This title was first published in 2000. Priya Kurian's research offers environmental policy scholarship a new, theoretically rich, and empirically validated approach to understanding the significance of gender to environmental policy.

Priya A. Kurian, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Contents: Theoretical Perspectives: Introduction; Theorizing gender: a framework of analysis; A gender evaluation of EIA theories; Women, development and environment: implications for EIA. A Case Study of the World Bank: The rhetoric of gender, gendered rhetoric: EIA in the context of the world bank's social policies; The world bank's EIA policy; The Sardar Sarovar project: history and politics; EIA in practice; Revisiting gender and EIA; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.