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• About Friends of the Earth
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Contributors
• Jenny Hawley: Introduction
• 1: Diane Elson: University of Essex: Women’s Empowerment and Environmental Sustainability in the C
• Introduction
• International UN Agreements on the Environment and Women’s Empowerment
• Meanings of Empowerment and Sustainability
• Green Economy: Gender Equitable and Environmentally Sustainable?
• Conclusions
• 2: Wanjira Maathai: Green Belt Movement, Kenya: Women as Drivers of Forest Restoration to Combat Cli
• What Does Restoration Mean for Africa?
• How Do We Achieve the Restoration Target in the Declaration?
• From International Commitment to Real Action
• 3: Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex: Why Do Gend
• Gender Inequality and Patterns of Unsustainability
• Whose Anthropocene and Who Sets the Boundaries?
• Green Economies: Business as Usual?
• Pathways to Gender Equality and Sustainability
• 4: Caroline Lucas: UK Green Party MP: Is there a Specific Role for Women in Helping to Achieve Envir
• Women and Leadership
• Collaboration
• Deeds Not Words
• Feeling as a Catalyst
• 5: Susan Buckingham: Feminist Geographer, Brunel University: The Institutionalisation and Masculinis
• Institutions of Education
• Environmental Research
• Institutional Working Practices and Decision-Making
• Key Intervention
• 6: Yvonne Orengo: Andrew Lees Trust: Media Empowering Women in Southern Madagascar
• Cattle are More Important than Women
• Life in the Androy
• Talking About Inequality
• Barriers to Speaking Out
• Village Voices: Opening Up Debate
• Women Find their Voice
• Empowering Women in Managing Natural Resources and Sexual Health
• Last Word
• 7: Julie A. Nelson: Economist, University of Massachusetts Boston: Empowering a Balanced and Useful
• A More Subtle Relation Between Gender and Sustainability
• The State of Mainstream Economics
• Feminist Critiques of (Social) Science
• The Myth of the Machine
• A Necessary Intervention: Reinventing Economics
• One More Note on Gender
• Last Words
• 8: Anna Fitzpatrick: Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London: The Role of Fash
• Why Fashion?
• 9: Celia Alldridge: Activist with the World March of Women: How the Defence of the Commons and Terri
• Women on the March for Autonomy Over Our Bodies and Self-Determination of Our Territories … Until
• Women Reflecting on and Strengthening their Relationship with Nature and the Environment
• The People’s Summit 2012: Feminist Resistance Against the Green Economy and False Market Solutions
• World March of Women 4th International Action: A Year of Feminist Struggle for Bodily Autonomy and T
• WMW Key Documents
• 10: Vandana Shiva: Philosopher, Activist and Co-Author of Ecofeminism: Hand in Hand: Women’s Empow
• 11: Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing: International Food Policy
• Gender and Sustainability
• The WEAI and Sustainability
• Conclusions
• 12: Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf: Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights: The Impacts of
• 13: Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg: University of Antwerp: How Gender-Sensitive are National A
• Introduction
• Gender and Climate Change: Different Discourses and Approaches
• Discussion of Findings and Way Forward
• 14: Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell: NGO Leaders: Women, Conflict and the Environment
• Trees for People and the Environment
• Conflict and the Environment
• Challenges of Environmental Governance
• Women and the Environment
• Gender in Society and Politics
• 15: Esther Mwangi: Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): Gender, Participation and Com
• Benefits Capture in Gendered NTFP Value Chains in Africa
• Women’s Participation in Emerging Sub-National REDD+ Project Initiatives
• Gendered Participation in Forest Governance: Insights from the IFRI Global Dataset
• Lessons from Beneath the Canopy: A Synthesis of CIFOR’s Comparative Studies
• 16: Barbara Stocking: Former CEO of Oxfam GB: Putting Gender Equality at the Heart of Oxfam’s Work
• Gender Equality in Parity Organisations
• Delivering for Poor Women
• Leading Across the World
• 17: Nidhi Tandon: Networked Intelligence for Development, Canada: From Individual to Communal Rights
• When Government Policy Continues to Be Problematic
• Entry Points for Policy Intervention and Regulation
• Empowering Women to Reclaim and Advance Community Assets and Rights
• From Patriarchal Traditions to Gender-Sensitive Common Regimes
• 18: Maria Mies: Sociologist, Activist and Co-Author of Ecofeminism: Mother Earth
• Images of the Earth Mother
• 19: Sarah Fisher: Population and Sustainability Network: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights:
• Revisiting the Population and Sustainability Debate
• Women and Girls Want and Need Their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• Empowering Women and Girls as Agents of Change
• What Has This Got to Do with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• Towards a Collaborative Strategy for Linking Environmental Sustainability and Reproductive Rights
• 20: Kate Metcalf and Colleagues: UK Women’s Environmental Network: The Power of Grassroots Action
• Past Projects and Successes
• Current Grassroots Work: The Local Food Project
• Developing Skills
• Women’s Role in the Alternative Food Economy: Successes and Constraints
• Conclusion
• 21: Marylyn Haines Evans: National Federation of Women’s Institutes: One Hundred Years of Collecti
• 22: Juliet Davenport: CEO of Good Energy: The Impact of Gender Balance in the Renewable Energy Secto
• 23: Emma Howard Boyd: 30% Club for Women in Business Leadership: More Women in Business for a Sustai
• ‘We Cannot Return to the Old Macho Ways’
• So What Has Been the Catalyst Behind this Breakthrough? How Have We Improved Outcomes and Moved Away
• Growing the Female Talent Pipeline Needs to Be High on the Agenda for Every Board and Executive Comm
• Investors are in a Unique Position to Encourage Companies to Improve their Gender Diversity – But
• So What Is It that Investors, in Particular, Can Focus On?
• More Women in Business Makes for Better Business Overall
• Gender-Diverse Boards Can Help Companies and Stakeholders Alike
• 24: Fiona Reynolds: Former Director General of the National Trust: Sustainability Is About People
• 25: Cathy Newman: Journalist and TV Presenter for Channel 4 News, UK: Sexism and Gender Equality in
• 26: Sarah Richardson: Historian, University of Warwick: Mistresses of their Own Destiny: A History o
• Women Campaign Against the Slave Trade
• Female Philanthropy and Politics
• Lifestyle Politics
• Notes
• Back Cover