dangers of women's sanitary products and disposable diapers - what you can do about it. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. 194 p.
Notes: Includes references
Contents: Chlorine: the curse of bright white paper; Pulp, paper and other consuming passions; Sanitary napkins: padding the bottom line; Disposable diapers: a rash of misinformation; Tampons, part one: the big flush; Tampons, part two: Toxic Shock Syndrome - too high a price; Whitewash: everything but the whole truth; Ragtime revisited: the case for reusables; How British women beat them on the bleaches; The power of one, the glory of many.
Abstract: The authors' goal is to inform women about the sanitary products they use everyday and their harmful effects on the environment. North American women purchase over 80 of all day-to-day goods and services - and virtually all sanitary napkins, tampons and disposable diapers. What most women don't know is that these products are made or bleached with chlorine gas and other chlorine-based compounds. The process of making these "whiter-than-white" paper products creates toxic chemicals which are dumped by the ton into lakes, rivers and oceans causing serious health and environmental risks. By providing the reader with accurate information and environmentally friendly alternatives, the authors hope to inspire women to demand chlorine-free sanitary products and encourage them to do more to help heal the environment.
Asian and Pacific Development Centre. Environment. Asia and Pacific Pacific Women's Resource and Action Series. Kuala Lumpur: APDC, 1992. 237 p.
Notes: Includes annotated bibliography, references, and resources
Contents: Introduction; Forest dwellers and tribal communities; Agriculture-based communities; Coastal and sea-based communities; Urban-based communities; Other environmental issues; Resources.
Abstract: The book reflects the ideas, perspectives, material, strategies and action in the 1980s and early 1990s of women in the region extending from China and Pakistan to the Solomon Islands and Fiji. The discussion of environment has been placed within the context of communities of resource users thereby describing the varied ecological relationships of women with their immediate environment. Specific environmental problems such as fuelwood shortage, water and sanitation problems and various forms of pollution are discussed within these communities. More general evironmental concerns such as the 'greenhouse effect' and the depleting ozone layer are dealt with in a separate chapter on other environmental issues. Basic facts on the issues are presented, allowing for an inter-country comparison of women and environment issues on which there has been little previous regional documentation.
Association for Women in Development. Conference report. 1991.
Conference: Fifth International Forum: Learning Together Working Together - A South-North Dialogue, Nov.21-24, 1991, Washington, D.C.
Australia. Office of the Status of Women. Women and the environment : a statement prepared....for the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, June 1992 Canberra, AU: Australia, 1992. 22 p.
Notes: Includes references
Boschman, Hermien and Sandra Classen. Strategies for action on population, women and environment: south-north alliances on alternatives to population policies. Amsterdam: Both ENDS, 1994. 48 p.
Contents: Introduction; Country reports: Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Kenya, the Netherlands; Specific issues; Strategies for action on population, women and environment.
Abstract: The report provides a short general introduction on the International Conference on Population and Development which took place in Cairo, Egypt in September 1994, as well as an overview of the major elements of the country reports of Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Kenya and the Netherlands on population, women and environment. The second part of the report contains strategies for action in view of Cairo on specific issues, for example Structural Adjustment Programmes, the research and dissemination of contraceptives, and networking and sharing of information between NGOs in the South and the North.
Braidotti, Rosi (et al.) Women, the environment and sustainable development: towards a theoretical synthesis. London: Zed Books, 1994. 220 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Braidotti, Rosi (et al). Negotiating for change: debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. London: Zed Books, 1993. 224 p.
Brandt, Barbara. Whole life economics: revaluing daily life. Philadelphia, PA: New Society, 1995. 243 p.
Notes: Includes selected bibliography
Contents: The problem of economic invisibility; The problem of economic addiction; Beyond the textbooks: the economics of daily life; Beyond economic addictions: making decisions that empower.
Abstract: This book describes a new economics emerging in the world today, an
economics that more fully meets human needs, supports personal and community relationships, promotes justice and empowerment, and is more respectful of the natural environment than our officially recognized economic systems. It explains why this new economics is now emerging, and how it can be made more a reality in people's lives and communities.
Bullock, Susan. Women and work. Women and world development series. London: Zed Books, 1994. 160 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Buvinic, Mayra and Margaret A. Lycette. Women, poverty and development in the Third World. Washington DC: International Center for Research on Women, 1988. 13 p.
Abstract: This chapter summarizes evidence on women's share of poverty in developing economies and on their contributions to developing-country households. It goes on to examine the effectiveness of past and current development interventions in meeting the needs of poor women. The authors then review briefly how developent action was structured in the past decade to address women's poverty; what lessons have been learned; and what the impact of the changed development agenda in the mid-1980s has been on women's poverty and on development programs for women. Some recommendations for addressing the gender dimension in Third World poverty are included at the end.
Buvinic, Mayra. Women and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: a primer for policy makers. Washington DC: International Center for Research on Women, 1990. 64pp
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Abstract: This chapter links required changes in policies with evidence regarding women's socioeconomic participation, their economic needs (or poverty), and their economic contributions, and derives general guidelines for policymakers based on this evidence and on lessons learned from project experience. It does not offer prescriptions; rather it provides a context in which policymakers can think of women as economic actors and use indicators of women's social and economic situation to mold and define public policy. - Author
Canada. National Advisory Board on Science and Technology. Human Resources Committee. [Winning with women]: report on women in trades, technology, science, and engineering. Ottawa: The Advisory Board, 1993. 135, 139 p.
Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre. Women and economic restructuring. Ottawa: CLMPC, 1994. 2 v.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Contents: Introduction; Women in the labour force: demographics and the shape of change; Structural shifts and new employment patterns; New fields for women; Case studies in workplace change; Case studies in adjustment; Case studies in access to capital; Case studies in new fields for women; Options and recommendations; Conclusion.
Abstract: The report is structured as follows: Part I introduces the broad issues and challenges posed by the process of economic change, and outlines the goals of this project on Women and Economic Restructuring. Part II provides a picture of the changing face of the Canadian labour market, and underlines the dimensions of demographic change that are transforming our social climate. Part III examines shifts in women's occupational and employment patterns, the transformation of the economy from goods to services, and the pressures that globalization and technology are bringing to bear on employment trends and job growth throughout the economy. In Part IV, the report takes a brief look at women's roles as entrepreneurs and innovators, and examines the realities of restructuring for women who opt for less conventional careers. Part V considers case studies in which labour and business have attempted to promote positive workplace change; develop strategies to ameliorate adjustment; create a better balance between the demands of work and the family; and enhance employment options for women in less conventional careers. Finally, Part VI sketches options and recommendations from business and labour which are intended to focus on how women's potential contributions to the economy can be optimized, and how Canada's social infrastructure can be made more accomodating to women's participation in the workforce.
Canadian Woman Studies. " Women and the Environment." Canadian Woman Studies 13(n3). Toronto: York University, 1993. 112pp.
Notes: Special issue on women and the environment
The Commonwealth of Learning. Women: key partners in sustainable and equitable development : resource materials on women and sustainable development. Vancouver: COL, 1994. 113 p.
Notes: Includes selected bibliography
Contents: Introduction: women, enviroment and development: the linkages; The resource material - success stories of women and the environment; Users guide; Conclusions and implications for policy and action.
Abstract: This report examines some of the linkages between women, environment and development by revisiting the projects that have been designed and implemented by women in their own communities to respond to community needs. The notions of partnership, validating women's knowledge and leadership capacity, and providing concrete examples and actual articulation of how the inter-linkages can be operationalized and supported are all useful lessons that can be gleaned from the success stories.
Court, Thijs de la. Different worlds: development cooperation beyond the nineties. Utrecht, NL: International Books, 1992. 144 p. : ill.
Notes: Subtitle varies: Environment and development beyond the nineties
Contents: (Selected): Development: off the tracks? (The sham success of the Western model); Blurring the borders (From colonial to neo-colonial, Human rights, The world village); Greater risks (Environmental capacity, Population explosion, Greenhouse effect, Tropical rain forests); Narrower margins (Are there advantantages in exporting?, Bankrupting of labour intensive industry); Agriculture and the environment (Hunger, Netherlands as an example, Alternative agriculture); Debts, the market and the environment (The Brady Plan, Debt swaps); Sustainable development (Development, a Trojan horse?, Sustainability:a common concern, Homo economicus: the materialistic identity, The real contradiction (Three central antitheses, Unequal competition, Losing the market place), Shifting frames of reference (World view in pioneer and climax situations, Women, Survival of the fittest), Conflict resolution.
Abstract: Summarizes the Dutch policy on environment and development as laid down in "A world of difference" by Jan Pronk (Dutch Secretary of State). Although context is Dutch, the book is about how the West (or the North) has approached and should approach the issues of environment, development and sustainability. Offers a synthesis of ecological and feminist critiques of the world community, giving a basis for the development of community action.
Cyprus. Earth summit: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1-12 June 1992 [UNCED] : national report of Cyprus. Nicosia: Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Republic of Cyprus, 1991. 37 p.
Notes: Report based on contributions and reference materials supplied by members of a Special Advisory Council of Ministers. Addendum, Women in sustainable development, also available at same location.
Dankelman, Irene and Joan Davidson. Women and environment in the third world: alliance for the future. London: Earthscan1988. 210 p.
