the ggeo is not simply a matter of add women to the environment and stir instead it makes use of genderbased assessment frameworks along with the traditional environmental assessment approach of the driverspressuresstatelmpactsresponses dpsir methodology thus requiring new questions and new methods using a genderspecific approach to examine these complex linkages which may be referred to as the genderandenvironment nexus is therefore an appropriate way to investigate the dynamic relationships between environmental change and gender equality as well as between impacts on sustainablity and the realization of womens rights and empowerment leach seager the push for gender equality is shaping environmental understanding but notions of gender equality are also shaped by environmental imperatives including equal access to and sharing of the benefits of the use and protection of ecosystems and natural resources un mea