Taking stands : gender and the sustainability of rural communities / / Maureen G. Reed

• Autore: Reed Maureen Gail <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.75/082/09711
• Soggetto topico: Women in rural development - British Columbia; Women in forestry - British Columbia; Sustainable forestry - British Columbia; Forestry and community - British Columbia; Forests and forestry - Social aspects - British Columbia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: seeing the trees among women in forestry communities -- Transition and social marginalization of forestry communities -- Policy and structural change in rural British Columbia -- Women and woods work: the gender of forestry jobs -- women's lives, husbands' wives: "managing" forestry communities -- Communities confront outsiders -- Fitting in: making a place for gender in environmental and land use planning -- Social sustainability and the renewal of research agendas.
• Sommario/riassunto: Environmental activism in rural places frequently pits residents whose livelihood depends on resource extraction against those who seek to protect natural spaces and species. While many studies have focused on women who seek to protect the natural environment, few have explored the perspectives of women who seek to maintain resource use. This book goes beyond the dichotomies of "pro" and "anti" environmentalism to tell the stories of these women. Maureen Reed uses participatory action research to explain the experiences of women who seek to protect forestry as an industry, a livelihood, a community, and a culture. She links their experiences to policy making by considering the effects of environmental policy changes on the social dynamics of workplaces, households, and communities in forestry towns of British Columbia's temperate rainforest. The result is a critical commentary about the social dimensions of sustainability in rural communities. A powerful and challenging book, Taking Stands provides a crucial understanding of community change in resource-dependent regions, and helps us to better tackle the complexities of gender and activism as they relate to rural sustainability. Social and environmental geographers, feminist scholars, and those engaged in rural studies, environmental sustainability, community planning, and policy making will find it invaluable.
• Titolo autorizzato: Taking stands
• ISBN: 1-283-33058-X; 9786613330581; 0-7748-5056-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821235503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II