Citizenship and the Environment

by Andrew Dobson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199258444
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/29/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Open University

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Towards Post-Cosmopolitanism2. Three Types of Citizenship3. Ecological Citizenship4. Environmental Sustainability in Liberal Societies5. Citizenship, Education, and the EnvironmentConclusion

Editorial Reviews

"Dobson's treatment of the education of citizens is illuminating. ... His way of linking citizenship education with ecological responsibility is salutary, as is his insistence that ecological education have moral, not merely technical, content."—Polity

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