Gender and natural resource management : livelihoods, mobility and interventions / edited by Bernadette P. Resurreccion and Rebecca Elmhirst.

In association with the International Institute for Environment and Development.

A collection of papers evolved from a panel on gender, environment, and natural resource management at the EU-Asia Link Project's International Conference on Gender, Globalization, and Public Policy at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand in May 2004, with some chapters substantially revised versions of papers presented there and others contributed subsequent to the conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Gender, Environment and Natural Resource Management: New Dimensions, New Debates -- Theorizing gender and environment: Conceptual antecedents and new theoretical pathways -- Gender, environment and natural resource management in neo-liberal times -- Gender interventions:The feminization of natural resource management -- Gendered subjects: Knowledge and authority in natural resource management -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Contextualizing Gender and Natural Resource Governance in Neo-liberal Times -- Chapter 2 Gender, Doi Moi and Coastal Resource Management in the Red River Delta, Vietnam -- Introduction -- The study area -- History of mangrove management in Giao Lac village -- Impact of economic reform:New institutions for shrimp and clam management and marine product collection -- Differentiation in the harvesting of intertidal coastal products -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Intensification Regimes in Village-Based Silk Production, Northeast Thailand: Boosts (and Challenges) to Women's Authority -- Introduction -- Methods -- Theory -- Evolution of the Thai silk industry -- Traditional local species silk production -- Government-promoted Thai hybrid species production -- Industry-promoted silk production using imported species -- Overall comparisons and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Multi-Local Livelihoods, Natural Resource Management and Gender in Upland Indonesia -- Introduction -- Gender performed in migrant livelihoods -- Resource governance, livelihood trajectories and gender in Lampung -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Women's Land Rights in Rural China: Current Situation and Likely Trends -- Introduction -- Land arrangements in China -- Land rights and women's participation in agriculture -- Data -- Land reallocation in rural China -- Women's land rights at the village level -- Explaining inter-village differences in women's land rights -- Summary and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Gender Interventions:Targeting Women in Sustainable Development Projects -- Chapter 6 Autonomy Reconstituted: Social and Gender Implications of Resettlement on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia -- Introduction -- Method -- State-led dam resettlement, Orang Asli land and resources rights -- Changing framework of land property and access: The effect on women's access and rights to land -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Do Women-Only Approaches to Natural Resource Management Help Women? The Case of Community Forestry in Nepal -- Introduction -- The social and research context: Community and forestry in Rapti -- Women-only forest user groups -- Looking at women-only FUGs through the equity lens -- The share of benefits -- What is the value of women-only spaces? -- Why isn't community forestry a gendertransformative policy? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Gender, Legitimacy and Patronage-driven Participation: Fisheries Management in the Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia -- Introduction -- Gender-embedded institutions -- History of patronage, resource co.

Using empirical material from a number of Asian countries, this book explores gender-environment relations within shifting configurations of resource access and control. The author argues that current doctrines of decentralization and community participation are inadequate without consideration of the gender dimension.

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