Gender Equality and Sustainable Development

Melissa Leach is the Director of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Between 2006 and 2014 she directed the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre.

"Melissa Leach has brought together an outstanding team of practitioners and researchers to produce a crisply written and engaging review of the interlinkages among gender, environment and sustainable development. The forward-looking collection both challenges unsustainable pathways and charts new ones. A must read for all those working in the field of sustainable development."–Wendy Harcourt, Associate Professor, Erasmus University, The Netherlands"This is an excellent volume, with both range and depth. It not only brings an essential gender perspective to the issue of sustainable development, but also highlights the insufficiency of recognising women’s contributions without providing them resources and voice. The lucid introduction, with its reflections on past and current debates, and on alternative pathways, is a significant contribution in itself." – Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester, UK"This timely book provides innovative and exciting ideas for both scholars and policy makers, challenging dominant market-led development models. It shows how pathways to achieve sustainable development and gender equality can be built through women’s collective action at the grassroots and supportive public investment and services." – Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex, UK "This astute group of critical observers and participants dare to question the dominant narratives of capitalism, sustainability and development as well as facile gender and development formulas. They reiterate the critical feminist question "Sustaining what for whom?" and acknowledge the political choices embodied in green technologies, green economies and the feminization of planetary care work." – Dianne Rocheleau, Professor of Geography, Clark University

• 1. Sustainable Development: A Gendered Pathways Approach 2. Pathways towards Sustainability in the Context of Globalization: A Gendered Perspective on Growth, Macro Policy, and Employment 3. Population, Sustainable Development and Gender Equality 4. Re-framing Food Security as if Gender Equality and Sustainability Mattered 5. Gender and Land Grabs in Comparative Perspective 6. Transformative Investments for Gender-Equal Sustainable Development 7. Gender Equality and Sustainable Development: The Limits and Potential of Global Policy Reports