Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education and infrastructure.

Autorentext

Astrid Skjerven is Professor of Design Theory at the Department of Product Design, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

Maureen Fordham is Professor of Gender and Disaster Resilience and is the Director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Part 1: Empowerment 2. Engendering Sustainability Transitions by Design: How to critically unpack gender in Transition Management 3. Gender within Sustainable Decisions: A 3-D Sustainability Perspective 4. Gender Mainstreaming in Occupational Health and Safety: Challenges in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals 5. Gender Equality Related to Climate Risks: Cultural Vulnerabilities as Obstacles to Sustainability in Rural Communities in Mexico Part 2: Education 6. Sustainable Gender(E)Quality: Gender in Competence Assessment in the Arts 7. Sensitizing Nepalese Students for Gender Mainstreaming in Sustainable Planning and Design 8. Communication Design to Foster Gender Equality: Research and Experimentation in the Educational Field 9. Responsible Tech-Futures: Female Artists as Semantically Sustainable Tech Developers Part 3: Infrastructure 10. Changing Traditions: The Case of Amazonian Riverine Women and Belo Monte Hydropower Dam 11. Reimagining the Gender Roles within Japan to Achieve Sustainable Gender Equality 12. Gender and Sustainability in Ovacik and Hozat Cooperative Activities, Tunceli Province, Turkey