Three lessons for gender equity in biodiversity conservation

Amid a growing global agenda, biodiversity conservation has embraced gender equity as a pillar of equitable and effective practice. Gender equity has become enshrined in the global environment and development agenda through global commitments, policy and funding. However, for various reasons, conservation biodiversity often takes a simplistic view of gender as synonymous with women or as a dualism between women and men. This narrow view risks promoting inequitable processes and ineffective outcomes. Deeper engagement with feminist theory, and feminist political ecology in particular, could help advance biodiversity conservation's approach to how gender is understood, framed and integrated. Engaging with lessons from feminist political ecology can help advance gender equity in conservation through attention to power dynamics, intersectionality, and subjectivity.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2020-02-27

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/cobi.13487PMID 32104932PMCID 7754110
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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