The Gender-Environment-Livelihood Nexus. Women as Victims in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

      Аннотация: The Gender-Environment-Livelihood Nexus interrogates the relationship between environment and livelihoods in the Niger Delta Region and the various ways in which the women have become the victims of the activities of state and state-supported activities that compromise environmental services. Because most of the Niger Delta of Nigeria is rural, and because of the failure of government to provide essential social services, the typically poor women in the region depend on environmental resources for all household food, water and energy needs. However, climate change, activities of multinational oil and gas companies, as well as men’s exploitation of the forest resources have compromised the quality and quantity of the livelihood assets and asset portfolios of women. The book examines the environment and their livelihoods in the Niger Delta of Nigeria; women’s use of selected environmental resources; women’s plight; some collateral damages on them and reviews some policy deficits that perpetrate these damages. The proposed policy thrusts are targeted at the achievement of the gendered Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ключевые слова: Climate change, Environment, Gender, gender roles, Livelihoods, victims, Niger Delta Region of Nigeria, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), AGRO-FORESTRY, biomass, Employment, Energy poverty, Environmental damages, Environmental Resources, Forest Resources, gender discrimination, livelihood assets, Livelihood Strategies, Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), Water Resources, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, Gender Marginalization and Mainstreaming, Livelihood Portfolio, Diversification of Rural Livelihoods, Biomass Energy Conservation Technology, Improved Biomass Cook Stove, Collateral Damages, Health Damages, Economic Damages, Supplementary Incomes, Energy Ladder, Sustainable Livelihood Interventions, Sustainable Pro-poor Energy Supply, Non-Timber Forest Product Husbandry.