Water Security Across the Gender Divide -

Water Security Across the Gender Divide

Buch | Hardcover
XVII, 233 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-64044-0 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

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 only on natural water availability, but also on the respective socio-political context. It is regulated by gender-differentiated roles and responsibilities towards the resource, which are strongly influenced by, among others, tradition, religion, customary law, geographical availability, as well as the historical and socio-political context.

While gender has been recognized as a key intervening variable in achieving equitable water access, most studies fail to acknowledge the deep interrelations between social structures and patterns of water use. Proof of these shortcomings is the enduring lack of data on water accessibility, availability and utilization that sufficiently acknowledges the relational nature of gender and other categories of power and difference, like class and socioeconomic status, as well as their comprehensive analysis. This book addresses this major research gap.

Christiane Fröhlich is a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Hamburg, Germany. With a background in environmental conflict research, she has worked extensively on water conflicts on the international, national and local levels, as well as on environmental drivers of human mobility, both with a regional focus on the Southern Mediterranean.

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).

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Water Security in a New World
Zusatzinfo XVII, 233 p. 18 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 543 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte disaggregated enquiry • Earth and Environmental Science • Environmental management, • Gender Studies • Gender Studies, Gender Groups • gender-water nexus • Securitization • social & ethical issues • Social & ethical issues • Social Structure, Social Inequality • society & social sciences • Society & Social Sciences • Sociology • water accesibility • Water conflict • Water Policy • Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
ISBN-10 3-319-64044-5 / 3319640445
ISBN-13 978-3-319-64044-0 / 9783319640440
Zustand Neuware
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