Environmental Security and Gender: Necessary Shifts in an Evolving Debate Export

@article{citeulike:4692624, abstract = {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.}, author = {Detraz, Nicole}, citeulike-article-id = {4692624}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636410902899933}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ss/2009/00000018/00000002/art00007}, doi = {10.1080/09636410902899933}, issn = {0963-6412}, journal = {Security Studies}, keywords = {environment, gender, hr, security, women}, number = {2}, pages = {345--369}, posted-at = {2009-11-07 02:10:19}, priority = {5}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Environmental Security and Gender: Necessary Shifts in an Evolving Debate}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636410902899933}, volume = {18}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4692624 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4692624 N2 - 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. IS - 2 JF - Security Studies SN - 0963-6412 EP - 369 TI - Environmental Security and Gender: Necessary Shifts in an Evolving Debate PB - Routledge VL - 18 SP - 345 KW - environment KW - gender KW - hr KW - security KW - women AU - Detraz, Nicole PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09636410902899933 ER -