Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Krishna, Sumi.

Description

452 p. : map; 23 cm.

Subject

• Natural resources > India > Management
• Land use > Social aspects > India
• Women in economic development > India
• Women in community development > India
• Equality > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'Genderscape' of community rights in natural resource management / Sumi Krishna -- Overcoming gender barriers : local knowledge systems and animal health healing in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra / Sagari R. Ramdas [and others] -- Mainstreaming gender concerns in Mangrove Conservation and Management : the Pichavaram Coast, Tamil Nadu / P. Thamizoli and the MSSRF Team -- Organising women through wasteland development : Bankura District, West Bengal / Narayan K. Banerjee -- Empowering women in watershed management : Guraiya Panchayat, Madhya Pradesh / Smita Gate Chandra -- Engendering community rights : women's access to water and wasteland in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka / Chhaya Datar and Aseem Prakash -- Gender and ecological sustainability : the traditions and wisdom of the local communities in a dry zone, Sri Lanka / Managing ecosystems for women's health : the case of Kumaon, Uttaranchal / Ratna M. Sudarshan Exploring the impact of chromite mining on women mineworkers and the women of Sukinda Valley, Orissa : a narrative / Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy -- Gender and disasters : coping with drought and floods in Orissa / Prafulla K. Mishra, Shaheen Nilofer and Sumananjali Mohanty -- Enhancing women's mobility : transport and gender relations in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand / Nitya Rao -- People's land reform initiatives : a note on the Bundelkhand-Baghelkhand area, Madhya Pradesh / Kanta Marathe -- Gender, class, caste and participation : community forestry in Central Nepal / Anupama Lama and Marlene Buchy -- Women and community forests in Orissa : rights and management / Neera M. Singh -- Community institutions and gender : fishworkers in Kasargode, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram Districts, Kerala / Arundhuti Roy Choudhury -- Gender aspects of family property and land rights : regulation and reform in Kerala / Praveena Kodoth -- Gender, tribe and political participation : control of natural resources in North-eastern India / Sumi Krishna -- From subjects of change to agents of change : a travelogue in Himachal Pradesh / Subhash Mendhapurkar -- Limits of empowerment : Mallahin fishponds in Madhubani, Bihar / Smita Tewari Jassal -- Knowledge systems, equity and rights : a dialogue with Vina Mazumdar / Sumi Krishna.

ISBN

0761997792 (Cloth)

LCCN

^^2003008976

OCLC

52121383

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Harvard Library