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The neoliberal environmental governance of river conservation, coupled with the organizational modernization imposed and sustained by the European Union's water directives, engenders Other Spaces of feminist ecological alignment. The riparian landscapes of urban cities are manifestations of political and ideological rationalities operating under the constraints of capitalist markets, and are saturated by the contradictions of neoliberal environmental science. Neoliberal rationalities configur

Offers an ecofeminist consideration of knowledge, nature, & the social that endorses a critical realist understanding based on the social constructedness of languages & disciplines. Like dialectics, this approach depends on an assumption of overdetermination & flows constantly between the abstract & concrete. Such knowledge is identified as tacit when recognition of internally linked forces is not verbally articulated. Lay knowledge, often mistaken for tacit knowledge, is occasionally deemed to stay on the concrete level. However, it is here argued from an ecofeminist perspective that political interests limit the further development of lay knowledge into discourse. K. Coddon

This essay aims to establish that feminism & ecologism, when linked have a potential that exceeds the sum of its parts. Feminism & ecologism as bodies of thought meet most frequently in the field of ecofeminism. This is not the most exciting or profitable terrain on which they can address each other. Rather, feminism & ecologism can meet on two coexisting levels. The first concerns matters of content -- specifically their shared concern with certain issues & concepts. The second is their respective natures: both have emancipatory & utopian potential. 34 References. Adapted from the source document.

In the context of climate change and rising risk of environmental crisis caused by pollution and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, the concept of environmental security, primarily defined as the resilience of countries and individuals to the challenges of environmental degradation, is rapidly obtaining the interest of general public and experts from various scientific disciplines. However, it seems that the gender aspect of security in general, and particularly of environmental security has not been given the amount of attention it deserves until recently. Thanks to the ecofeminist movement, based upon the idea that women are more closely related to nature than men and more vulnerable and susceptible to the negative impacts of environmental degradation (especially those emerging as the consequences of pollution and climate change), the role of women in the improvement of environmental security through participation in decision-making processes in legislation and public policy making is finally being recognised. The aim of this paper is to analyse the modern concept of environmental security as well as the evolution and contemporary discourses within ecofeminist movements and to explain the link between them, i.e., the contribution of ecofeminism to the shift in the approach to environmental security in the sense of taking into consideration the rights and interests of women as more common victims of negative environmental impacts as well as their potentials as relevant stake holders in this field.