Urban environment
Gender equality in urban environmental management in selected south east Asian cities
What are the key gender and urban environmental issues in southeast Asian cities?
Authors:
K Kusakabe; M. Mozammel; R.A. Rajbhandri
Publisher:
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2007
This compiled report deals with the gender issues in three sectors of Urban Environmental Management: water and sanitation, solid waste and air pollution in Southeast Asia.
Authors provide articles on the gender situation in a number of southeast Asian cities. Key points from a selection of these include:
- although women in Lao have the legal right to take part in all state, economic and social development activities of the country, they are in fact generally poorer, less educated, and have fewer opportunities than men
- Bangkok is the hub for off-farm employment and for the influx of the rural-urban migrants in the wake of rapid urbanisation. Rapid urbanisation poses significant challenges to the Urban Environmental Management including water and sanitation, solid waste and air pollution. Women and men experience these challenges differently
- issues of the urban environment have not been given a great deal of attention or resources in Timor-Leste. In a new, poor country like Timor-Leste, there are many critical needs and demands on government for public attention. It is therefore important to think strategically how to move forward and maximise the use of minimal available resources.
