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Women of the Mountains - Resources -
Michela Zucca
Without women, it is impossible to achieve sustainable development in mountain areas.
Women have crucial knowledge about resource use, traditional health systems, and social, cultural and spiritual customs. Their productive activities contribute to the economy; they promote family and community development; they create innovative solutions to cope with change under harsh physical and political conditions. In many mountain regions they constitute well over 50 percent of the population.
Resolution of Women of the Mountains
During the meeting Matriarchy and Mountains organised by Michela Zucca, the
assembly of the Women Mountain Network voted this resolution
RISOLUZIONE donne inglese.doc
Microsoft Word Dokument [27.0 KB]
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The Thimpu Declaration
Declaration of Celebrating Mountain Women of the world assembly of mountian
women - Thimpu, Bhutan, 2002
Bhutan dichiarazione Thimpu ing.doc
Microsoft Word Dokument [41.5 KB]
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An Umbearable Strain: right to
pleasure, traditional expectations, suppressed needs - presentation
As women leave, mountains die: since the last decades, Alpine communities are
facing a strong process of female depopulation, caused by conflict between
individual expectations and social demands.
UTAH.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Dokument [10.4 MB]
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Women and Reproductive Labour in
Alpine Society
Full paper about the conlict between social demands, rooted in patriarchal
tradition, and individual expectations, that women have to face in rural
communities in the Alps.
donne - india - 2006 - full paper.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Dokument [2.4 MB]
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Women from the mountains: from
silence to recognition
Throughout the centuries, women have succeeded in surviving in environmental
frontiers, maintaining a close relationship with nature, exploiting resources
and at the same time preserving the territory
donne relazione inglese silvia.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Dokument [69.7 KB]
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Women and food: production of
typical food and sustainable development in rural areas
Women are the more involved in production of quality food: it is an
anthropological chacteristic that can lead to new ways of sustainable
development and economic growth.
orvieto - women and food - ing.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Dokument [20.7 MB]
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