gender equity and water in South Asia
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zwarteveen, Margreet > (ed.)
- Creator
- Ahmed, Sara > (ed.)
- Creator
- Gautam, Suman Rimal > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- V IND 8 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- water, armoede, politiek, mensenrechten, landbouw, agrarisch bestaan, technologie, bundel
- Description
- South Asia’s significant water resources are unevenly distributed, with about a fifth of the population lacking adequate access. Across the region water determines livelihoods and in sometimes survival.Water access depends on power relations and politics. The contributors show how gender intersects with other axes of social difference such as class, caste, ethnicity, age, and religion, to shape water use and management practices. They demonstrate that gender issues are the key to understanding and improving water distribution and management practices in the region.