Powerful-synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability

This is a collection of evidence-based papers by scholars and practitioners that explore the interconnections between gender equality and sustainable development across a range of sectors and global development issues such as energy, health, education, food security, climate change, human rights, consumption and production patterns, and urbanization. The publication provides evidence from various sectors and regions on how women's equal access and control over resources not only improves the lives of individuals, families and nations, but also helps ensure the sustainability of the environment

Religion and Sustainable Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education

This publication is focused on the interface between religion, sustainable development and higher education. It is based on the underlying research question : How are the different worldviews and religions as well as the debate about their alleged contributions to sustainable development incorporated in the academic disciplines of religious studies and theology

Chapter 4: Cross-cutting Issues

Environmental pollution is still a major source of damage to the health of the planet (well established), human health (well established), equity (well established) and economic sustainability (established but incomplete). The risks, however, are systemic and wide-ranging, including climate change, ecosystem and biodiversity loss, wildlife damage, systemic change and other major issues

Coordination Specialist; Anna Maria Hoffman, Education

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Genre, mouvements populaires urbains et environnement

Le désordre urbain et les défis environnementaux que nous connaissons ne sont pas perçus ni vécus pareillement aux Suds et aux Nords, par les femmes et les hommes, par les puissants et les exclus. Les mouvements populaires urbains et de lutte pour l'environnement participent de la réflexion sur les changements de paradigme de développement qui sont urgents et nécessaires. La perspective de genre donne des clés de lecture pour comprendre comment les asymétries féminin-masculin structurent la perception et l’organisation concrète de la vie sociale. La forte présence des femmes dans les organisations urbaines et de lutte pour l’environnement est généralement peu ou pas reconnue. Ce livre explore certains mouvements populaires urbains, qui participent au travail de prise de conscience et de revendications de droits et qui permettent ainsi d'envisager des alternatives sur des territoires de vie, sans plus attendre