Introducing 'the gender box': a framework for analysing gender roles in forest management

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This document is designed to aid foresters and other natural resource managers desiring to more effectively integrate gender in (primarily tropical) forest management. It identifies 11 issues that have been highlighted in the literature on gender. Sample issues, though potentially relevant at all scales - macro, meso, and micro - are examined, each at a particular scale, as shown in the ‘Gender Box'. The purpose is to highlight both the importance of and the interactions among scales, as we consider the lives of individual women and men in forests. Frequent reference is made to the literature, both as a guide for users and as a mechanism to show clearly what gender researchers have found relevant pertaining to the sample issues. Brief suggestions for ways forward are provided in closing.
Authors: Colfer, C. J. P.; Minarchek, R.D.
Subjects: women, gender relations, agriculture, tenure rights, gender, tenure, forest management
Publication type: ISI, Journal Article, Publication
Year: 2013
ISSN: 1465-5489

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