Changing the Boundaries explores gender relations with respect to education, reproductive health services, and agricultural resources -- three factors that are widely recognized as being central to the struggle for gender equity, population control, and environmental sustainability. As well as defining the role of women in the population-environment quandary, author Janice Jiggins explains how that role is the key to understanding issues of population and environment. Throughout the volume, she makes extensive use of research, experience, and documentation that draws on the views and publications of women in the global South, much of which is available to development practitioners but is rarely found in academic libraries. Data, arguments, concepts, and analysis from a wide and varied range of sources are woven together to link the experience of women's daily lives with population policies and global environmental politics.

Les conférences internationales sur l'environnement ont sans aucun doute contribué à fédérer les Etats autour de l'idée de protéger leur environnement mais les politiques qui sont conduites dans les pays en voie de développement sont encore loin de donner les résultats escomptés. En partant d'une étude de cas, l'auteur montre, à travers son ouvrage, les principaux obstacles sur lesquels butent les politiques environnementales de ces pays, notamment de la Côte d'Ivoire et propose d'autres orientations concrètes pour améliorer l'efficacité de la lutte contre les atteintes traditionnelles à l'environnement.