Water Security Across the Gender Divide

This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities: it depends not...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Water Security in a New World,
Subjects:
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Environmental management.
ISBN:9783319640464
ISSN:2367-4008
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Bridging Troubled Waters:Water Security Across the Gender Divide (Henri Myrttinen)
  • Chapter 2. Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Opportunities(Farhana Sultana)
  • Chapter 3. More than Women and Men: A Framework for Gender and Intersectionality Research on Environmental Crisis and Conflict(Amber J. Fletcher)
  • Chapter 4. Gender and Water in the Middle East.Local and Global Realities(Mauro van Aken)
  • Chapter 5. Land and Water Reforms in South Africa: "Men in White Coats"(Deepa Joshi)
  • Chapter 6. Integrating Gender Equality in WASH Emergency Response in the Central African Republic(Beatrice Mosello)
  • Chapter 7. Engaging with Gender in Water Governance and Practice in Kenya(ChinweIfejikaSperanza)
  • Chapter 8. When Water Security ProgrammesSeek to EmpowerWomen - A Case Study from Western Nepal(FlorianeClement)
  • Chapter 9. Just "Women" is Not Enough: Towards a Gender-relational Approach to Water and Peacebuilding(Janpeter Schilling)
  • Chapter 10. Calming the Waters, Ploughingthe Sea - Can Gender-Responsive Approaches to Intra-state Water Conflicts Lead to Peacebuilding? Evidence from Lebanon and Nepal(Henri Myrttinen)
  • Chapter 11. The Role of Women in Transboundary Water Dispute Resolution(Lynette L. de Silva). .

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