Environment and Citizenship Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement

by Smith, Mark J.; Pangsapa, Piya

• ISBN13: 9781842779033
• ISBN10: 1842779036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

This timely book outlines the debates on environmental and ecological citizenship that have emerged out of the concern with environmental justice since the 1990s. The book demonstrates how awareness of environmental hazards, injustices and new forms of risk is only effective when it generates strategies for political change. It examines how environmental movements have become increasingly involved in governance processes at the national, regional and intergovernmental levels, in contexts such as the EU, UN and LA21 initiatives.

Author Biography

Mark J. Smith, Politics & International Studies, Open University, researches environmental responsibility, transnational corporations, civic engagement and the role of ethics in politics and the environment. Piya Pangsapa, Women's Studies, University at Buffalo, researches gender, work and civic engagement in Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

Introduction * From environmental justice to environmental citizenship * Citizenship, entitlements and obligations *  Obligation and ecological/environmental citizenship * Environmental governance and citizenship in a global context * Corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability * Borders, territories and liquid politics - case studies on Niagara, Gibraltar and Thailand * Insiders and outsiders in environmental mobilizations in Southeast Asia - citizenship generation, NGO campaigns and community-based research * Cleaner, safer but not always greener - environmental advocacy and responsibility in urban, peri-urban and rural renewal * Conclusion * living and changing by example - the new vocabulary of ecological citizenship
 

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