Understanding poverty in times of global environmental change

What is it about?

This article starts from the development debate on poverty seen as a persistent social problem in many societies. It then takes us into the related development debate on gender, which started with a call for more attention to women’s productive and reproductive work while later turning into issues of exploitation, empowerment and gender dynamics in relation to economic distribution and political representation and recognition. Finally, it feeds those ideas into the debates on environment and sustainability while pointing to the synergies that can be gained in terms of both critical knowledge and practical solutions from combining the three discourses.

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Why is it important?

From the perspective of the global South, such encompassing discussion combining development and gender into the context of global environmental change, is already, or should be, at the core of sustainability science and politics for sustainability.