What's Gender Got To Do With It? Global Gender & Environment Outlook - Consumption & Waste Story Map
Publisher: GRID-Arendal
Author(s): Joni Seager, Yehuda Shalem, Elaine Baker, Kristina Thygesen, Tina Schoolmeester, and Debhasish Bhakta
Date: 2019
Topics: Gender, Livelihoods, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Argentina, India, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates
This story map on consumption and waste explores just some of the findings of GGEO, published by UN Environment in 2016, occupies a unique space in the landscape of global assessments: it offers a lens that reveals the gendered nature of human relationships to environment and development. In a world shaped by gender difference in all realms – work, recreation, family, power and privilege – ‘the environment’ is also deeply gendered.