Arora Jonsson, Seema and Agarwal, Shruti and Colfer, Carol J Pierce and Keene, Stephanie and Kurian, Priya and Larson, Anne M.
(2019).
SDG 5: Gender equality – a precondition for sustainable forestry.
I/In:
Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People. Sid./p. 146-177.
Cambridge University Press
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Abstract
Key Points
• Forestry cannot be thought of in isolation from its relations with other sectors and other parts of people’s lives – for both the health of the forests and the well-being of forest peoples.
• Forest governance and everyday management are upheld by a superstructure of gendered forest relations – invisible to mainstream forestry – that often disadvantages women as a social group.
• Well-intentioned gender programmes can backfire, causing adverse effects on forests and forest peoples, if the efforts are not cognisant of context and power relations.
• Constant awareness of differences among various social groups – men, women, different classes, ethnicities – and how their interests intersect differently in various forest contexts is needed for everyone’s energy, creativity and motivation to contribute to sustainable forest management. • Research suggests that greater democratic governance of forests leads to better environmental outcomes.
• The gender-neutral framing of some SDG goals undermines efforts towards achieving the outcomes called for in SDG 5.
Authors/Creators: | Arora Jonsson, Seema and Agarwal, Shruti and Colfer, Carol J Pierce and Keene, Stephanie and Kurian, Priya and Larson, Anne M. |
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Title: | SDG 5: Gender equality – a precondition for sustainable forestry |
Year of publishing : | 2019 |
Page range: | 146-177 |
Number of Pages: | 32 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
ISBN for electronic version: | 9781108765015 |
Language: | English |
Additional Information: | An online version of this work is published at doi.org/10.1017/9781108765015 under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC 4.0 which permits re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium for non- commercial purposes providing appropriate credit to the original work is given and any changes made are indicated. |
Publication Type: | Book Chapter |
Refereed: | Yes |
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed |
Version: | Published version |
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 509 Other Social Sciences > Gender Studies (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Forest Science |
Keywords: | forest governance, gender equality, sustainability, forest management, forestry |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-103294 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-103294 |
ID Code: | 16554 |
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap |
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development |
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector |
Deposited On: | 14 Jan 2020 08:23 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2021 23:14 |
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