This book provides critical insight into governmental policies that relate to gender, environment and natural resources management in different regions and places in Africa and Asia. It contributes to the gender and environmental discourse, which has been uppermost in the work of the contributors. The chapters highlight environmental changes from gender perspectives, complexities and critical re-thinking on eco-feminism and gender, climate change, gender relations and the conservation of the environment, access to resources and biomass energy and environmental management. A remarkable feature of the book is that it provides both theoretical dimensions and empirical research on the issues. It allows non-experts to assess and understand the relation between the state and the environment and give users information they need to understand gender and environmental issues from across different continents and cultures.