Editorial: Gender Relations and Environmental Change

In recent years, linkages between gender and the environment have become an important focus both of research and of development policy and practice. They figured strongly at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, 1992, and seem set to do so in the forthcoming Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At IDS, genderenvironment relations have been a major theme of recent work, with the Environment Group linking into the Institute's long tradition of work on gender and development (e.g. Leach 1994; Joekes et al 1994).