Davies, Miranda. Third world : second sex 2 (two). London: Zed Books, 1987. 284 p.
Contents: Bound and gagged by the family code; No return to the veil; Organizing under Apartheid; Feminism and social struggle in Mexico; Women, vote for yourselves!; Women and politics: reflections from Nairobi; Guatemalan women have always participated; Women in Namibia: the fight goes on; ANC women speak; Kanak women: out of the kitchen into the struggle; Kurdish women: their lives and struggles; Women behind bars; The myth of equal opportunity in Nigeria; Literacy for women, why and how!; Education: a tool for liberation in Tigray; Travel and training for rural women in Papua New Guinea; Nicaraguan prostitutes: protagonists of their own transformation; Vietnam women's union: on the way to equality; Women, development and media; Group action for change in India; Organizing women through drama in rural Jamaica; Evolution of a slideshow; Organizing women workers in the Free Trade Zone, Sri Lanka; A question of tactics: interview with South African Trade Union Organizer, Lydia Kompe; Notes on a study of women workers in the Dominican Republic; A statement by domestic workers in Uruguay; Violence against women: an understanding of responsibility for their lives; Crimes against women in Iran; SOS - Mulher of Rio de Janeiro: an interview; Shelter for battered women in Thailand; Prostitution; a Philippine experience; Operation clean-up; Women's health is women's concern; Campaign against sex-determination tests in India; Tackling tradition: African women speak out against female circumcision; What the state neglects; Building politics from personal lives; International and regional networks; Women's organizations; Suggested further reading.
Abstract: This sequal to Davis's first book of the same title, reaffirms the gathering pace of women's protest and organization in the Third World. First-hand accounts raise crucial new issues and feature sixteen more countries - among them Algeria, Brazil, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Thailand. It highlights the value of international networking and solidarity by describing the aims and activities of organizations in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe specifically concerned with international or inter-regional research, action, exchange and support among women. An up-to-date list of addresses of relevant publications and support groups worldwide is also included.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era. "Challenging the given." Development (1995:1 ): 24-28. Oxford, GB: Blackwell, 1995. 5 p.
Devereux, Stephen and others. Credit and savings for development. (Rev.ed). Development guidelines no.1. Oxford, GB: Oxfam, 1990. 71 p.
Notes: Includes references
Contents: Part 1. An approach to rural credit and savings: The rural economy (Household economy, Needs for credit), Rural financial institutions (Informal savings and credit, Formal financial institutions); Part 2. Issues raised in the implementation of credit and savings programmes : The access to credit (Remoteness from the cash economy, Inconvenience of formal lending institutions, Disadvantage of illiteracy, Lender prejudices against women, Artificially low interest rates: a deterrent to lenders); Creditworthiness (Collateral secutiry, Income instability of rural borrowers, High ratio of recognition for new community organisations, Restrictions on loan use); Default (The climate, the weather and the seasons, Repayment schedules, "Soft' lenders, Small borrowers' undeserved reputation): Savings (Indigenous systems, Apparent inadequacy of resources, Discouraging effect of cheap credit); Programme design; Participation; Dependency. Appendix: Identifiying rural financial needs, Flowchart of decision rules, Checklists 1-4
Dimitrakopoulou, Hari. Northern Manitoba : women and sustainable economic development. Thompson, MB: The Northern Manitoba Economic Development Commission, 1993. 227 p.
Dossier, Panos. Triple jeopardy : women and aids. London, GB: Panos Institute, 1990. 104 p.
Notes: Includes references. Published to mark World AIDS Day 1990.
Abstract: "Triple jeopardy" describes the dangers women face as individuals, mothers and careers in the face of the AIDS pandemic.
Earthcare Africa. Gender-sensitive policies for sustainable livelihood security: guidelines for people-centred research and it's implementation. (s.l.): Earthcare Africa, 1993?. 15 p.
Eaton, Heather. " Ecofeminist spiritualities : seeking the wild or the sacred? " Alternatives 21 (April-May 1995): 29-31. s, 1995. 3 p.
Eisler, Riane. The chalice and the blade : our history, our future. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1988. 261 p.
Contents: (Selected): Human possibilities: two alternatives: evolutionary crossroads, or chaos or transformation; Journey into a lost world: beginnings of civilization; Messages from the past: the world of the goddess (Neolithic art, If it isn't partriarchy it must be matriarchy); Dark order out of chaos (Peripeheral invaders, Metallurgy and male supremacy, Shift in cultural evolution, Warfare, slavery and sacrifice); Reality stood on its head (Dominator and partnership mind, Metapmorphosis of myth, Sex and economics); Patterns of the past (Feminine as a force in history, Women as a force in history, Female ethos); Breakdown of evolution: a dominator future (Human issues and women's issues, Totalitarian solution, New realities and old myths); Breakthrough in evolution: toward a partnership future (New science and spirituality, New policitcs and economics, Transformation)
Abstract: "Validates a belief in humanity's capacity for benevolence and cooperation in the face of so much destruction"
Ekejiuba, Felicia. " Down to fundamentals : women-centred heartholds in rural West Africa." Development (1995:1): 72-76. Oxford, GB: Blackwell, 1995. 5 p.
Notes: Includes references
EURODAD and WIDE- Network Women in Development Europe. Male chauvinist SAPs : structural adjustment and gender policies. EURODAD-WIDE briefing paper no.December 1994 - January 1995. Brussels: WIDE, 1995. 8 p.
Finland. Department for International Development Cooperation. Looking at gender, agriculture and rural development. Helsinki: The Department, 1995. 35 p.
Contents: A framework for looking at rural development and gender; The evolution of including gender in agriculture and rural development - a case study from Nicaragua; A crash program for including gender in rural development - a case study from Nicaragua; Gathering data on women, agriculture, and rural development; A women's component, or no? - a case study from Kenya; The project cycle - including gender in agriculture and rural development; Including women: the six dangers.
Abstract: Given the responsibilities they have, and the constraints they face, women have been singled out in rural development projects for special attention. Women have been seen as untapped assets to be used and, it is argued, if women are included in development the experience will empower them by improving their confidence, independence and status.
Finland. Finnish International Development Agency. Looking at gender and forestry. Helsinki: FinnIDA, 1993. 35 p.
Contents: Introduction; The framework; When is gender an issue?; The project cycle and gender analysis; The woman question.
Abstract: The paper includes pieces of practical information drawn from a review of eight forestry projects and programmes. It is meant to help those personnel who are involved with the prepartation, implementation and monitoring of forestry projects and programmes.
Finland. Finnish International Development Agency. Looking at gender, water supply and sanitation. Helsinki: FinnIDA, 1994. 41 p.
Contents: An introductory framework; An enabling environment; The rural case; The urban case; The project cycle; The woman question; A women'scomponent, or no?
Abstract: The paper presents the results of a review of gender aspects in water supply and sanitation projects and programmes. It includes practical information drawn from seven reviewed projects and programmes.
Friedman, John. Empowerment : politics of alternative development. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992. 196 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Contents: (Selected): Rethinking the economy: the whole economy model; Rethinking poverty: the (Dis) empowerment model; Political claims 1: inclusive democracy and appropriate economic growth; Political claims 2: gender equality and sustainability; Practice: from social power to political power: Some questions for rich countries
Abstract: Provides theoretical foundation for an alternative approach to development which seeks to restore initiative to the disempowered sectors, communities and individuals at the household level
Galan, Beatriz B. "Land reform is a gender issue." Ceres 27(May-June 1995): 45-47. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995. 3 p.
Gilbert, Alan. "Third world cities: poverty, employment, gender roles and the environment during a time of restructuring". Urban Studies 31, no.4/5 (1994):605-633. 1994.
Abstract: The author considers the literature on four key elements of urban life: poverty, work, gender roles and the environment. He asks the question: how have those dimensions been affected by several fundamental shifts in the nature of world organization and development?
Godfrey, Joline. Our wildest dreams : women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good. New York: Harper Business, 1992. 246 p.
Grandea, Nona. From blackboards to keyboards : the fragile link between women's education and employment. Ottawa: North-South Institute, 1994. 56, 63 p.
Group of Green Economists. Ecological economics : a practical programme for global reform. London: Zed Books, 1992. 162 p.
Notes: Library has 2 copies
Contents: (Selected): Appendix 1: Women of the South: feminization of the crisis; Appendix 2: International agreement on raw materials; Appendix 3: Foreign trade in agricultural production in a wolrd
economic order based on solidarity; Appendix 4: The international illegal drug trade; and Appendix 5: Ban weapons exports and strengthen export monitoring.
Abstract: In this book the Group of Green Economists - who are associated with the German Greens - argue that there are practical alternatives to the vast inequalities and social and environmental
dislocation caused by two centuries of market-led industrialization and European colonial rule. Based on the principles of ecologicalbalance, democracy, social equality, feminism, non-violence, and respect for cultural identity and diversity, the authors propose basic principles for a global ecological economy and produce some suggestions for restructuring international trade, reorganizing the global financial system, controlling transnational corporations and building both an all-European economic order that transcends the EC as well as a global economy relevant to the needs of all humanity.- Publisher.
Harcourt, Wendy. Negotiating positions in the sustainable development debate: situating the feminist perspective. London, UK: Zed Books, 1994.
