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Women targeted and women negated: an aspect of the environmental movement in Bangladesh

Author: Manzurul Mannan
Issue: Vol. 6, Number 2 1996

In Bangladesh, government organisations and non-governmental organisations are implementing programmes and energy-saving projects in an effort to save the environment. This article examines such programmes in the specific area of improved stove technology. It shows that inadequate assessment of the environment by environmentalists and development practitioners has led them to select inappropriate technology that has resulted in the failure to incorporate women in the energy-saving movement. It identifies the reasons behind womens rejection of a technology that was imposed rather than based on an appreciation of their distinct problems, culture, and ecology.

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