Women's perceptions of environmental change in Egypt / Eman El Ramly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El Ramly, Eman (Eman Hassan)

Series:

Cairo papers in social science

Cairo papers in social science ; volume 23, number 4.

Cairo papers in social science ; volume 23, number 4

بحوث القاهرة في العلوم الاجتماعية ؛ مجلد 23، عدد 4

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Environmental conditions.

Human ecology.

Environmental degradation.

Egypt.

Environmental degradation--Egypt.

Human ecology--Egypt.

Egypt--Environmental conditions.

Women--Egypt--Attitudes.

Women--Egypt--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

v, 85 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Ṭabʻah 1.

طبعة 1.

Other Title:

Ruʾyat al-marʾah lil-taghayyurāt al-bīʾīyah fī Miṣr

رؤية المرأة للتغيرات البيئية في مصر

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, [2002]

القاهرة، مصر : قسم النشر بالجامعة الامريكية بالقاهرة، 2002c.

Language Note:

Summary in Arabic.

Summary:

This research focuses on exploring and explaining women's perceptions of and social responses to environmental change. Viewing risk selection and perception as 'dynamic processes' that are continuously changing and being reinterpreted through people's 'worldviews, ' it examines how pollution and decline of environmental conditions come to be regarded by Egyptian women as 'risky.' The research was conducted in three structurally different urban settings with different levels of exposure to pollution and different socio-economic levels of their residents. Data were generated by means of in-depth interviews with forty-four women from different walks of life. The research is gender specific, given the primary role of women as health care managers of their families. Thus, for women, environmental issues and health issues are closely related.

Notes:

Series volume dated: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).

ISBN:

9774246306

OCLC:

51741382