Notes: Taken from Wendy Harcourt (ed.), "Feminist perspectives on sustainable development: shifting knowledge boundaries".
Abstract: In welcoming potential collaboration with other groups in stategies for social change, feminists need to enter into partnerships prepared to challenge the gender bias of the men and women working in these fields and to be very clear about the different situated positions of those involved in shared knowledge production and discursive practices.
Harcourt, Wendy (ed). Feminist perspectives on sustainable development. London: Zed Books, 1994. 272 p.
Contents: Negotiating positions in the sustainable development debate: situating the feminist perspective (Harcourt); Feminist orientalism and development (Apffel-Marglin and Simon); Mining development in the Pacific: are we sustaining the unsustainable? (Emberson-Bain); The logic of economics vs. the dynamics of culture: daring to (re)invent the common future (Carmen); Beyond GNP (Henderson); The south wind: towards new cosmologies (D'Souza); Woman/body/knowledge: from production to regeneration (Swantz); Between terraforming and fortune-telling (Lykke and Bryld); Sustainable development through women's groups: a cultural approach to sustainable development (Wacker); Women and the politics of sustainable development (Hausler); Interbeing and the "I" habit: an experiment in environmental literacy (Martin); The politics of research on gender, environment and development (Douma et al); Feminism and political change: Women's peace movements (Conelly); Biodiversity and gender issues: recognizing common ground (Abramovitz); Women, poverty and population: issues for the concerned environmentalist (Sen); Finiteness, infinity and responsibility: the population-environment debate (Amalric); Consumption and fertility (Moss).
Abstract: Contributions on resource management, power, knowledge production, culture, development institutions and politics, health and economics, show how gender relations are not simply a footnote to our understanding of history and societies, but must be central to the development discourse. In so doing, they suggest that diversity itself is necessary to the creation of new paradigms of development that are built upon gender equity, secure livelihoods, ecological sustainability and political participation.
Heptulla, Najma (ed.) Environment protection in developing countries. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing, 1993. 343 p.
Contents: (Selected): Protecting the environment (National environment plan, Developing countries must refuse patenting of life-forms); Environment and the rural sector (Role of grasslands in the rural economy, Success for rural participatory environment programme: need for effective monitoring system, Science, technology and women for environmentally sound rural deveopment); Role of women in environmental protection; Urbanisation and environment (Air pollution in urban households, Ecological and economical model for assessment of city environment for the developing world - a model).
Herz, Barbara K. and Shahidur R. Khandker (eds). Women's work, education, and family welfare in Peru. World Bank discussion papers no.116. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1991. 280 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Hofrichter, Richard (ed). Toxic struggles : the theory and practice of environmental justice. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1993. 260 p.
Notes: Includes selected bibliography
Contents: Selected); Capitalism and the crisis of environmentalism (Faber, O'Connor); Anatomy of environmental racism (Bullard); Building a new vision: feminist, green socialism (Mellor); Creating a culture of destruction: gender, militarism and the environment (Seager); Feminism and ecology (King); Cultural activism and environmental justice (Hofrichter); Race, gender and the environment: a society based on conquest cannot be sustained: native peoples and the environmental crisis (LaDuke); Blue collar women and toxic waste protests: process of politicization (Krauss); Building on our past, planning for our future: communities of color and the quest for environmental justice (Miller); Unequal protection: the racial divide in environmental law (Lavelle, Coyle); Ecofeminism and grassroots environmentalism in the United States (Epstein); Hidden environment: crisis at work: Effects of occupational injury, illness and disease on the health status of Black Americans: a review (Wright, Bullard); Farm workers at risk; Global connection: exploitation of developing countries: Corporate plundering of Third World resources (Weissman); Trading away the environment: Free Trade agreements and environmental degradation (Ritchie); Economics and environmental justice: rethinking North South relations (Peng) Abstract:
Discusses how in local communities across the country people of colour, the poor, women, migrant farmworkers and industrial workers are joining forces with civil rights, peace and local community activists to challenge corporate polluters.
Hombergh, Heleen van den. Gender, environment and development: a guide to the literature. Utrecht: International Books, 1993. 175 p.
Hutcheson, Sarah. "Walking the line : facing the complexities of the woman-nature link". Alternatives 21 (April-May 1995): 16-20. 5 p.
Hynes, Patricia H. Taking population out of the equation: reforming I=PAT. North Amherst, MA: Institute on Women and Technology, 1993. 59 p.
Notes: Includes references
Contents: (Selected): Humanism and environmentalism; Military and environment; Agency in IPAT: Women and men and power; Feminists and population: a cautionary tale; Implications for public policy.
Abstract: Analyses the I=PAT equation that has framed population and environmental policy and proposes a new model which deletes population from the equation and replaces it with structural causes of environmental degradation, which then removes women as subjects or objects of population policy.
Institute for Women's Policy Research. Micro-enterprise and women : the viability of self-employment as a strategy for alleviating poverty. Washington, D.C.: IWPR, 1994. 76 p.
International Fund for Agricultural Development; IFAD. Banking on women. Rome: IFAD, 1992.
International Institute for Sustainable Development; IISD. Earth negotiations bulletin = Bulletin de négociations de la terre. Winnipeg: IISD, 1992. v. in binder
Provides coverage of major environment and development negotiations at the United Nations. Each commission/convention has own volume no. Also available on Internet with URL: http://www.iisd.ca.linkages/under title of Linkages: a multimedia resource for environment and development policy makers.
Contents: v.1 UNCED Prepcom (Earth summit bulletin). v.2 UNCED proceedings (Earth Summit bulletin). v.3 U.N. General Assembly (7th, 1992). v.4 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa. v.5 United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. v.6 International Conference on Population and Development. v.7 United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. v.8 United Nations Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. v.9 United Nations Framework Convention on Biological Diversity. v.10 World Conference for Social Development (Social Summit). v.11 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat two). v.12 Framework Convention on Climate Change. v.13 Special reports on international forest policy initiatives, including the Malaysian, Canadian and Helsinki proceesses. v.14. United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
Inuit Circumpolar Conference. Circumpolar sustainable development and the Projet de Société : an overview of the work of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and others on Arctic sustainable development. Anchorage, AK: 1993. 28 p.
Contents: (Selected): ICC Contributions to Arctic policy development (Arctic Environment Protection Strategy (AEPS), Arctic Indigenous Leaders; Summit, ICC activities related to UNCED and Agenda21); Examples of some local and regional initiatives related to Arctic sustainable development (The Inuit of Nunavik: promoting indigenous knowledge in sustainable development planning, The Inuit of Labrador, eastern Canadian Arctic: sustainable wildlife harvesting for commercial enterprise, Iqaluit, NWT: promoting women's participation in sustainable development, Inuit (Yupik) of Siberia: Conserving indigenous language for natural resource management, The Inuit of Greenland: planning for a sustainable future, Inuit Regional Conservation Strategy (IRCS) implementation efforts in Alaska); Towards a sustainable future in Canada's north.
ISIS International. Directory of third world women's publications. Quezon City, PH: ISIS, 1990. 197 p.
ISIS International. Women in development: a resource guide for organisation and action (Reprint ed.). London: IntermediateTechnology Publications, 1983. 225 p. : ill.
Notes: By ISIS Women's International Information and Communication Service. Includes bibliography
Contents: Women and multinationals (Karl); Women and rural development (Karl); Women and health (Cottingham); Education and communication (Verghese); Migration and tourism (Claire)
Jacobson, Jodi L. Gender Bias: roadblock to sustainable development. Worldwatch paper No.110. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 1992.
Karl, Marilee. Women and empowerment : participation and decision making . Women and world development series. London: Zed Books, 1995. 173 p.
Kelkar, Govind and Nathan Dev. Gender and tribe: women, land and forests. London(UK): Zed Book, 1991. 166 p.
Abstract: The study of Jharkhand, India's largest advasi (tribal) region. This book analyses changing gender roles and the rise of partiarchial tendencies in a society where external economic pressures are reducing advasis' access to the agricultural land and forests on which they depend for subsistence. The authors make comparisons with similar communities elsewhere in Asia and raise important questions about the direction of social change and environmental stability in trial societies subjected to the pressures of capitalist penetration.
Khasiani, Shanyisa A. (ed.) Groundwork : African women as environmental managers. Nairobi: ACTS Press, African Centre for Technology Studies, 1992. 131 p.
King, Elizabeth M., Hill, Ann M. (eds.) Women's education in developing countries : barriers, benefits, and policies. Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University, 1993. xiii, 337 p.
Notes: Includes references. Based on collection of reviews of the literature commissioned by the World Bank in preparation for an interagency conference at the World Bank in 1989, where each review focused on the literature pertaining to one developing region
Les femmes s'en mˆlent: r‚pertoire des femmes sp‚cialis‚es dans les questions internationales au Canada = Making a world of difference: a directory of women in Canada specializing in global issues. Ottawa: Women's Directory Project, Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 314 p.
Notes: French/English
Lewis, John P. Strengthening the poor: what have we learned? U.S.-Third World policy perspectives No.10. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988. 239 p.
