Agarawal, Bina2019-09-252019-09-252011-06-251995-041012-6511http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/179508"This paper examines the interlinks between gender, poverty and environmental change in rural India, focusing in particular on regional variations and temporal shifts over the past two decades. The paper is divided into five sections. Section I gives an overview of the kinds of links that can be established between gender, poverty and environmental change. In particular, it focuses on the factors underlying the declining availability of natural resources, and the implications of this decline for women in poor rural households. On the basis of selected indicators, section II outlines the broad regional differences in gender bias, environmental disadvantage, and poverty incidence. Section III presents a series of indices (which I term the GEP indices) which measure variations in gender-environment-poverty vulnerability across different states of India, and shifts in vulnerability over the period 1971-1991. Section IV takes a brief look at grassroots and governmental responses to environmental degradation, and Section V offers some concluding comments."(pg 1 )Pages: 60engWith permission of the license/copyright holderGender ethicspovertyCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsSocial ethicsFamily ethicsSexual orientation/genderEducation and ethicsMinority ethicsBook