Abstract

As a Horizon 2020 Eco-Innovation Strategies Project, Urban Waste has pioneered embedding gender throughout its design, structure, implementation and evaluation. This paper reviews the experience of gender mainstreaming waste minimisation in eleven case study tourist areas across Europe. Bearing in mind the male-dominated nature of waste management, and the limitations of gender mainstreaming noted in the critical literature which we review, we conclude that organisational and attitudinal changes towards gender equality during the project were achieved through attentive awareness raising and training, suggesting that the fundamental changes needed to achieve gender equality require intensive engagement. This engagement has produced a number of recommendations which the project summarises under the URBAN-WASTE – 690452 – D3.6 D3.6 Paper on gender mainstreaming in urban planning: case on waste management 3 categories of communication, staffing, consultation and public participation, equipment and strategic change. We further argue that, given the apparent correspondence between engagement with gender equality and improvements in waste minimisation (measured by gross CO2e reductions), such intensive engagement is worthwhile substantively, to ensure gender equality within waste management, and instrumentally, to achieve improvements in waste minimisation.

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Publisher: Urban Strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities

SLU Authors

• Eriksson, Mattias

  • Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls


UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography


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