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EDUC 545: Theory and practice of education development Article review presentation

EDUC 545: Theory and practice of education development Article review presentation. Prakash Raj Pandey M.Phil. (Semester II) Kathmandu University 2010. Article. Gender, environment and poverty linkages Siddhartha Sarkar

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EDUC 545: Theory and practice of education development Article review presentation

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  1. EDUC 545: Theory and practice of education developmentArticle review presentation Prakash Raj Pandey M.Phil.(Semester II) Kathmandu University 2010

  2. Article Gender, environment and poverty linkages Siddhartha Sarkar Journal of Development and Agriculture Economics Vol. 2(4), pp 145-156, April 2010. Retrieved from: www.academicjournals.org/JDAE

  3. Structure of the article • Three parts • Review of literature • Research report • Conclusion Claims to be full-fledged research article

  4. Main points (Review) • Women face inequalities in education, assets, and power • Women have to fetch water, contact water more than men do • Women stay more inside the house than men do • Women stay at villages when men migrate outside for job • Poor survive by picking waste thrown by the rich • Loss of biodiversity has more impact on local users of natural resources

  5. Main points (Review) • Potential conflict between locals and global community • Convention on Biodiversity– to maximize the social and economic benefits from the protection and sustainable use of resources, and their equitable distribution

  6. Main points (Research) • To study environmental impact of pollution on rural women • 240 women of six villages of Jajpaiguri of West Bengal, head of village panchayat, and health centers • Women and children badly affected by pollution • Average number of days a women unable to work 30

  7. Main points (Conclusion) • Political will to eradicate poverty • Rights regime • Community-based decision making • Support community based organizations, civil society organizations, community-level capacity development particularly of women • Intervention of government • Government officials – need to better understand social and ecological constraints. • Co-management of natural resources

  8. Overall impression • Rich in review of literature – informative • Links with MDG • Defines important concepts like common resources livelihood, sustainable livelihood, survival and livelihood diversification strategy, human development • Draws from international experience of environment degradation, pressure on environment, and pollution • Explains dimensions of poverty and the change in methodology of poverty measurement • Focused more on linkage between environmental and poverty rather than on triangular relationship with gender as well • Research part sketchy • Conclusions are more like recommendations

  9. Comparing with others • Does not mention “avoidable downward spiral” • Does not fully recognise the capacity of the rural poor to adapt and manage natural resources • Does not recognise alternative agriculture and resource conservation technologies with environment benefits • (Scherr, 2000)

  10. Comparing with others • Does not recognise constraints and global concerns fully • Inequality among various social groups • HIV/AIDS, debt, conflict and terrorism • Global warming, acid rain • Does not deconstruct the received knowledge • Poor people are the principal creators of environmental damage • Population growth leads to environmental degradation • The poverty-environment nexus basically stems from low incomes • Does not propose to delink economic growth and natural resource use • (Jehan and Umana,2002)

  11. Comparing with others • Does not discuss concepts like • Environment Kuznets Curve – relation between air pollution and economic growth like inverted U. • Beckerman Hypothesis – growth provides accumulated assets that can be used to ameliorate environmental degradation, it makes sense to degrade now and pay later to put things right. • Porter Hypothesis – high levels of environment protection are compatible with high levels of economic growth and may encourage innovation that supports growth. • (Jehan and Umana,2002)

  12. Reference: • Jehan, S. & Umana, A. (2002). Environment-povery nexus. Retrieved from www.sarpan. org.za/documents/ d000349/ UNDP_ Report_5pdf • Scherr, S. J. (2000). A downward spiral? Research evidence on the relationship between poverty and natural resource degradation. Food Policy 25 (2000). Retrieved from www.elsevier.com

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