Environmental conservation, protection and rehabilitation

Contributors:

• Beth Blissman
• Anna McLean
• Devan Zingler
• Ellen Ferranti
• Maria Jose Lubertino
• Pamela Morgan
• Sarah Shapiro

This effort to connect various UN documents and movements related to the rights of girls and women to the wider context of our environment comes at a time of great change. Since the 4th Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the past quarter century has seen scientific consensus emerge that our fossil-fuel-based economies have rapidly depleted Earth’s natural resource base in a complex inter-connected manner. At this time, if we continue to practice “business as usual,” we are undermining even the ability of ecosystems to be able to heal and regenerate or restore themselves.

Overview

If we truly wish to achieve the SDGs and bring about a better world, we need multiple shifts in mind-set:  from patriarchy to equality and equity, and also from controlling nature to a mind-set of learning from nature how to sustain existence in cooperation with all life.  As there is so much work that now needs to be accomplished to restore the natural environment, fully address the climate crisis, and transition to a sustainable economy, these shifts in mind-set could provide more than enough worthwhile jobs for everyone long into the future. We hope that this section of the fwMAP Teaching Compendium – coupled with the Beijing+25 Action Coalition on “Feminist Action for Climate Justice” – offers some inspirational resources to this end.

• Contributor Biographies & Table of Contents (.pdf)
• Overview and Introduction (.pdf)

Subtopics

• Women as Environmental Defenders (.pdf)
• Food Systems – Effects on Women and Girls (.pdf)
• Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (.pdf)
• Women, Climate and Nuclear Disarmament (.pdf)
• Environmental Justice (.pdf)
• Effects of Climate-Induced Migration on Women and Girls (.pdf)