Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis

A study commissioned by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, reporting on how women fit into the debates on the relationship between development and environmental protection in the third world. The issues addressed include the simultaneous rise of the global environmental crisis and the women's movement, power discourse, feminist critiques of science, women and nature, alternative development, and radical responses to the crisis. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Rosi Braidotti is Professor of Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, and the author of Patterns of Dissonance (Polity Press, 1991). Saskia Wieringa is a lecturer on women and development at the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, and is author of Women's Struggles and Strategies (Gower, 1988). Ewa Charkiewicz and Sabine Hausler are researchers at the Institute of Social Studies.