This book introduces the reader to the core issues informing the gender and environment nexus today. Taking a feminist and place-based analysis, prize-winning author Wendy Harcourt explores the gendered dimension of key issues such as gendered territories, resources, food and energy crises, climate justice, technologies, embodiment, consumerism, ecofeminism, biopolitics and alternatives to mainstream development. Setting the scene for future books to be published in the Zed Book series Gender and Environment, Harcourt proposes an entirely new way of thinking of feminist political ecology. Taking up both men and women's contribution to ecology, it looks at the 'big' picture as well as what can be learned from the myriad of community and networked resistances to that are putting into practice alternatives to the dominant economic model.

Author Biography

Wendy Harcourt received the 2010 Feminist and Women's Studies Association's Annual Book Prize for her book on Body Politics in Development (Zed Books, 2009). Wendy Harcourt is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies University of Erasmus and chief editor of the quarterly journal Development. She has led a series of global research projects funded by Rockefeller Foundation, UNFPA, UNDP, UNESCO, UNIFEM DFID, Hivos and the Macarthur Foundation examining facets of gender, population and development, including young women and reproductive health and rights. She is actively engaged in global feminist politics through her work with Women in Development Europe (WIDE), European Feminist Forum, the Feminist Dialogues and her work with Trans-dignity. She writes a blog on Women Empowering Women for Inter Press Service, and has written extensively on sustainability, sexual and reproductive rights, globalization and development from a gender perspective.