Contents: (Selected): Assisted self reliance (Uphoff); Governments and grass roots organizations (Paul); Empowering Africa's rural poor (Lele); Some lessons from IFAD's approach to rural poverty alleviation (Alamgir); Turning point in Pakistan's rural development strategy (Azia); Agricultural growth, technological progress and rural poverty; What is not the same about the urban poor (Annis); Women, poverty and development in the Third World (Buvinic, Lycette); Poverty and adjustment in the 1990s (Jolly); Changing world of northern NGOs (Dichter); Aid for the poor (Guhan); Sub sector planning and poverty reduction: a donor view (Wheeler).
Li, Tania Murray. Gender issues in community-based resource management: theories, applications and Philippine case studies. Halifax: Dalhousie University Environment and Resource Management Project, 1993. 32 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Liaison Committee of Development NGOs to the European Committee and Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE). The European NGDO debate on population and development : report on WIDE-LC Seminar..., February 21-22, 1994. Brussels: WIDE, 1994. 68 p.Conference: WIDE-LC Seminar on Population and Development (1994 :Brussels)
Abstract: Seminar discussion and report in preparation for the ICPD
Manitoba Council for International Cooperation. Women and development - bibliography . Winnipeg: MCIC, 1993.
Marsden, Lorna. Timing and presence : getting women's issues on the trade agenda. Working paper GSD no.3. Toronto: International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, 1992. 19 p.
Notes: Includes references
Abstract: A series fo multilateral and bilateral trade agreements have changed the nature and substance of action in the social sector in a number of countries. In this paper, special attention is paid to the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States. This serves as a model for the examination of the process by which the social sector is dealt in, or out, of consideration. Conclusions are drawn from interview with leading Canadian negotiators of the FTA and from analysis of the literature.
Martin-Brown, Joan and Waafas Ofosu-Amaah (eds.). Proceedings of the Global Assembly of Women and the Environment "Partners in Life", Nov 4-8, 1991. Washington, DC: UNEP, 1992. 2 v.
Notes: V.2 contains descriptions of success stories.
Conference: Global Assembly of Women and the Environment (1991 : Miami)
Contents: Culmination of a series of four regional assemblies of women and environment between 1989 and 1991. Glossary of acronyms and UNCED Agenda 21 Chapter twenty-four in appendices
Martin-Brown, Joan. The greenbook : a manual to support organizing a National Assembly of Women and the Environment. Washington: UNEP, 1993. 216 p.
Conference: Global Assembly of Women and the Environment - "Partners in Life"
Contents: The rationale and mandates for a national assembly of women and the environment; Seminars and regional assemblies: laying the groundwork for a national assembly; The global assembly of women and the environment: the process for a national assembly; Convening a national assembly.
Abstract: The paper is meant to act as a guide in enabling countries to convene a National Assembly of Women and the Environment. The national assemblies are proposed in order to support: the implementation of chapter 24 of Agenda 21; preparations for the fourth UN World Conference on Women; and, partnerships among bilateral and multilateral NGOs and private sector groups.
Mazumdar, Vina. Embracing the earth : an agenda for partnership with peasant women. New Delhi: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 1994. 44 p.
McKee, Katharine. "Microlevel strategies for supporting livelihoods, employment, and income generation of poor women in the Third World : the challenge of significance". World Development 17 (7:1989) : 993-1006.
Mehra, Rekha. Engendering development in Asia and the Near East: a sourcebook. Washington, DC: International Center for Research on Women, 1992. 120 p.
Notes: Includes references
Moffat, Linda and others. Two halves make a whole: balancing gender relations in development. Ottawa: Canadian Council for International Co-operation, 1991. 108pp.
Abstract: The purpose of this handbook is to assist Canadian non-government organizations to increase the effectiveness and the equity of international development work. Consists of three major parts: I: Gender and Development; II: Gender and Development Training; III: Case Studies. Includes bibliographical references.
Moghadam, Valentine M. Gender and the development process in a changing global environment : results of the UNU/WIDER research programme on women and development. Helsinki: United Nations University/WIDER, 1993. 25 p.
Notes: Includes references
Moghadam, Valentine M. Gender, development, and policy : toward equity and empowerment. Helsinki: United Nations University/WIDER, 1990. 62 p.
Notes: Includes references
Contents: Introduction; Theoretical considerations; Gender and inequality; Integration or marginalization? On female proletarianization; Accounting for women's economic disadvantage: theoretical perspectives; The gender dimension of policy; Gender and social policy; Women workers: a comparative overview; Women and domestic work; Macroeconomic policy and women; Feminist strategies for development; Conclusion: research for action.
Abstract: The paper has three sections. It begins with a theoretical discussion of gender inequality, followed by a review of the debate on the impact of development processes on women and the significance of paid employment. In Part II, the specification of public policy's impact on women's work and women's lives - including a review of the adverse impact of structural adjustment programmes on women - illustrates the integral role of gender in policy, the gender-specific impact of social and macroeconomic processes and the need for gender-awareness on the part of development planners and policy-makers. The conclusion focuses on action-oriented research.
Moghadam, Valentine M. (ed). Privatization and democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union : the gender dimension. Helsinki: United Nations University/WIDER, 1992. 73 p.
Contents: Introduction; Gender and restructuring: a global perspective (Moghadam); Women and employment: Hungary (Weil); Czechoslovakia (Paukert); The Soviet Union (Lapidus); Eastern Europe (Fong and Paull); Women and politics: Central and Eastern Europe (Wochik); Concepts of women's rights (Einhorn).
Abstract: This monograph explores the implications of privatization and democratization in the former centrally planned economies with its main focus on gender related issues. The papers presented attempt to encapsulate the discussions and findings of a research conference that took place at WIDER in 1991. The questions pursued in these discussions covered a range of issues affecting the socio-economic status of women as a result of the ongoing process of reform and restructuring in the former socialist countries. The papers critically review the process of privatization and democratization in country specific situations and highlight the consequent plight of women and other vulnerable sections of the population.
Moser, Caroline O.N. Gender planning and development: theory, practice and training. New York: Routledge, 1993. 285 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Contents: Introduction; Gender roles, the family and the household; Practical and strategic gender needs and the role of the state; Third World policy approaches to women in development; Towards gender planning: a new planning tradition and planning methodology; The institutionalization of gender planning; Operational procedures for implementing gender policies, programmes and projects; Training strategies for gender planning: from sensitizing to skills and techniques; Towards an emancipation approach: the political agenda of women's organizations.
Abstract: The author explores the relationship between gender and development, and provides an introduction to Third World gender policy and planning practice. She describes the conceptual rationale for a new planning tradition based on gender roles and needs, and identifies methodological procedures, tools and techniques to integrate gender into planning processes. She also emphasizes the role training plays in creating gender awareness, and highlights the entry points for women's organizations to negotiate for women's needs at household, civil society, state and global levels.
Moser, Caroline. " Gender planning in the third world: meeting practical and strategic needs". World Development 17 (n11:1989). 27 p.
Motsisi, Thandiwe Dodo. Up and running with gender and development. Winnipeg: Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, 1994. 43 p.
Contents: Getting a foothold; Stepping out; Up and running.
Abstract: This handbook was prepared by the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation with the purpose of integrating a gender analytical framework in its programming. Section One outlines some of the principles and assumptions under the gender analytical framework. Section Two details some practical tools that are helpful in taking a step from theory to application. Section Three provides concrete examples on the application of GAD in two culturally different settings.
Muteshi, Jacinta Khasiala. "Collaborative alliances : the environment, women and the Africa 2000 (two thousand) Network". Environment and Urbanization 7 (April 1995): 205-218.
Abstract: This paper reviews the work of an internationaal environmental management project known as the Africa 2000 Network that emerged from the need to address the growing awarness of gender issues in environmentally sutainable development activities worlwide. The intention of this study was first to establish the degree of linkage between women's needs and interests and the work of Africa 2000 Network's national coordinators in Cameroon, Ghan and Kenya. The second was to relate the findings of Africa 2000 Network's (hereafter called the Network) reponses to women to the current research on gender, environment and development. The third was to clarify more specifically and substantively the types of actions that have empowered the resource management roles of African women while at the same time alleviating the effects of environmental degradation. It is hoped that this investigation will begin to contribute to the formulation of strtegies and structures that go beyond the mere cooptation of African women's labour into mainstream development activities. The aim is to work towards the transformation of current configurations of power relations within the ownership an control of resources; not only between men and women but also, ultimately, between nations.
Nene, Sibongile. Development policies and women. Johannesburg: Institute for African Alternatives, 1993. 1v. in various pagings
Ofosu-Amaah and others (ed). Partners in life. Washington, D.C.: UNEP; WorldWide Network, 1992. 296 p. : v.2
Conference: Global Assembly of Women and the Environment.November 4-8, 1991
Onimode, B., Suliman, M., Turok, Ben (eds.). Alternative strategies for Africa. London: Institute for African Alternatives, 1990. 3 v.
Notes: Proceedings of the Dar Es Salaam conference.
