Bina Agarwal, has written a great deal about gender and land rights in Third World countries and according to her, "Hence, insofar as there is a gender and class-based division of labor and distribution of property and power, gender and class structure people's interactions with nature and so structure the effects of environmental change on people and their responses to it."
Academic Bina Agarwal has extensively researched gender and land rights in developing countries. She asserts that "As long as there is a division between genders and classes, both in terms of labor and property distribution, these social structures significantly influence how individuals interact with the environment and respond to environmental changes."