This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests. Using a variety of methods and approaches, they build on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives to bring depth and breadth to the relevant issues and address timely and under-studied themes.

Focusing particularly on tropical forests, the book presents both local case studies and global comparative studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the US and Europe. The studies range...

There is currently much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource management, including forestry. This Reader provides a collection of key articles published on gender and forests published over the last 30 years. Including an editorial introduction and overview, it provides an accessible collection of excellent forestry-relevant social science within an overarching analytical framework and demonstrates the leading debates in the field.

The book should be of great value to both biophysical science and social science students and to professionals in training. It focuses...

There is currently much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource management, including forestry. This Reader provides a collection of key articles published on gender and forests published over the last 30 years. Including an editorial introduction and overview, it provides an accessible collection of excellent forestry-relevant social science within an overarching analytical framework and demonstrates the leading debates in the field.

The book should be of great value to both biophysical science and social science students and to professionals in training. It focuses...