Women's Role in Village-Based Renewable Energy Development: Assessing the Challenges and Supports

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Renewable Energy; Women Participation; Village Sustainable Development

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the challenges and supports for women’s role strengthening in village-based renewable energy development. The discussion is important because in practice women’s role in energy policy has been marginalized. Meanwhile, based on our research, women in village level have big potential to be main actors in renewable energy development, despite their supporting/secondary position in family’s economy. This paper is based on qualitative research in Rembang regency, Central Java, in the case of biogas development, to identify challenges and supports for further women’s involvement in renewable energy development in village level. Based on our research findings, women have long been important part of cattle production and agriculture in village community, while at the same time leading in household management. Therefore, women are knowledgeable in terms of connecting “cage”, “rice field”, and household matters, something which men are not always aware of. However, village and regency’s political structure in village level, has been disabled the further access and participation of women, so that only limited benefit can be acquired. Meanwhile, the regency is known to have big potential for being biogas centre in the eastern part of Central Java. In the mid of local energy pressure, the local government, including village government, needs to be responsive towards local potentials, to avoid crises in the future, and involve women as sparing partners in the mission.

Copyright

© 2023 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Laila Kholid Alfirdaus
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/28
TI  - Women's Role in Village-Based Renewable Energy Development: Assessing the Challenges and Supports
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Environment, Agriculture and Tourism (ICOSEAT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 886
EP  - 890
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_117
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_117
ID  - Alfirdaus2022
ER  -