Livelihood and Gender: Equity in Community Resource Management

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Sumi Krishna
SAGE Publications, Feb 20, 2004 - Business & Economics - 452 pages
This book has critiqued natural resource management from a gendered perspective. Almost all of the contributors are concerned with people's changing livelihoods and resource base. They examine the overlapping strands that cut across the issue of engendering community rights in natural resource management. The volume tries to grasp the complexity of the interlinkages between gender and natural resources.

About the author (2004)

Sumi Krishna is a distinguished independent scholar and former President of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies. She has over 40 years of experience in environment, development and gender, encompassing biodiversity, natural resource management, people’s movements and livelihood issues; has advised universities and institutions on integrating science and social science curricula and methodologies. She is a widely published author and is based in Bengaluru.

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