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Women in Politics, Protecting the Environment in Northeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Miranda A. Schreurs
Miranda A. Schreurs*
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University of Maryland, College Park
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Abstract

Women are under-represented in politics in Northeast Asian countries. Yet, in the environmental realm, women have assumed prominent political, bureaucratic, and NGO positions. This article examines some of the forms that women's participation in environmental protection has taken in Japan, Korea, and China and attempts to assesses the reasons why women are engaging more actively with environmental issues than they are with many other policy areas.

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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Perspectives on Environmental Protection in Northeast Asia , August 2001 , pp. 63 - 92
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 

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