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Gendering Sustainability: Reframing sustainable development as gender justice

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Yvonne A. Braun is an assistant professor in the Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and International Studies at the University of Oregon. She has conducted ethnographic, interview, and survey research in Lesotho and Southern Africa over a period of fourteen years, and her research and publications are in the area of gender, development, inequality, and environmental justice.

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Sets out the importance of gender equality crosscutting the sustainability policy debate

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Braun, Y. Gendering Sustainability: Reframing sustainable development as gender justice. Development 54, 209–211 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.35

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