The convergence of interest in environment, gender,and development has emerged under conditions of rapid restructuring of econmies, ecologies, cultures, and politics from global to local levels. The analytical framework presented in this essay brings together a feminist perspective to political ecology, seeking to understand and interpret local experience in the context of gobal processes of environmental and ecnomic change. This essay addresses the intersection of gender and environment through lens of three critical themes:gendered science, gendered environmental rights and responsibilities, gendered organizations and environmental politics.