Livelihood and gender : equity in community resource management / editor, Sumi Krishna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krishna, Sumi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources--India--Management.

Natural resources.

Women in community development.

Women in economic development.

Land use--Social aspects.

Land use.

India.

Management.

Land use--Social aspects--India.

Women in economic development--India.

Women in community development--India.

Equality--India.

Equality.

Physical Description:

452 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2004.

Contents:

1 A 'Genderscape' of Community Rights in Natural Resource Management / Sumi Krishna 17

Part I Livelihoods in Transition: Field Interventions

2 Overcoming Gender Barriers: Local Knowledge Systems and Animal Health Healing in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra / Sagari R. Ramdas, Nitya S. Ghotge, Ashalatha, Nandini Mathur, M.L. Sanyasi Rao, N. Madhusudhan, S. Seethalakshmi, N. Pandu Dora, N. Kantham, E. Venkatesh, J. Savithri 67

3 Mainstreaming Gender Concerns in Mangrove Conservation and Management: The Pichavaram Coast, Tamil Nadu / P. Thamizoli, the MSSRF Team 92

4 Organising Women through Wasteland Development: Bankura District, West Bengal / Narayan K. Banerjee 109

5 Empowering Women in Watershed Management: Guraiya Panchayat, Madhya Pradesh / Smita Gate Chandra 125

6 Engendering Community Rights: Women's Access to Water and Wasteland in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka / Chhaya Datar, Aseem Prakash 137

Part II Gender Needs and Resource Management

7 Gender and Ecological Sustainability: The Traditions and Wisdom of the Local Communities in a Dry Zone, Sri Lanka / Anoja Wickramasinghe 171

8 Managing Ecosystems for Women's Health: The Case of Kumaon, Uttaranchal / Ratna M. Sudarshan 193

9 Exploring the Impact of Chromite Mining on Women Mineworkers and the Women of Sukinda Valley, Orissa: A Narrative / Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy 214

10 Gender and Disasters: Coping with Drought and Floods in Orissa / Prafulla K. Mishra, Shaheen Nilofer, Sumananjali Mohanty 226

11 Enhancing Women's Mobility: Transport and Gender Relations in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand / Nitya Rao 248

12 People's Land Reform Initiatives: A Note on the Bundelkhand-Baghelkhand Area, Madhya Pradesh / Kanta Marathe 275

Part III Institutions, Customs and the State

13 Gender, Class, Caste and Participation: Community Forestry in Central Nepal / Anupama Lama, Marlene Buchy 285

14 Women and Community Forests in Orissa: Rights and Management / Neera M. Singh 306

15 Community Institutions and Gender: Fishworkers in Kasargode, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram Districts, Kerala / Arundhuti Roy Choudhury 325

16 Gender Aspects of Family Property and Land Rights: Regulation and Reform in Kerala / Praveena Kodoth 351

17 Gender, Tribe and Political Participation: Control of Natural Resources in North-eastern India / Sumi Krishna 375

Part IV Reflections on Agency and Empowerment

18 From Subjects of Change to Agents of Change: A Travelogue in Himachal Pradesh / Subhash Mendhapurkar 397

19 Limits of Empowerment: Mallahin Fishponds in Madhubani, Bihar / Smita Tewari Jassal 412

Knowledge Systems, Equity and Rights: A Dialogue with Vina Mazumdar / Sumi Krishna 425.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761997792

8178292629

OCLC:

52121383