The Future of Women conference since in its early phase (3rd in 2020) is a right time to transcend the gender discourse beyond the regular discourse of education, medical, social work, maternal health, safety, domestic issues, children development, professional and leadership challenges; to the natural and common pool resources management including role of women in managing the rivers, wetlands, forests, bio-diversity, animals, fish, birds, irrigation, infrastructure, climate change, poverty, knowledge and even the politics and the planet.
The proposed panel is a sequel of a successful panel organized at the 17th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons organized at Lima, Peru in July 2019, where we (with Prof. Tine de Moor of Utrecht University, The Netherlands) conducted two sessions on the ‘Gender Balance in the Commons Management Practices and Studies’ with eight entries discussing gender issues pan resources from across the globe. Being a regular member of the IASC scientific committee, it is a wish that the IASC and the FOW (with the proposed panel at the FOW2020) in future collaborate to strengthen the Gender Equality in all kinds of decision making in resource management for achieving responsible behavioral production and consumption patterns (SDG-12). Since the social-ecological resources of the planet are rapidly deteriorating/diminishing with the adverse political decisions augmented with the climate change impacts. Also, since women historically have been instrumental in bringing the necessary behavioral shifts from the core unit of a house to the village to the city and to the country level.
The panel intends to celebrate the women as equal partner in all the opportunities and challenges posed by the society and importantly women are onboard in the key decision and actions in the future. The panel, therefore, invites papers on the roles, the opportunities, the challenges and the milestones of women in the natural and common pool resource management and their studies spanning from urban to rural, local to global context.
The panel further invites papers from both urban and rural settings with a larger goal towards acknowledging the crucial role that women have in the natural and common pool resource management practices and studies. The panel hopes to receive a large response from contributors and depending on the submission the panel will be re-organised.
If you are interested in contributing, please contact Dr. Mansee Bal Bhargava at mansee.bal.bhargava@gmail.com.