Contents: (Selected): v.1 Coalition for change: African alternatives to World Bank and IMF programmes, by Bade Onimode; Labour and structural adjustment programmes, by Hassan Dunmunu; Church and society in Africa, by Henry Okullu; African debt crisis: which way out, by E.N. Magaya; Alternatives for African women, by Mary Turok; Sustainable development strategies for Africa, by Mohamed Suliman; Self-reliancce and popular participation, by Omar Ali Juma. v.2 Environment, women : Participatory democracy in the agricultural sector as a strategy for controlling Africa's crisis, by M.k. Rumulika; Environment, water and agricultural performance: the African vicious circle, by E.M. Koffi-Tessio; Encroachment on forest habitats and agricultural productivity in Uganda, by Deborah Barabga; Crisis in the Tanzanian household economy: women's strategies in Dar Es Salaam, by B.C. Koda; African women and feminist schools of thought, by Fatima Babiker Mahmoud; Perspectives on women and the development of agricultural cooperatives in Nigeria, by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali; Viability of resistance committees for women in Uganda, by Abby J. Nalwenga-Sebina; Women in development: the case of Botswana, by Johannes N.S. Mutanyatta; Schooling prospects of Tanzanian female students in a situation of economic crisis, by Brigit Brock-Utne. v.3 Debt and democracy: Restructuring the world economy, by Horace Campbell; The export of capital, by A.A. Mahdi; Structural adjustment in Nigeria, by Julius O. Ihonvbere; Structural adjustment in Ghana, by Kweku G. Folson; Debt and crisis management, by Theresa Moyo; Agricultural policy, by Ifeyori I. Ihimodu; Privatization of public enterprises, by H.P.B. Moshi; The state and multinationals, by Ann Seidman; Investment regulation in Africa: unaddressed issuses, by S. Rugumanu; Beyond state-centred development, by Samuel E. Chambua; State, civil society and ethnicity, by Jeanette Hartmann; The IMF/World Bank programmes and social policy, by F.S.K. Tungaraza; Equity, popular participation, and rural development, by Dickson L. Eyoh; Democracy and "another development" in Lesotho, by D. Mabiritzi
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and York University Faculty of Environmental Studies. Awakening sleepy knowledge : transformative learning in action : final report of the Transformative Learning through Environmental Action Project. Toronto: OISE, 1994. 1 v. in various pagings
Notes: Study grew out of work at at 1992 Global NGO Forum at UNCED and the following Treaty on Environmental Education for Sustainable Societies and Global Responsibility. Annotated bibliography: p.1-40
Contents: Includes case studies in Berlin and Brandenburg (organic gardening and farming), Brazil (Women in citizens' action in the struggle against hunger and poverty and in defense of life), Ontario (Community based rural development project-immigrant and First Nations communities); Food for thought and sustenance.
Abstract: Transformative learning refers to process of learning in formal or non formal education settings, which is linked to changing the root causes of environmental destruction, and to changes in relations of power, gender relations and other patterns which allow for a healthy relationship with the earth.
Palmer, Ingrid. Gender and population in the adjustment of African economics :planning for change. Women, work and development No.19. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1991. 187 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Contents: Introduction; Gender considerations common to all sectors; Gender in agricultural market structures; Gender in non-agricultural market structures; Population variables in socio-economic change; The range of policies commonly applied; Weaknesses and opportunities of adjustment packages; Gender in the published commentary on structural adjustment; Implications of the theoretical framework for the ecocomic success of adjustment programmes; Implications of the theoretical framework for the population outcome of adjustment programmes; Gender equity and promoting economic efficiency; Influencing the demographic outcome; Conclusions.
Abstract: The study considers the roles of women and men, and economic efficiency. It aims to help national and international policy makers, in Africa and elsewhere, take gender issues systematically into account when planning structural economic change in the realization that the particular deprivations that women face constitute not only social, but also economic and demographic issues. The author contends that, without a gender frame in development and population policy analysis, resource misallocation will persist and could even impair the chances of achieving sustainable growth in the African region. She draws on examples from a number of African countries, and from both the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors.
Paolisso, Michael and Sally W. Yudelman. Women, poverty and environment in Latin America. Washington DC: International Center for Research on Women, 1991. 47pp.
Abstract: This report presents the findings of ICRW's review of women's environmental contributions in Latin America. Information collected from questionnaires, interviews, published materials and project descriptions have revealed a growing women and environment movment in Latin America.
Pietila, Hikka and Jeanne Vickers. Making women matter: the role of the United Nations. (Updated ed.) London: Zed Books, 1994. 198 p.
Notes: Foreword by Gertrude Mongella, Secretary-General of Fourth World Conference on Women [to be held in] Beijing, 1995
Contents: (Selected): Towards new millennia: forward from Nairobi (NGO Forum, 1985); Development from women's point of view; Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women [FLS]: equality, developoment, peace; United Nations Decade for Women 1976-1985; Importance of other world conferences; Institutional breakthrough in the United Nations system; UN System's concrete commitment to women; Emerging rights of women (In the United Nations Charter, Commission on the Status of Women, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - full text and discussion); Issues for the nineties: violence against women and the environment (Women and environment: Agenda 21; General Assembly speaks out; Promises and doubts: women's future with the United Nations. Annexes: Selected guidelines and checklists for women in development (INSTRAW); How to organize a national or local campaign; Relevant international instruments.
Abstract: Comprehensively sets out principles and promises made regarding the advancement of women and the integration of their interests into development, while encouraging them to ensure that governments keep their promises.
Plant, Judith (ed). Healing the wounds : the promise of eco-feminism. London: Green Print, 1989. 262 p.
Notes: Includes Recommending reading
Contents: (Selected): Remembering who we are: the meaning of ecofeminism: Split culture (Griffin), Women/wilderness (Leguin); Healing all our relations: ecofeminist politics: Poem: Tampons (Bass), Women act-women and environmental protection in India (Philipose), Speaking for the earth the Haida way (Gwaganad), Development, ecology and women (Shiva), From healing herbs to deadly drugs (Kheel); She is alive in you: ecofeminist spirituality: Poem: A story of beginnings (Starhawk), Toward an ecofeminist spirituality (Spretnak), Toward an ecological feminist theory of nature (Ruether), Sacred land, sacred sex (LaChapelle); The circle is gathering: ecofeminist community: Poem: Lost Arrows and the Feather People (LeGuin), Survival on earth: the meaning of feminism (Dinnerstein); Awakening to the ecological self (Macy), Community-meeting our deepest needs (Forsey), Consensus and community (Estes), The circle is gathering (Plant)
Polunin, Nicholas and Mohammad Nazim (eds). Foundation for Environmental Conservation. Population and global security (environmental challenges II). Geneva: Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 1994. 285 p.
Notes: Limited Geneva edition for United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Contents: Population expansion and global stability (Sadik); Global population and emergent pressures (Myers); Where is the time-bomb ticking? (Ramphal); Population, economics, development and environmental security (Tisdell); Imperatives for environmental sustainability: decrease overconsumption and stabilize population (Goodland et al); Health of people, health of planet (Schaefer and Kreisel); World population and nutritional well-being (Menza and Lupien); Global migration: a thousand years' perspective (Galtung); Women and the family planning imperative (Senanayake); The attitudes and involvement of religions in population planning (Trompf); Energy for a sustainable world population (Goldemberg); Hopes for the future (Holdgate).
Power, Jonathan. The report on rural women living in poverty. Rome: International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1992. 59 p. : ill.
Conference: Summit on the Economic Advancement of Rural Women (1992 :Geneva)
Quibria, M.G. Rural poverty in Asia : priority issues and policy options. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 433 p.
Notes: First vol. (devoted to issues papers) to come from the research project, Priority issues and policy measures to alleviate rural poverty, sponsored by the Asian Development Bank and the Norwegian Ministry of Development Cooperation. Includes references
Contents: (Selected): Rural poverty: conceptual, measurement and policy issues (Srinivasan); Macroeconomic policies and rural poverty: issues and research strategies (Behrman); Institutions and rural poverty in Asia (Evenson); Land tenure and rural poverty (Otsuka); Rural credit and rural poverty (Ammarsiamwalla); Women and rural poverty: some Asian cases (Bardhan); Environment and rural poverty (Hansen).
Raj-Hashim, Rita, Heyzer Noeleen (eds). Gender, economic growth and poverty. Kuala Lumpur: Asia and Pacific Development Centre, 1991.
Conference: The Regional Dialogue, Hanoi, Vietnam, 14-23 October, 1990
Ranoa, Milagros. Women and decision-making in agriculture: barriers to participation. RDI report series no.1993-2. Brandon: Brandon University Rural Development Institute, 1993. 40 p.
Notes: Includes references
Rodda, Annabel. Women and the environment. Women and world development series. London: Zed Books, 1994. 180 p.
Notes: Includes glossary of environmental terms, guide to education and action, bibliography and a list of relevant organizations
Contents: (Selected): Looking at the environment (Natural environment, Socio-cultural environment, Main environmental issues); Role of women (Women as users; Collectors of fuel, food and fodder, Women as water collectors and carriers, Women as consumers, Women as producers, Women as workers in the formal and informal sectors, Women as managers, Women and population); Effect of the environment and its degradation (Basic needs in rural and urban environments, Environmental disasters, Women's health, Socio-economic implications); Women as agents of change (Work of the Green Belt Movement); Case studies and project implementation (Women's use of forest resources in Sierra Leone, People, pumps and agencies: the South Coast Handpump Project); Guarari Community Development Project, Samitis of Bankura; Participatory development planning for sustainable development with women's groups in Kenya; Gender, class and use of forest resources, Strategies for planning and some research issues.
