ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the 'state of the art' of the academic field of gender and environment. One intention is to showcase the variety of perspectives, themes, and debates that have shaped the intellectual project of understanding the gender-environment nexus within the social sciences and humanities for over four decades. Another is to demonstrate that under the banner of 'gender and environment' sits a diverse, theoretically – sophisticated, and empirically grounded collection of approaches that have a common a set of concerns about gender injustice and the degradation of the natural environment. Gender and environment scholars are in agreement that gender is missing from most environmental fields and are united in their bafflement at the limited impact that feminist environmental insights and interventions have had on mainstream environmental research. The chapter also presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book.
