Buch
Sammelband
Opposing currents : the politics of water and gender in Latin America
Herausgegeben von:
Bennett, Vivienne
Pittsburgh, Pa.:
Univ. of Pittsburgh Press
,
2005
,
250 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Bennett, Vivienne |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Pitt Latin American series
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| Jahr: | 2005 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0822958546 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This volume focuses on women in Latin America as stakeholders in water resources management. It makes their contributions to grassroots efforts more visible, explains why doing so is essential for effective public policy and planning in the water sector, and provides guidelines for future planning and project implementation. After an in-depth review of gender and water management policies and issues in relation to domestic usage, irrigation, and sustainable development, the book provides a series of case studies prepared by an interdisciplinary group of scholars and activists. Covering countries throughout the hemisphere, and moving freely from impoverished neighborhoods to the conference rooms of international agencies, the book explores the various ways in which women are-and are not-involved in local water initiatives across Latin America. Insightful analyses reveal what these case studies imply for the success or failure of various regional efforts to improve water accessibility and usability, and suggest new ways of thinking about gender and the environment in the context of specific policies and practices. Contents: The connection between gender and water management / Margreet Zwarteveen and Vivienne Bennett -- Latin American challenges to global water and gender policies / Sonia Dávila-Poblete and María Nieves Rico -- Gender dimensions of neoliberal water policy in Mexico and Bolivia: empowering or disempowering / Rhodante Ahlers -- Women in the "water war" in the Cochabamba valleys / Rocío Bustamente, Elizabeth Peredo, and María Esther Udaeta -- To make waves: water and privatization in Tucumán, Argentina / Norma Giarraca and Norma del Pozo -- Irrigation management, community participation, and equity in an Andean community / Juana Rosa Vera Delgado -- Water as a source of equity and empowerment in Costa Rica / Lorena Aguilar -- Women, equity, and household water management in the valley of Mexico / Michael C. Ennis-McMillan -- Women and water in the northern Ecuadorean Andes / Elena P. Bastidas -- Women at the helm of irrigated agriculture in Mexico: the other side of male migration / Stephanie Buechler -- Toward a broader perspective / Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete, and Maria Nieves Rico | |
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