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Vol.1 Issue 24, October 2020
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Environmental Feminism and

Resource Management in the Light
Dina Ibrahim
of the Coronavirus Crisis (5)
FEPS Political Science Assistant Lecturer

This article seeks to resume what was covered in the previous article society in its broadest definition. These responsib ilities and rights fall on
resources that have an original contribution to prod uction processes, such
on analytical frameworks for resource management from an
as land, water, trees and animals, as well as enviro nmental quality.
environmental feminism perspective, which is centrally concerned
This framework pays great attention to the qualitati ve division of
with understanding development, environment and ecology issues
resources as well as the qualitative division of po wer relations to ensure
from a gender perspective, considering all issues raised in this regard
the operations of maintaining, preserving, building, changing and
are issues of a qualitative dimension, i.e., are critically affected The restoring environments and reorganizing the practice s of individuals
towards them. This division reflects the differenti ation of rights and
power relations involved in gender relations.
responsibilities between men and women to create an d maintain a
This article focuses on the second framework, which is gendered
healthy biophysical environment, as well as the impor tance of those
environmental rights and responsibilities. It raises a number of
responsibilities and responsibilities in determining the quality of the
important questions about: Who controls the resources? Who has the environment and life.
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right to have more access to it? Who determines the rights to
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distribute them? Who determines the quality of a healthy the idea of dealing with environmental responsibilit ies and
environment? responsibilities on the basis of gender from the pe rspective of place
policies, as the areas of access to and control over resources are
The previous questions are essential when examining the controversy
differentiated between men and women, so a distinct ion is often made
surrounding the relationship of gender with environmental rights in
between private and public spaces and the degree of their access to
this analytical framework, where environmental feminism raises resources in the private sphere. Or the year. This b ecomes clear when
comparing the home and workplace. The economic vuln erability of
questions about gender and the underlying power relations and
women has already been addressed from a feminist ec ological
frameworks for economic development, while many feminist
perspective on both the theoretical and practical l evels in the third part of
criticisms of development focus on a specific issue, namely the
the article.
degree of access to resources and control. on her.
The idea of designing spaces and places on the basi s of gender plays an
important role in resource management through the po wer of employing
The issue of resource tenurebased on gender is one of the issues
the spatial dimension and the various and distinct d ivisions in a dramatic
initially addressed in the context of rural development studies, as
way according to the cultural factor, which affects the formation of
well as in the study of the impact of gender-based power relations on
resource acquisition, distribution and consumption s ystems, as well as
the quality of the environment in industrial sites and urban
the quality of the environment.
environments. The framework of gender-based environmental
Despite the prevailing trend in dealing with the issu e of the tenureof
responsibilities and rights provides a broader view and interest in the resources between the various parties in a fixed, ma terial way, it actually
detracts from the changing factors such as the confl icting groups with
rural and urban contexts, crossing different regions.
their qualitative, class and ethnic differences, the changing places, as
This framework deals with addressing both environmental rights and
well as the time factor that affects the value of re sources, which changes
responsibilities on the basis of gender that affect the individual's
with changing needs, capabilities, knowledge and sk ills Mankind in
chances of accessing, distributing and controlling resources in the
addition to power relations which makes the issue of tenure and control
of resources a major problem in this context calls f or asking questions
private spheres as in the home institution, and in the public, i.e. in
about the types of rights and responsibilities in t he use of resources from
the perspective of environmental feminism, which is the topic of the next
issue. ,,, Follow.
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