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Environmental Citizenship

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ISBN-10: 0262025906

ISBN-13: 9780262025904

Edition: 2005

Authors: Derek Bell, Andrew P. Dobson

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Promoting environmental citizenship as a path to achieving sustainability -- encouraging people to act according to the public environmental good -- offers an alternative to the mainly market-based incentives used by most governments today. This book considers the theory and practice of environmental citizenship, the obstacles to its realization, and the opportunities it presents for bringing about environmental and social sustainability. The multidisciplinary perspective -- drawing on work in sociology, political theory, philosophy, psychology, and education -- and the variety of approaches (from high theory to ethnographic studies) all converge on the relationship between citizenship and…    
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Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Derek Bell is Lecturer in Political Thought at the University of Newcastle.

Andrew Dobson is Professor of Politics at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Justice and the Environment, Green Political Thought, and Citizenship and the Environment.

Introduction
Theory and Practice
Resistance Is Fertile: From Environmental to Sustainability Citizenship
The Virtues of Environmental Citizenship
Local Landscapes and Global Belonging: Toward a Situated Citizenship of the Environment
No Sustainability without Justice: A Feminist Critique of Environmental Citizenship
Demonstrating Environmental Citizenship? A Study of Everyday Life among Green Activists
Obstacles and Opportunities
Overcoming Obstacles to Ecological Citizenship: The Dominant Social Paradigm and Local Environmentalism
Justice, Governance, and Sustainability: Perspectives on Environmental Citizenship from North America and Europe
Virtual Environmental Citizenship: Web-Based Public Participation in Rule Making in the United States
Encouraging Environmental Citizenship: The Roles and Challenges for Schools
Promoting Environmental Citizenship through Learning: Toward a Theory of Change
List of Contributors
Index