Overview
- Meets the currently-unmet demand for an academic text on the intersecting themes of women, urbanization and sustainability
- Offers a distinctive insight into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable
- Considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means
- Is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and of sustainability efforts
Part of the book series: Gender, Development and Social Change (GDSC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Contesting Livelihoods, Land and Tenure
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Resisting Water and Food Insecurity
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Forging Women’s Rights to the City
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Book Title: Women, Urbanization and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
Editors: Anita Lacey
Series Title: Gender, Development and Social Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95182-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95181-9Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95753-8Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95182-6Published: 28 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-7328
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7336
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science, Urban Studies/Sociology, Gender Studies, Development and Sustainability, Development Economics