Women Participation in Environmental Management

Environmentalism in recent years has become a dominant discourse. The various fields of this discipline collectively promote a number of issues regarding environment and development. Developments require an understanding and control over human relationship with nature, otherwisely known as environmental management. Such management becomes meaningful only when women contribute and are allowed to contribute their full participation in the field. Development has fortunately given way to sustainable development, and growth has given way to 'green growth'. In India, as elsewhere, social science research has been closely linked to the rise and maturity of the environmental movement. After the Independence, there began an age of ecological innocence, when the urge to industrialise and 'catch up' with the developed world relegated environmental concern to the background. Now-a-days, the concern for maintaining ecological balance emerged in the form of vocal and articulate social movement.