Despite the goals set out in international human rights law and other global regulatory instruments intended to bring about change, women and girls worldwide still face massive inequalities and challenges, many emanating from centuries-old cultural attitudes and a largely male-centric economic, political and legal order. But if women scholars were to take a look at the world’s environmental problems, might their different perspectives yield some fresh ideas about our environmental future?
This book, Perspectives of Women Scholars in International Environmental Law, brings together the work of a diverse group of women authors, including younger scholars, from every continent. They focus on issues of special concern to women and girls, bringing a feminist perspective to the legal frameworks and analyzing international agreements either recently concluded or in negotiation. The book is divided into five parts: the function of international law; sustainability; climate change; biological diversity; and the circular economy, and topics covered include gender inequality, links between the exploitation of women and of resources, the impact on women of land titling and land use, effects of disasters and climate change on women and girls, vulnerabilities of women and children to climate-induced migration, and the many ways in which environmentally sustainable development raises issues of concern to women and girls.
Originally published in a special issue of the journal Environmental Policy and Law (EPL), and now published separately in this edited volume, the papers included here will be of interest to all those concerned about the future of our planet Earth, as witnessed in the UN Summit of the Future (New York; September 22-23, 2024).
