A Critique of Conceptual Frameworks in Gender and Natural Resource Governance

Abstract

This study focuses on three main conceptual frameworks used in the study of gender and environment. These are: Ecofeminism; Women, Gender and Environment (WED), and Gender, Environment and Development (GED). The primary concern for all these conceptual frameworks is on women and environment. Ecofeminism and WED focuses on gender analysis grounded in the social context of gender relations for environmental research and policy-making. GED provides a framework to understand processes of the (re)definition of men and women as categories, as well as the (re)organization of social relations, where power is both contested and reproduced.