Geography 326 Geog 326 Gender, Environment and Development in the Developing World Instructor B. Hyma Calendar Description Examines gender-sensitive sustainable resource management in the developing world. Applies conceptual and action approaches from macro through micro-level planning and program development.
Women still lag behind men in critical areas.
This course discusses through lectures, presentations by participants, videos and seminars, how gender affects and is affected by, the various aspects of development policy and development planning. It aims to acquaint participants of the ways in which gender forms an essential parameter of human environmental relations affecting the effectiveness of rural-urban development projects and programs in different regions of the developing world. Women thus often do not benefit from development activities and some cases become even poorer and more marginalized. It is not to be forgotten in this process, how men and women can contribute to preserving and retaining and improving upon indigenous knowledge systems, resources and technology. There is a great need for methodologies and techniques for gender analysis and training and personnel in development planning and environmental management.