Gender and Natural Resource Management

Bernadette P. Resurrección is Senior Research Fellow of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and adjunct Associate Professor of Gender and Development Studies at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Rebecca Elmhirst is Principal Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK.

Introduction 1. Gender, Environment and Natural Resource Management: New Dimensions, New Debates Part I: Contextualizing Gender and Natural Resource Governance in Neo-liberal Times 2. Gender, Doi Moi and Coastal Resource Management in the Red River Delta,Vietnam 3. Intensification Regimes in Village-Based Silk Production, Northeast Thailand: Boosts (and Challenges) to Women's Authority 4. Multi-Local Livelihoods, Natural Resource Management and Gender in Upland Indonesia 5. Women's Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely Trends Part II: Gender Interventions: Targeting Women in Sustainable Development Projects 6. Autonomy Reconstituted: Social and Gender Implications of Resettlement on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia 7. Do Women-Only Approaches to Natural Resource Management Help Women? The Case of Community Forestry in Nepal 8. Gender, Legitimacy and Patronage-driven Participation: Fisheries Management in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia 9. Gender, Microcredit and Conservation at Caohai: An Attempt to Link Women, Conservation and Development Part III: Responding to Intervention: Gender, Knowledge and Authority 10. Insider/Outsider Politics: Implementing Gendered Participation in Water Resource Management 11. Gathered Indigenous Vegetables in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Gender Asset 12. Religion, Gender and the Environment in Asia: Moving Beyond the Essentialisms of Spiritual Ecofeminism