Gender-mainstreaming, governance, and the environment: an analysis of forest loss

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2022.2065428

Andrew Hargrove, J. Sommer

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ABSTRACT Gender mainstreaming is the push in international governance and development to use women’s empowerment, inclusion and labor to be more inclusive and help solve development issues. Research has found that when women are involved in projects, environmental outcomes are more likely to succeed. Over the past 30 years, environmental bilateral development aid has been increasing. Extant research has theorized the relationship between environmental aid, women’s empowerment and forest loss. However, results have been mixed, with some finding that female-focused environmental aid reduces forest loss, while others find that it increases forest loss. To add to this debate, we argue that bilateral aid may be moderated by quality of the receiving nation’s governance. Using high-quality satellite forest loss data, we use ordinary least-squares regression with robust standard errors for a sample of 85 low- and middle-income nations from 2000 to assess if nations with high levels of governance facilitate bilateral aid effectiveness that focuses simultaneously on gender equality and environmental protection. We find that in nations with high levels of governance, bilateral environmental gender aid is significantly associated with reduced levels of forest loss.

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性别主流化、治理和环境:森林损失分析

性别主流化是在国际治理和发展中推动妇女赋权、包容和劳动，使其更具包容性，帮助解决发展问题。研究发现，当女性参与项目时，环境结果更有可能成功。过去30年来，环境双边发展援助不断增加。现有的研究已将环境援助、妇女赋权和森林损失之间的关系理论化。然而，结果好坏参半，一些人发现以女性为重点的环境援助减少了森林损失，而另一些人则发现它增加了森林损失。为了增加这一争论，我们认为双边援助可能会受到受援国治理质量的制约。利用高质量的卫星森林损失数据，我们对2000年以来85个低收入和中等收入国家的样本使用了具有稳健标准误差的普通最小二乘回归，以评估具有高治理水平的国家是否促进了同时关注性别平等和环境保护的双边援助的有效性。我们发现，在治理水平高的国家，双边环境性别援助与减少森林损失水平显著相关。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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4.60

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.

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