This article promotes community organized gardens and their social benefits. Defines Eco-Feminism. Gives examples of successful community garden projects. Lists ways to start a garden in your neighbourhood.
Les villes qui favorisent l’égalité entre les sexes : les milieux bâtis et les environnements physiques
Owning Org:
Centres of Excellence for Womens Health (CEWH)
National Network on Environment and Women's Health (NNEWH)
Media Type:
Online
Author:
Prabha Khosla
Explores the current form and structure of urban centres. Demonstrates how a gender-sensitive built environment would integrate the economies of unpaid work in the home with paid work outside the home.
L’intégration d’une perspective du genre au sein des gouvernements locaux
Owning Org:
Centres of Excellence for Womens Health (CEWH)
National Network on Environment and Women's Health (NNEWH)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
Sonja Greckol
Outlines key definitions, strategies, and challenges of gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting. Provides an overview of initiatives developed by Ottawa and Montreal to address gender and diversity at the municipal level.
National Network on Environment and Women's Health (NNEWH)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
Rafia Haniff-Cleofas
Rabia Khedr
Looks at the social participation of women with disabilities. Examines how issues of identity, accessibility, poverty, housing supports, transportation, and urban governance intersect with one another.
Provides tools, policies and best practices used in Canadian municipalities to effectively involve diverse women in municipal decision-making processes.
Forms an organization that works to improving the quality of life in all communities by promoting strong, effective and accountable municipal government. // Forme un organisme voué à améliorer la qualité de vie dans toutes les collectivités en favorisant des gouvernements municipaux forts, efficaces et responsables.
Forme un site Web qui sert de lieu d'échange et de documentation sur la sécurité des femmes. / Forms a website that provides a forum for discussions and documentation on women's safety.
Researchs urban development issues in a broad, non-partisan context and has never lost sight of the demands of applied research aimed at practical, often novel, solutions to urban problems.
