Scapini / Ciampi Coastal Water Bodies

Nature and Culture Conflicts in the Mediterranean
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-8854-3
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 167 Seiten, eBook

Addressing the links between science and the real world with a sound scientific baseline, Coastal Water Bodies targets researchers of various disciplines whose interest lies in the integrated sustainable management of coastal water bodies. The main topic of this book is not the ecology according to its accepted meaning, but rather the ‘places and people’ concerned – the coastal zones of the Mediterranean that are rich in ecological value and the local people who survive thanks to these environmental resources. Integration is the joint consideration of different aspects of water uses and values, and new ways of understanding and managing conflicts around water use are needed if people are to benefit from integration. Sustainability of the ecological and socioeconomic environments requires a climate in which conflicts, if they need to exist, are properly managed in a non-destructive manner.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scapini, Felicita

Ciampi, Gabriele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Mediterranean Coastal Areas at Risk Between Conservation and Development.- Wetland Socioeconomy: The Case of Lake Maryut (Egypt).- Integration of the Gender Dimension into Socioeconomics Analysis.- Environmental Conflicts and Conflict Management: Some Lessons from the WADI Experience at El Hondo Nature Park (South-Eastern Spain).- Soil Salinisation in the Grosseto Plain (Maremma, Italy): An Environmental and Socio-Economic Analysis of the Impact on the Agro-Ecosystem.- Evolution, Impacts and Management of the Wetlands of the Grosseto Plain, Italy.- The Ombrone Delta and the Two Chief Systems of the World Today: Environmentalist and Economicist.

Leseproben

"Chapter 3 Integration of the Gender Dimension into Socioeconomics Analysis Lucia Fanini (p. 45-46)

Abstract Men and women carry out different and complementary activities, specially if we consider rural environments. The environmental resources are therefore differently used and perceived with respect to gender, and different needs may emerge. To achieve equality conditions, these features should be considered in a constructive way and in an integrated perspective, avoiding gender segregation also in the theoretical perspective. Women activities and duties are often related to the domestic sphere and, even if essential to the household, generally do not generate money flow, so they may escape the socioenomic approach. A tuning is needed, to give voice to all social components, also considering their different (in space, time, status, power, etc.) scales. This chapter synthetically illustrates how the challenge of gender integration in the socioeconomic analysis was faced throughout the WADI project.

Keywords Gender And Development (GAD) • Rural environments • Traditional activities • Empowerment

3.1 Introduction

In socioeconomic analysis, there is an emerging need of an integrated analysis and management of resources. The integration of gender aspects is a further step required to deal with the correct representation of complex environmental systems in their broad sense, that is including natural and human socio-cultural diversity. With the idea that diversity is richness, knowledge about gender issues should beused to identify intrinsic values of the contexts and should represent a background for potential development. This is true at multiple scales, but at the local scale (i.e. the community level) it is particularly important that different social components, such as men and women, are linked in different ways to environmental resources.

Therefore, the different social components can be differently affected by management choices, current policies or trends of change. In agreement with the Gender And Development (GAD) approach, integration of the gender perspective is not intended merely as the collection of gender disaggregated data or the collection of ‘data regarding women’; it involves a strategy for data collection and data analysis tuned to each study site, to achieve an overview of the situation of men, women, environment and their relationships.

Within the WADI project, aimed at building scenarios of sustainability, the final goal of the gender analysis was the identification of challenges towards empowerment (following Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women), keeping in mind that the empowerment of people is the consequence of a social, economic, political and legal balance between the different social components regardless of their ability to generate money flow.

In particular, rural environments are strictly linked to the ecological framework, as people not only depend directly on agriculture and/or fishing but also on activities, such as rural tourism, based on the attractiveness of the landscape, which is shaped by the local inhabitants. In such a fragile equilibrium, the path to sustainable development can receive many inputs from the integration of gender issues by means of an identification of the key roles and the potential of empowerment."