ABSTRACT
Perhaps it is too much to argue that environmental impact assessment is a revolutionary practice; it cannot do what revolutions seek-the establishment of a radically new social and political order by the overthrow of the old. But certainly EIA can be a transformative practice. EIA can help 'transmogrify' institutions (Bartlett, 1990). Indeed, scholars have argued that EIA offers us one way of rethinking and reconceptualizing how to do environmental policy in a way that could bring about changes in institutions and in behaviours that would ensure environmental sustainability while simultaneously allowing social and political rationality in decision making. Yet, as I have argued in the preceding chapters, much of EIA's potential is unrealizable in any satisfactory way without taking the gender dimension of environmental resource use into consideration.1
