Traditional knowledge and natural resource governance: a gender perspective

Abstract

The gendered nature of land use practices, whether traditional or modern, should, according to the Akwé: Kon Voluntary Guidelines, be recognized and included in land use planning. However, this is not always the case. Using examples from the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Sweden, this chapter demonstrates how gender-based analysis, by means of different frameworks of complexity, can be useful in planning for the sustainable use of natural resources. The frameworks used are increasingly complex and interrelated, namely gender as an empirical variable, gender as a relational and structuralizing category and gender as a meaning category. Regardless of traditional or modern land use practice, our three examples support the perception of the gendered nature of land use knowledge, and clearly demonstrate how the Akwé: Kon Voluntary Guidelines on gender considerations and gender-based analysis can be connected to participatory GIS.

Title: Sharing knowledge for land use management : Decision-making and expertise in Europe’s northern periphery
ISBN: 9781789901887, eISBN: 9781789901894
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

SLU Authors

• Lidestav, Gun

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Sandström, Per

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Sandström, Stefan

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Human Geography
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Gender Studies


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901894.00011

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/111058