Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals: Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education

ISBN-13: 9781032004563 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Astrid Skjerven; Maureen Fordham

Opis

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education and infrastructure. 

Spis treści

1 Introduction PART I Empowerment 2 Engendering sustainability transitions by design: How to critically unpack gender in Transition Management 3 Gender within sustainable decisions: A 3-D sustainability perspective 4 Gender mainstreaming in occupational health and safety: Challenges in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals 5 Gender inequity related to climate risks: Cultural vulnerabilities as obstacles to sustainability in rural communities of Mexico PART II Education 6 Sustainable gender equality: Opening the black-box of quality assessment in higher arts education 7 Sensitizing Nepalese students for gender mainstreaming in sustainable planning and design 8 Communication design to foster gender equality: Research and experimentation in the educational field 9 Responsible tech-futures: Female artists as semantically sustainable tech developers PART III Infrastructure 10 Changing traditions: The case of Amazonian riverine women and Belo Monte hydropower dam 11 Reimagining the gender roles within Japan to achieve sustainable gender equality 12 Gender and sustainability in Ovacık and Hozat cooperative activities, Tunceli Province, Turkey