Bina Agarwal

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little attention to gender. Research on gender and green governance in other disciplines has focused mainly on women's near absence from forestry institutions. This interdisciplinary book turns that focus on its head to ask: what if women were present in these...

Using primary data from India and Nepal, this volume is the first major study to comprehensively address the issue of gender and the role of women in relation to environmental collective action and green governance. It traces women's history of exclusion from public institutions and looks at how constraints can be overcome....