Citizenship and the Environment

by Dobson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780199258437
• ISBN10: 0199258430
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first book-length treatment of the relationship between citizenship and the environment. Andrew Dobson argues that ecological citizenship cannot be fully articulated in terms of the two great traditions of citizenship - liberal and civic republican - with which we have been bequeathed. He develops an original theory of citizenship, which he calls 'post-cosmopolitan', and argues that ecological citizenship is an example and an inflection of it. Ecological citizenship focuses on duties as well as rights, and these duties are owed non-reciprocally, by those individuals and communities who occupy unsustainable amounts of ecological space, to those who occupy too little.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
1 Towards Post-cosmopolitanism	9	(24)
2 Three Types of Citizenship	33	(50)
3 Ecological Citizenship	83	(58)
4 Environmental Sustainability in Liberal Societies	141	(33)
5 Citizenship, Education, and the Environment	174	(34)
Conclusion	208	(4)
References	212	(11)
Index	223