Abstract: Explains the world's major environmental issues as it impacts on women, focusing on their roles as users, producers and managers of the earth's resources.
Royal Tropical Institute. Women and development: an annotated bibliography : 1990-1992. Amsterdam: RTI, 1992. 206 p.
Sadik, Nafis. Investing in women: the focus of the '90s. New York: United Nations Population Fund, 1993. 34 p. : ill.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Sandbrook, Richard and Halfani Mohamed (eds). Empowering people: building community, civil associations, and legality in Africa. Toronto: University of Toronto Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1993. 209 p.
Conference: International Conference of Civil Associations (1991: Arusha, Tanzania)
Contents: (Selected): Bringing law to the people; Building community and civil associations (Women's asssociations, Self Help Rural Associations) ; Regenerating civil society; Revitalizing local government; Creating conditions for democratic development; Arusha Declaration on People's Empowerment
Abstract: Discussions by social activists from eight sub-Saharan countries on how to help empower popular organizations so that they can respond to their marginalized constituencies.
Seager, Joni. Earth follies : coming to feminist terms with the global environmental crisis. New York: Routledge, 1993. 332 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Contents: Up in arms against the environment: the military; Business as usual; On the coattails of men in government; The ecology establishment; The eco-fringe: deep ecology and ecofeminism; Hysterical housewives, treehuggers and other mad women
Abstract: Feminist analysis of the environmental crisis, critizing mainstream enivironmentalist and leading feminist viewpoints which fail to link environmental degradation to the gendered macro structure of social, economic and political power.
Seidman, Ann, Anang, Frederick. Twenty-first-century Africa: towards a new vision of self-sustainable development. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992. xi, 330 p.
Notes: Includes bibliographies
Contents: (Selected): Towards a new economic strategy for sustainable African development (Structural adjustment programs, Popular participation, Foreign aid, Institutional change and structural transformation, Debates over resource allocation and Africa's role in the world economy ); African regional cooperation and integration: achievements problems and prospects; Education and development: deconstructing a myth to construct reality (Cachet of capital, Conjunction of research and finance, Fads in education and development, Education and economic productivity, Educational equity, access and education of women); Health of the future (Alternative approaches: Food security, justice and sustainability, Women and structural adjustment, Hazards and people's control of space, Occupational health and workers control, Caring for refugees, Environmental management); Facing Africa's ecological crisis; Gender relations and development: political economy and culture (Gender and households, Gender issues in agriculture, Gender and technology transfer, Gender and structural adjustment,
Participatory research methodologies)
Abstract:Culmination of the first phase of work of the Task Force on Sustainable Development in Africa, and focuses on seven key areas: economy, legal order, environment, education, health, gender and regional integration.
Sen, Gita. " Alternative economics from a gender perspective". Development 1 (1995): 10-12. Oxford, GB: Blackwell, 1995. 3 p.
Sen, Gita and others (eds). Population policies reconsidered: health, empowerment, and rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. 280 p.
Notes: Includes references
Contents: Reconsidering population policies: ethics, development, and strategies for change; Population and ethics: expanding the moral space; Setting a new agenda: sexual and reproductive health and rights; Challenges from the Women's Health Movement: women's rights versus population control; Development, population, and the environment: a search for balance; Population, well-being and freedom; Honoring human rights in population policies: from declaration to action; Reproductive and sexual rights: a feminist perspective; The meaning of women's empowerment: new concepts from action; Women's burdens: easing the structural constraints; Women's status, empowerment, and reproductive outcomes; Gender relations and household dynamics; Reproductive and sexual health services: expanding access and enhancing quality; A reproductive health approach to the objectives and assessment of family planning programs; Reaching young people: ingredients of effective programs; Fertility control technology: a women-centered approach to research; Financing reproductive and sexual health services.
Abstract: This volume brings together a combination of scholars, senior policy-makers and women's health advocates who have experiences in population policy and family planning program implementation. They explore future directions for population policy centered on health, women's empowerment, and human rights. The underlying premise is that public policy should assure the rights and well-being of people already born and those who will inevitably be born, rather than simply attempt to limit the ultimate size of the world's population. The contributors discuss why such a shift in population policies is necessary, and propose how policies can be transformed to honor human rights, especially women's rights. The book delineates policy changes needed to ensure that women can act on their own behalf. It also analyzes the practical aspects of achieving the proposed reproductive health and rights agenda. The aim is to contribute to a new consensus on policy directions for the 21st century.
Shiva, Vandana. Staying alive: women, ecology, and development. New Jersey: Zed Books, 1989, 1992. 234 p.
Shiva, Vandana (ed). Close to home : women reconnect ecology, health and development. London: Earthscan, 1994. 170 p.
Notes: Published in association with Kali for Women, Delhi.
Silk, Vicky. Dragging women through suffering. (s.l.): Canadian Oceans Caucus, 1994. 6 p.
Abstract: The technology of dragging has ravaged the fishery of Newfoundland and caused grief most to the local women
Simpson, Brent M. "Gender and the social differentiation of local knowledge". Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, 2(3): 21-23. The Hague: Indigenous Knowledge & Development Monitor, 1994. 3 p.
Notes: Includes references
Slicer, Deborah. "Is there an ecofeminism - deep ecology "debate"." Environmental Ethics 17 (Summer 1995): 151-169. Denton, TX: Environmental Philosophy, Inc., 1995. 19 p.
Abstract: Discusses six problems with Warwick Fox's "The Deep Ecology-Ecofeminism debate and its Parallels" and concludes that until Fox and some other deep ecologists take the time to study feminism and ecofeminist analyses, only disputes-not genuine debate-will occur getween these two parties. An understanding of the six issues that I discuss is a precondition for such a debate
Snyder, Margaret. Women: the key to ending hunger. Hunger Project Papers no.8. New York: Hunger Project Global Office, 1990. 37 p.
Sontheimer, Sally (ed.). Women and the environment: a reader: crisis and development in the Third World. London: Earthscan, 1991. 205 p.
Contents: Women and land; Women and the forests; Women and water; Taking action for a better future
Abstract: Tells the story of women living and coping with ecologically stressed conditions. Shows women not as passive victims but as resourceful fighters and organizers in the face of "natural" disaster.
South Centre. Facing the challenge: responses to the Report of the South Commission. London: ZED Books, 1993. 319 p.
Contents: (Selected): People centred development through collective self reliance (Gaitang); Women: the missing element (Pietilia); Inventing the future (Pisani); World orders, old and new (Chomsky); Policies for sustained growth and poverty reduction (Conable); National and international policies for development (Dadzie); Challenge to the South: seven basic principles (Galbraith); National dimensions of developmenet strategies for the South (Islam); Multilateral compacts supporting economic reform (Sengupta); Achieving sustainable global development (Strong).
Sparr, Pamela. Mortgaging women's lives: feminist critiques of structural adjustment. London: Zed Books, 1993.
Success stories of women and the environment: a preliminary presentation in anticipation of the Global Assembly. New York: UNEP, WorldWIDE, 1991.
Conference: Global Assembly Women and the Environment (1991 : Miami)
Swantz, Marja-Liisa. "Women entrepreneurs in Tanzania : a path to sustainable livelihoods". Development (1995:1): 55-60. Oxford, GB: Blackwell, 1995. 6 p.
Tinker, Irene. " Women and community forestry in Nepal : expectations and realities". Society and Natural Resources 7: 367-381. London: Taylor & Francis, 1994.
United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. Women in decision-making : case study on Greece. New York: United Nations, 1991. 27 p.
Contents: Heads of state, parliaments, directors, governing boards/bodies, management committees, supervisors, cabinets
United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs. Women in decision-making : case-study on Costa Rica. New York: UN, 1991. 59p.
Contents: Heads of state, parliaments, directors, governing boards/bodies, management committees, supervisors, cabinets
UNICEF. The progress of nations : the nations of the world ranked according to their achievements in health, nutrition, education, family planning, and progress for women. New York: United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1993. v. ; annual
United Kingdom Department of the Environment. Partnerships in practice : [case studies and proceedings of the three-day international conference] Partnerships for Change, Manchester, UK, in September 1993. London: UK Department of the Environment, 1994. 192 p.
Contents: (Selected): Case studies: Sustainable Seattle, USA; Curitiba City, Brazil; Tague Initiative, Ecuador; CAMPFIRE, Zimbabwe; INBio-Merck Collaborative Biodiversity Research Agreement, Costa Rica; Greenfreeze, the world's first completely ozone-safe fridge, Germany; Metro Manila Women's Garbage Recycling Programme, the Philippines; Landcare Programme, Australia; Sustainable communities, UK; Sustainable citizenship, Scottish Environmental Forum. Workshops: Sustainable resource management; Environment and health; Sustainable urban communities; Sustainable rural communities; Sustainable development policies for business; Sustainable development and employment; Appropriate technology; National sustainability strategies and plans; Local sustainability strategies and plans; Participation in decision making. Workshops: Business partnerships for sustainable development; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainability indicators. Statements: A change in partnerships for Africa; United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development; Earth Council; From Rio to the workplace: summary of ICFTU meeting; Global Forum '94.
Abstract: Conference designed to bring people together around a programme which would not be dominated by the interests of one national government but would draw upon a great variety of views and experiences related to both successes and failures of post-UNCED activites.
