Introduction

The chapter explores the uneven and scalar relationships between political, social, and ecological systems through current international empirical research and to generate multidisciplinary scholarship in feminist political ecology on gender, water, and global environmental change. It focuses on the practical implications of women's work and knowledge networks, and how these are linked to other forms of social differentiation as played out through the many forms of human relationships with water and global change. The chapter addresses the broader role of political ecology in framing issues of poverty, resilience, and social justice as related to global environmental change. It evaluates how feminist political ecology privileges the knowledge of those most affected by neoliberal, colonial, and patriarchal systems in which water and climate policy and practice are carried out. The feminist political ecology is particularly a productive framework to address these linkages that have been understudied in the environment and gender literature.