ABSTRACT
Political ecology has brought home the importance of understanding local resource users and their decision-making environment in the analysis of natural resource use and management (Blaikie 1985; Blaikie and Brookfield 1987; Sheridan 1988). Feminist political ecologists have emphasized the need to understand both gender differentiation of natural resource use and management, and how broader social relations affect women's use of the environment as compared to men's (Walker 1995; Carney and Watts 1990; Jackson 1993; Rocheleau 1995; Schroeder 1994). Researchers have explored these questions at a variety of scales from the village to the city.
