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  • Gender and energy planning

    This paper highlights a number of different positions that can be taken regarding the reason for and purpose of a gender approach in energy planning. The two extreme positions ‘gender for efficiency’ and ‘gender for equity’ are described. Most energy planners are found somewhere in between these extremes. Next the question of how the gender…

  • Gender and wood energy

    Gender and wood energy

    This special edition of Wood Energy News on ‘Gender and Wood Energy’ focuses on a number of issues: it aims to answer why gender in wood energy development is important to take into account, presents gender analysis tools, describes the institutionalisation of the gender approach, country papers on gender and wood energy, and presents the…

  • ENERGIA News 1, December 1996 – From Rio to Beijing: Engendering the energy debate

    New perspectives in the energy sector adopted at the Rio Conference, and new approaches to gender issues discussed at the Beijing Conference, are especially congenial to the adoption of a gender approach in energy policy and planning at this time. This article suggests that mutual concerns in energy fora and gender circles, jointly addressed, could…