Environmental Citizenship

by Dobson, Andrew; Bell, Derek

• ISBN13: 9780262524469
• ISBN10: 0262524465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

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 sustainability. Placing environmental citizenship in the two-thousand-year tradition of citizenship itself, the book considers the nature, possibilities, and limits of citizenship as a way of promoting sustainability. Part I considers the theory and practice of environmental citizenship-what it is and how it can be achieved. Part II examines obstacles and opportunities for environmental citizenship. The book covers such topics as the necessity of an active role for the state, the claims of environmental justice, the democratic potential of online participation in rulemaking, and the role of education in promoting environmental citizenship. The multidisciplinary perspective and the combination of theory and practice make the book ideal for classroom use.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(18)
Andrew Dobson
Derek Bell
Theory and Practice	19	(132)
Resistance Is Fertile: From Environmental to Sustainability Citizenship	21	(28)
John Barry
The Virtues of Environmental Citizenship	49	(26)
James Connelly
Local Landscapes and Global Belonging: Toward a Situated Citizenship of the Environment	75	(26)
Bronislaw Szerszynski
No Sustainability without Justice: A Feminist Critique of Environmental Citizenship	101	(26)
Sherilyn MacGregor
Demonstrating Environmental Citizenship? A Study of Everyday Life among Green Activists	127	(24)
Dave Horton
Obstacles and Opportunities	151	(136)
Overcoming Obstacles to Ecological Citizenship: The Dominant Social Paradigm and Local Environmentalism	153	(32)
Nicholas Nash
Alan Lewis
Justice, Governance, and Sustainability: Perspectives on Environmental Citizenship from North America and Europe	185	(22)
Julian Agyeman
Bob Evans
Virtual Environmental Citizenship: Web-Based Public Participation in Rule Making in the United States	207	(30)
David Schlosberg
Stuart Shulman
Stephen Zavestoski
Encouraging Environmental Citizenship: The Roles and Challenges for Schools	237	(26)
Monica Carlsson
Bjarne Bruun Jensen
Promoting Environmental Citizenship through Learning: Toward a Theory of Change	263	(24)
Stephen Gough
William Scott
List of Contributors	287	(4)
Index	291