Gender Relations and Forest Resource Management in Post-COVID-19 Age
Publisher: Oil Mortality in Post-Fossil Fuel Era Nigeria
Author(s): Augustine Sadiq Okoh
Date: 2020
Topics: Gender, Governance, Renewable Resources
Countries: Nigeria
Gender relation will play critical role in exiting fossil fuel while also ensuring the post-COVID-19 age is aligned with the global mechanism such as the Paris Agreement and SDGs. How different genders participate in the decarbonization measures is critical to building a climate resilient society. But this faces several constraints. Gender sensitive forest resources management in Nigeria has not fully taken shape as resources management is dominated by androcentric agenda. Through the use of power this patriarchal society has succeeded in preventing women from equitably participating in the flow of forest resources. Thus, has placed women in silos that require men gifting them participation in forest resources use. It finds that the problem is not so much want of policies formulated to deal with this dichotomous relationship but more of the hegemonic tendency of the externally driven rationalization of nature causing an inconstant role of women in forest management. To eliminate gender bias forest resources management in the Coronavirus age must be based on equity where all resources are sustainably utilized by all such that it does not hamper its regenerative potential.