Louise Fortmann, Residential Research Fellow at IRWG, and Rudy Grah Chair in Forestry and Sustainable Development, University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the School of Earth Sciences.
The environmental sciences are not biophysical high-tech practices located at a great intellectual distance from mere mortals. Rather they are a set of (sometimes more, sometimes less) interconnected ways of producing knowledge about the environment drawn the humanities and the social and biophysical sciences as well as civil sciences. At their best, their analyses recognize that the biophysical and social structures and processes that produce our environment can not be adequately understood unless they are addressed together. Louise Fortmann will describe how gender analysis contributes to these sciences through framing new questions, producing new knowledge, and developing new policy approaches. She suggests we consider: What's bad for mother is often bad for Mother Nature.
Part of the Institute's Gender Forum series.