The United Nations Association in Canada and Northern Institute for Conservation Research. Conference report. Vancouver: United Nations Association, 1991. 44 p. : ill.
Conference: Healing the Earth : women's strategies for the environment (1991 : Vancouver)
Contents:Conference objectives; Conference statement; Conference participants;
Abstract: The purpose of this conference was to engage and reflect on women's values and perceptions regarding nature and the environment. It was a forum to present environmental issues from a women's perspective, in preparation for UNCED. The document contains statements from many of the conference participants.
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; UNCED. [Assorted miscellaneous background materials published prior to the Earth Summit]. New York: UN, 1992. v. in box
Notes: Dates and publishers vary. Papers not found in this collection of assorted materials may be found in other UNCED file boxes in the AJH collection
Contents: Includes materials and newsletters from United Nations General Assembly, Prepcom, African Regional Preparatory Conference for UNCED (Economic Commission for Africa), Centre for Our Common Future (including Rio reviews), Earth Summit issues in brief, Earth Summit in focus, Earth Summit news, Eminent Persons' Meeting on Financing Global Environment and Development, Halifax Declaration, Tokyo Declaration, People's Earth Declaration and Taplow Court Declaration, Outcome of the Rio Conference (Strong), Notes for speakers, In our hands, Indigenous People's Perspectives on International Development and the Environment, Mountain agenda, An appeal for the mountains (Mountain Agenda)' Environmentally unsustainable consumption patterns: is there a way out (Speth), The final effort: progress report on preparatory negotiations (Harkavy), U.S. Citizens Network newsletters, Notes for speakers; Women and the environment (Australia), The Nigerian environment, vol.4, n.2 : towards the 1992 United Nations Conference .....(UNCED)
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; UNCED. [Assorted miscellaneous materials on Agenda 21]. New York: UN, 1993. v. in box
Notes: Publishing information varies. Includes articles, addresses, press summaries etc.
Contents: Includes Analysis of Chapter forty, Agenda 21 (Valantin); UNFPA and Agenda 21:population in the 21st century; Local authorities and sustainable development (Bosworth); Keynote address, Oceans Conference (Hanson); Donor consultation on Agenda 21: research and capacity building (Bellagio Study and Conference Center); Ecoforum Agenda 21 summary and working document for ELCI members; Earth Summit press summary of Agenda 21; Agenda 21 : an easy reference to the specific recommendations on women (United Nations Development Fund for Women - UNIFEM); Transnational Corporations and sustainable development : a review of Agenda 21 (ECOSOC)
United Nations Decade for Women. The Nairobi forward-looking strategies for the advancement of women. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 1985. 89 p.
Notes: Excerpt from the Report of the World Conference, July 15-26, 1985 which met to review and assess the achievements of the UN Decade For Women 1976-1985, and to develop strategies for the advancement of women to the year 2000.
Conference: World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace (Nairobi : 1985)
United Nations Decade For Women, Canada. Status of Women Canada. Fact sheets - 1992 update, Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women : issues and the Canadian situation. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 1992. 153 p.
Notes: Fact sheets present Canada's progress in implementing the Forward Looking Strategies, and identify opportunities for individual and group action to ensure full expression of equality between women and men in Canada.
United Nations Decade for Women, Manitoba Committee for U.N. Decade for Women, Canada. Secretary of State. Women and justice/injustice : conference report, 1992 conference... March 20-21, 1992, Winnipeg. Winnipeg: The Committee, 1992.
Notes: "Eight years 'til 2000"
Contents: (Selected): Women in development and the economic status of women North and South (O'Neil); Strategies for change (Rebick); Conflict resolution (Haid); Healing: the Aboriginal women's way to justice; Violence against women - the greatest injustice; Strategies to the year 2000 (Smith).
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Participatory action programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (PAPLAC). 13 p.
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). UNIFEM's mainstream experience. New York: UNIFEM, 1987. 29 p.
Notes: including case studies of participation in Round Tables and Country Programme
United Nations Development Programme. Gender, poverty and sustainable development. New York: UNDP, 1995.
United Nations Environment Programme and World Bank. Final report.... Washington, DC: UNEP, 1993. 307 p.
Conference: International Consultation to Advance Women in Ecosystem Management (1993 : Washington, DC)
Contents: Introduction; Prospectus, programme and working group documents; Plenary/keynote speeches; Plenary presentations on ecosystems; Assessing present intra-Agency cooperation on women and ecosystem management, and identifying opportunities for integrating women in ecosystem management: organizational profiles; List of participants; Appendices.
United Nations World Hearings on Development (1994 : New York). [Miscellaneous documents from the hearings]. New York: United Nations, 1994. v. in box
Contents: Materials on five themes: Theme 1: Development, peace, security; Theme 2: Challenges and imperatives of growth; Theme 3: Globalization: impact and required action; Theme 4: A new partnership for development; Theme 5: Coordination and institutional support. Includes An agenda for development : report of the Secretary-General (Boutros Boutros-Ghali); List of expert witnesses and their testimony; Global dilemma : economic growth, sustainable development and the debt burden (Jagan); Commonwealth Secretariat submission; Analysis and recommendations on gender issues....and bibliography (United Nations Development Fund for Women - UNIFEM); Globalization : impact and required action : President's summary; President's closing remarks
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. [Miscellaneous pre-conference materials]. New York: UN, 1994. v. in box
Notes: Theme: "Action for development, quality and peace". Authors and dates of publication vary
Conference: World Conference on Women (4th : 1995 : Beijing)
Contents: (Selected): Draft Platform for Action; NGO Forum on Women '95 bulletins; Wealth of nations, poverty of women (ECE regional preparatory meeting, Vienna October 1994); WIDE perspective paper for the World Summit on Social Development and the fourth World Conference on Women; The long road to Beijing : a brief history of U.N. initiatives leading to the Fourth World Conference on Women (Allen and others); Regional platform for action : women in a changing world - call for action from an ECE perspective (Economic Commission for Europe); Adoption of the report : Vienna NGO Forum 94 Call to Action; Onward to Beijing : for equality, development peace (newsletter of the Canadian Beijing Facilitating Committee); Canada's national report to the United Nations for the...conference
United Nations. Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis. World economic and social survey 1995: current trends and policies in the world economy. New York: UN, 1995. 345 p.
Contents: United Nations perspective on the world economy; The current situation in the world's economies; The international economy; Limitations of macro-policy in industrialized countries;
Customizing economic policies in the developing countries; The new policy focus on enterprises in transition economies; The changing orientation of international cooperation for development; Major trends in population emerging in the 1990s; The socio-economic status of women; Technology, OPEC and the supply of crude oil; International trade in "new" manufactured products; The new-era secondary market for developing and transition economy debt; Assessing the peace dividend resulting from the end of the cold war; Some causes and consequences of changing methods of production; Current issues in social security policy
Abstract: This edition of the survey shows two economic and social realities existing side by side. At a time when the global economy is comparatively healthy, many regions are enjoying increasing prosperity and show and ability to sustain their growth. Simultaneously, for many of the world's citizens, this is an era of hardship.
United Nations; UN. [Miscellaneous conference and post-conference materials] New York: UN, 1994. v. in box
Conference: International Conference on Population and Development (1994 : Cairo)
Contents: Includes ICPD materials: Government of Canada statement by Sergio Marchi; kit of Canadian materials including CIDA documents. Key note address to the International Conference....(Gro Harlem Brundtland); Programme of action of the ICPD (unedited). Report of the International Conference on Population and Development (United Nations). World Programme of Action : a new paradigm for population policy (Sen). Women, politics, and global management : the Cairo Conference (Chen, Fitzgerald, Bates). IN/Fire ethics : newsletter of the International Network of Feminsts Interested in Reproductive Health [special issue on ICPD]. Consumption : the other side of population for development (Ramphal); National perspectives on population and development : synthesis of 168 national reports prepared for the ....(United Nations Population Fund); Summary of the programme of action of the International Conference....(United Nations); V.1. Population and development : programme of action adopted at the International Conference...(United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information Policy Analysis)
United Nations; UN. [Miscellaneous pre conference materials]. New York: UN, 1993. v. in box
Conference: International Conference on Population and Development (1994 : Cairo)
Contents: Includes ICPD 94 newsletters and other newsletters (Population 94 etc.); United Nations General Assembly material; United Nations Association in Canada memorandum; Successes and failures in population policies and programs : report of the conference held in Oslo in preparation for ICPD (organized by Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development and Centre for International Women's Issues); Population debate: breakthroughs and blind spots of a new paradigm (Somerville, in Catholic New Times); ICPD media guide
United Nations. [Miscellaneous conference materials]. v. in box
Conference: World Conference on Women (4th. : 1995 : Beijing)
Contents: Includes Women's Health and the Fourth World Conference on Women (Canada. Women's Health Bureau) and more.
United Nations; UN. [Miscellaneous pre-conference materials from Preparatory Committe meetings and other sources]. New York: UN, 1994. 3 v. in boxes
Notes: Includes official papers (national reports, policy papers etc.) for the First Prepcom (31 Jan-11 Feb 194, New York) and the Second Prepcom (22 Aug-2nd Sept 1994, New York.
