Livelihood and Gender

This book has critiqued natural resource management from a gendered perspective. Almost all of the contributors are concerned with people's changing livelihoods and resource base. They examine the overlapping strands that cut across the issue of engendering community rights in natural resource management. The volume tries to grasp the complexity of the interlinkages between gender and natural resources.

This book has critiqued natural resource management from a gendered perspective. Almost all of the contributors are concerned with people′s changing livelihoods and resource base. They examine the overlapping strands that cut across the issue of engendering community rights in natural resource management. The volume tries to grasp the complexity of the interlinkages between gender and natural resources.

Overview - Sumi Krishna
A ′Genderscape′ of Community Rights in Natural Resource Management
PART ONE: LIVELIHOODS IN TRANSITION: FIELD INTERVENTIONS
Overcoming Gender Barriers - Sagari R. Ramdas et al
Local Knowledge Systems and Animal Health Healing in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
Mainstreaming Gender Concerns in Mangrove Conservation and Management - P Thamizoli and the MSSRF Team
The Pichavaram Coast, Tamil Nadu
Organising Women through Wasteland Development - Narayan K Banerjee
Bankura District, West Bengal
Empowering Women in Watershed Management - Smita Gate Chandra
Guraiya Panchayat, Madhya Pradesh
Engendering Community Rights - Chhaya Datar and Aseem Prakash
Women′s Access to Water and Wasteland in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
PART TWO: GENDER NEEDS AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Gender and Ecological Sustainability - Anoja Wickramasinghe
The Traditions and Wisdom of the Local Communities in a Dry Zone, Sri Lanka
Managing Ecosystems for Women′s Health - Ratna M Sudarshan
The Case of Kumaon, Uttaranchal
Exploring the Impact of Chromite Mining on Women Mineworkers and the Women of Sukinda Valley, Orissa: A Narrative - Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy
Gender and Disasters - Prafulla K Mishra, Shaheen Nilofer and Sumananjali Mohanty
Coping with Drought and Floods in Orissa
Enhancing Women′s Mobility - Nitya Rao
Transport and Gender Relations in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand
People′s Land Reform Initiatives - Kanta Marathe
A Note on the Bundelkhand-Baghelkhand Area, Madhya Pradesh
PART THREE: INSTITUTIONS, CUSTOMS AND THE STATE
Gender, Class, Caste and Participation - Anupama Lama and Marlène Buchy
Community Forestry in Central Nepal
Women and Community Forests in Orissa - Neera M Singh
Rights and Management
Community Institutions and Gender - Arundhuti Roy Choudhury
Fishworkers in Kasargode, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram Districts, Kerala
Gender Aspects of Family Property and Land Rights - Praveena Kodoth
Regulation and Reform in Kerala
Gender, Tribe and Political Participation - Sumi Krishna
Control of Natural Resources in North-Eastern India
PART FOUR: REFLECTIONS ON AGENCY AND EMPOWERMENT
From Subjects of Change to Agents of Change - Subhash Mendhapurkar
A Travelogue in Himachal Pradesh
Limits of Empowerment? Mallahin Fishponds in Madhubani, Bihar - Smita Tewari Jassal
Afterword - Sumi Krishna
Knowledge Systems, Equity and Rights: A Dialogue with Vina Mazumdar