Engendering the Environment?
Gender in the World Bank's Environmental Policies
Published on 10. November 2000
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7546-1130-1 (ISBN)
Description
This work offers critical gender analyses of environmental impact assessment theory and practice through an analysis of EIA scholarship and the World Bank. The first part (Chapters 1-4) provides the theoretical grounding of the book. Part Two offers a case study of the World Bank, offering a critical gender analysis of the Bank's social policies (Chapter 5), EIA policies (Chapter 6), and the SSP (Chapters 7 and 8).
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 223 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1130-1 (9780754611301)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: theorizing gender - a framework of analysis; a gender evaluation of EIA theories; women, development and environment - implications for EIA. Part 2 A case study of the World Bank: the rhetoric of gender, gendered rhetoric - EIA in the context of the World Bank's social policies; the World Bank's EIA policy; the Sardar Sarovar Project - history and politics; EIA in practice; revisiting gender and EIA.