Growing Green: Women’s Representation Improves Local Environmental Outcomes

• In Event: Gendered Nature: Environmental Politics

Brief Overview

Do women enhance local environmental outcomes? Using a satellite imagery-based land cover measure, we find that democracies with higher levels of female municipal representation see improved environmental outcomes in terms of green space coverage.

Authors

• Dihan Shi, Washington University in St Louis

• Zeynep Ceren Topac, Washington University in St Louis