| ID | 088714 |
| Title Proper | Environmental security and gender |
| Other Title Information | necessary shifts in an evolving debate |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Detraz, Nicole |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Environmental security is a topic of study that has gained significant attention in the past few decades. Largely since the end of the Cold War, environmental security has come to represent a way for scholars and policy makers to link the concepts of traditional security scholarship to the environment. Many different conceptions of the relationship between the environment and security appear in academia. Yet despite the diversity of current work on the environment and security, there has been little systematic work done that examines the intersection between environmental security and gender. This article will address the necessity of including gender into the approaches on the environment and security. The environmental security debate exhibits gendered understandings of both security and the environment. These gendered assumptions and understandings benefit particular people but are often detrimental to others. Examining environmental security through a gender lens gives insight into the gendered nature of global environmental politics and redefines the concept in ways that are more useful, both empirically and analytically. The various environmental security perspectives have important, unexplored gender dimensions that must be uncovered so that the security of humans and the environment can be better protected |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Studies Vol. 18, No.2; Apr-June 2009: p345-369 |
| Journal Source | Security Studies Vol. 18, No.2; Apr-June 2009: p345-369 |
| Key Words | Environmental Security - Gender ; Gender - Environmental Security ; Evolving Debate ; Ecological Security ; Feminist Environmental Security |