ABSTRACT
This chapter examines approaches to the study of gender and sustainability and theoretical interconnections between these two concepts, particularly as seen through the lenses of livelihoods and globalization. Anthropological research on gender and environment aims to understand the complexity of the relationship between gender and sustainability and to bring in the interplay between local and global processes that affect the outcome of the human-environment relationships, particularly in countries of the Global South. The concept of sustainability helps us understand the effects of environmental change upon people and how they develop short- and long-term responses for coping with these changes. Many of the valuable contributions to the field of gender and sustainability can be traced back to earlier efforts of feminist scholars and activists to mainstream gender into development programs. In 'Contested Livelihoods: Gender, Fisheries, and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico', María Luz Cruz-Torres discusses how gender shapes access to control over fishing resources in southern Sinaloa, Mexico.
