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This volume highlights women´s work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women´s role in the green entrepreneurship, women´s reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.

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Preface; W.Harcourt Introduction Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods; W.Harcourt & J.Stremmelaar Redefining Sustainable Livelihoods; S.Krishna PARTI: FRAMING GENDER AND LIVELIHOOD CONCERNS TODAY Women Advocating for Gender Equality and Sustainable Livelihoods on the Global Stage; I.Dankelman Towards Gender Equality in Global Sustainable Consumption and Production Agreements; K.Sexsmith Gender Equality in Certified Agricultural Value Chains; N.Verhart & R.Pyburn Global Agricultural Policies, Institutional Interventions and Women´s Livelihoods; A.Rao Global Institutions Try to Get it Right: An Insider´s Perspective; G.Bloom PART II: GENDER AND LIVELIHOODS IN PLACE Your Caring Sharing Co-op: Women, Work and Sustainability in a Polanyian Paradigm; M.S.Cato Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in India: ´Side-stream´/´Mainstream´; S.Krishna The Dream Merchants Have No Clothes: Women´s Rights and Empowerment in the Micro Finance Regime; S.K.Parthasarathy The Cost of Peace: Exploring Opportunities for Women´s Livelihoods in Post Conflict Settings; S.Aguiari Sustaining Women´s and Community Livelihoods in Rural Tanzania; M.Masaiganah Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender in the Marginal Alpine Communities of Trentino; M.Zucca Indigenous Women Claiming Their Land; M.B.Rius PART III: EMERGING ISSUES FOR GENDER AND LIVELIHOODS Biocapital, Biopolitics and Biosocialities: Reframing Health, Livelihoods and Environments with New Genetics and Biotechnology; L.Acero Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in Urban Honiara; A.Lacey Gender and Climate Justice; A.Agostino & R.Lizarde Epilogue Green Washing Warnings; W.Harcourt

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"Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods is a timely, well-edited collection of essays that explores women´s roles in, and relationship to, the sustainable development ne e environmental movement . . . It unpacks the mainstream assumptions that negatively influence what Harcourt and the authors of the collection argue are truly sustainable approaches to women´s and men´s livelihoods." - Signs

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