Ecosystem services: A gender perspective

Nowadays there is an explicit acknowledgment by the sustainability research and policy agenda (e.g. Aichi targets of Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Development Goals) of the necessity of including the gender perspective for understanding the factors that underpin sustainable and equitable ecosystem management strategies (Banerjee and Bell, 2007; Arora-Jonsson, 2014; Meinzen-Dick et al., 2014). We consider gender as a social construct that determines one’s identity, roles and rights through the attitudes and relationships generated by being a member of society. 2