Conference: World Summit for Social Development (1995 : Copenhagen)
Contents: Includes: Towards human security (UNDP policy papers); Urban security and sustainable development in the 21st century (ICSC): report of the Expert Group Meeting on Urban Security; Social integration: approaches and issues (UNRISD); Expert Meeting on the Expansion of Productive Employment, Saltsjobaden, Sweden, 1993; National reports from Croatia, India, Zimbabwe, Spain, Australia, India, Philippines, Liechenstein, Nigeria, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, Uganda; Papers from FAO, DAWN, CIDSE, UNRISD, ICSW, UNESCO, UNHCR, ILO, WIDE, World Bank, ODC, UNICEF, European Union, WWF, WEDO, NGOs; Quality benchmark for the Social Summit : an NGO statement for the third session of the Preparatory Committee....; The Crisis of Social Development in the 1990s : preparing for the World Social Summit - report of UNRISD's 30th anniverary conference Geneva 7-8 July 1993 (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development - UNRISD); From Coopenhagen to Beijing : WIDE's contribution to the World Summit for Social Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women (WIDE); Citizenship and human development in Africa, towards the WSSD and World Conference on Women (ENDA, African NGO Forum, Tunis 1994)
University of British Columbia. Final report. Vancouver: Sustainable Development Research institute, 1994. 29 p.
Conference: Women and Sustainable Development : Canadian perspectives (1994 : Vancouver, B.C.)
University of British Columbia. Women & [and] sustainable development : Canadian perspectives : [Miscellaneous materials from the conference] 27-31 May 1994, Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver: Sustainable Development Research Institute, 1994. v. in box
Contents: Draft policy statements.
University of Sussex. Gender and third world development. Brighton, Sussex: The Institute of Development Studies, 1991. 7 v.
Notes: Includes references. Date of publication uncertain
Contents: Module 1 Socio-economic statistics, by Alison Evans. Mod. 2 Gender and employment: an Indian case study, by Hilary Standing. Mod. 3 Gender and health, by Lise Ostergaard. Mod. 4 Towards gender-aware housing policy and practice, by Caroliine O.N. Moser. Mod. 5 Towards gender-aware provision of urban transport, by Caren Levy. Mod. 6 Household resource management, by Kate Young. Mod. 7. Gender-aware planning in agricultural production, by Ann Whitehead
van Herpen, D, Ashby, J.A. (ed). Gender analysis in agricultural research. Cali, Columbia: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, 1992. 104 p.
Vickers, Jeanne. Women and the world economic crisis. Women and world development. London: Zed Books, 1991.
Weston, Ann. The NAFTA papers: implications for Canada, Mexico and developing countries. Ottawa: The North-South Institute, 1994. 123 p.
Notes: Includes bibliography
Contents: Introduction; Justice and jobs; a Canadian perspective on free trade; The social impact of trade liberalization: Canadian perspectives on the NAFTA; NAFTA and East Asian developing countries; From FTA to NAFTA: whither Canadian trade policy toward the south?; The NAFTA: charting a new course toward reciprocity; Sanctions and standards; comments on the NAFTA side agreements; The NAFTA side agreements - labour and women's issues.
Abstract: The papers examine some of the issues of free trade and NAFTA including the social impact of free trade, the possibilities of trade diversion if East Asian exporters find Mexico supplanting them in American and Canadian markets, and the major step taken by Mexico in accepting virtually full reciprocity with its NAFTA partners in taking on the same obligations and rules.
Wigg, David. In a class of their own: a look at the campaign against female illiteracy. World Bank development essays no.4. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994. 44 p.
Wiltshire, Rosina. If half our leaders were women. Ecodecision (September 1993): 39-42.
Winnipeg. Urban Safety for Women and Children Fact Finding Group, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. A safer Winnipeg for women and children. Winnipeg: Social Planning Council, 1991. 155 p. : appendices
Notes: Includes resource list
Woestman, Lois. World Bank structural adjustment and gender policies : strangers passing in the night - fleeting acquaintances or best friends? Brussels: European Network on Debt and Develpment, 1994. 34 p.
Notes: Includes references
Women's Environment & Development Organization and Women's International Policy Action Committee. Official report ... 8-12 Nov 1991, Miami, Florida, USA including Women's Action Agenda 21 and findings of the Tribunal. New York: WEDO, 1992. 38 p.
Conference: World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet (1991 : Miami)
Abstract: Congress designed to promote women's active and equal participation in preparations for the June 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Brazil
Women's Feature Service. The power to change : women in the third world redefine their environment. Zed Books, 1993. 236 p.
Notes: Originally published in India 1992
Abstract: Compiled from articles submitted to the Women's Feature Service by women journalists in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Articles illustrate the necessity to locate women at the centre of the development debate
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The Canadian women's budget. Ottawa: WILPF, 1993. 67 p.
Women's Link. Women's link : the national capital directory of women's groups and equity opportunities. Ottawa: Women's Link, 1995. v. ; bi-annual
Notes: Library has 1994 directory
Contents: Women's groups (local); Francophone groups; National groups; Government links; Mixed clubs and organizations; Singles; Other directories; Men's groups; Spiritual and church; Professional links
Woods, Zonny. Youth sourcebook on sustainable development. Winnipeg: International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1994. 167 p.
Notes: By IISD and other organizations
Contents: (Selected): Section 1: Issues from a youth perspective: Sustainable development, Human rights (Environment and disability, Environmental justice, Indigenous peoples, Women's rights are human rights, Apartheid and its environmental legacy), Women (World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet, Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, Effects of structural adjustment policies on women), Natural resources (Deforestation, Genetic resources, Forests and indigenous peoples, Biodiversity, biotechnology and indigenous peoples, Political transformation, Debt and environment); Section 2: Youth working and organizing for action (Youth and UNCED, Organizing strategies, Case studies (Mixe Community, Francophone youth, AIESEC, Youth Camps in South Africa, Traineeship exchange Program), ElectronicCommunications (Networking through E-Mail, Internet), Resource materials; Section
3: Directory of organizations
Abstract: Sourcebook a result of experiences of young people who organized and worked together during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992
World Bank. Women in development: a progress report on the World Bank initiative. World Bank, 1990. 32 p.
World Bank. [Background papers for the symposium November 10-11, 1994]. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994. 1 v. (looseleaf)
Notes: Includes references
Conference: Gender Symposium (1994 : Washington, D.C.)
Contents: Who takes the credit : gender, power, and control over loan use in rural credit programmes in Bangladesh (Goetz and Gupta). Targeting poor woman-headed households and woman-maintained families in developing countries - Tables only (Buvinic and Gupta). Social security, the tax treatment of couples, and the position of women (Cigno). World Bank Symposium on Gender and Social Development, panel presentation by Martha MacDonald.Widows in rural India: major findings (Chen). All words and no deeds : rural women's property rights in reform China (Bossen). Systemic issues affecting women's property rights in Africa (Fisiy).
WorldWIDE Network and CIBA-GEIGY Corporation. WorldWIDE directory of women in the environment. (6th ed.) Washington, DC.: WorldWIDE Network, 1994. 240 p.
Notes: Includes indexes in appendices
Wright, Susan, Nelson, Nici (eds). Power and participatory development : theory and practice. London: ITP, 1995. 208 p.
Contents: Participation and power (Nelson and Wright); Paticipation and power: a transformative feminist research perspective (Schrijvers); Pardigm shifts and the practice of participatory research and development (Chambers); Participatory research and participant observation: two incompatible approaches (Wright and Nelson); Theatre for development: listening to the community (Mavrocordatos and Matin); A multi-method approach to the study of homelessness (Akilu); Who speaks for whom? Outsiders re-present women pioneers of the forests of Mexico (Townsend); Participatory research on non-European immigration to Italy (Maher); Power to the people: rethinking community development (Curtis); Shifting power, sharing power: issues from user-group forestry in Nepal (Gronow); Empowerment and community care for older people (Meethan); Local institutions and power: the history and practice of community management of tank irrigation systems in south India (Mosse); Institutionalizing adaptive planning and local level concerns: looking to the future (Pretty and Scoones); Participatory ideology and practical development; agency control in a fisheries project, Kariba Lake (Hussein); Non-governmental organizations and participatory development: the concept in theory versus the concept in practice (Lane); Popular participation in aid-assisted projects: why more in theory than practice? (Eyben and Ladbury).
Abstract: The book provides an exploration of the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and attempts to look at the shifts in power within communities and institutions which are needed for participatory ideas to be effective.
Zimmerman, Michael (ed). Environmental philosophy : from animal rights to radical ecology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1993. 437 p.
Contents: (Selected): Environmental ethics: Individualistic approaches (Animal liberation (Singer), Animal rights, human wrongs (Regan), Ethics of respect for nature (Taylor)); Holistic approaches (The land ethic (Leopold); Deep ecology (The deep ecology-ecofeminism debate and its parallels (Fox)); Ecofeminism (The death of nature (Merchant), Nature, self and gender: feminism, environmental philosophy and the critique of rationalism (Plumwood), Working with nature: reciprocity or control (Salleh), The power and the promise of ecological feminism (Warren)); Social ecology (What is social ecology (Bookchin), Marx's inorganic body (Clark), The marriage of radical ecologies (Kovel)).
Abstract: Anthology of essays on environmental ethics and radical ecophilosophy.
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