Environment and Citizenship

Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement

AvMark J. Smith,Doctor Piya Pangsapa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Citizenship and the environment are hotly debated, as climate change places more responsibility on individuals and institutions in shaping policy. Using new evidence and cases from across the globe, Environment and Citizenship explores the new vocabulary of ecological citizenship and examines how successful environmental policy-making depends on the responsible actions of citizens and civil society organizations as much as on governments and international treaties. This accessible and thought-provoking book:- provides a comprehensive and timely guide to the debates on environmental and ecological citizenship, expertly combining examples of practice with theory;- examines how environmental movements have become increasingly involved in governance processes at the local, national, regional and intergovernmental levels;- explores the increasing importance of corporations and transnational networks through examples of stakeholding processes and participatory research in environmental decision-making;- calls on researchers, policy-makers and activists to face a new challenge: how to effectively link environmental justice with social justice.Breaking new ground, Smith and Pangsapa address how environmental responsibility operates through politics, ethics, culture and the everyday experiences of ctivists, as well as how awareness of environmental and social injustice only leads to responsible actions and strategic change through civic engagement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-15
Mått:145 x 222 x 22 mm
Vikt:565 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781842779026

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Dr. Mark J. Smith is author or editor of numerous books including Ecologism: Towards Ecological Citizenship (1998), Social Science in Question (1998), Thinking through the Environment (1999), Rethinking State Theory (2000) and articles on environment, politics and corporate responsibility. Dr. Piya Pangsapa is the author of Textures of Struggle (2007) as well as articles on migration, women's rights and labour standards, ethnographic research methods and cultural inclusivity in American universities.

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'Clearly written, cleverly argued and comprehensively supported by evidence, Environment and Citizenship should be on everybody's reading list. A major contribution to the study of responsibility, justice and the environment.' Bryan S. Turner, Co-editor of Citizenship Studies 'Truly essential reading. Written at a time when citizenship, justice and virtue ethics have made their way - at last - on to the top table of environmental and social thinking, Smith and Pangsapa have woven them all into a magisterial manifesto for sustainability, justice and civic engagement. Buttressed by case studies from around the world, leavened with recommendations for institutional reform, and with its sights set on the urban as much as the rural context, the book in your hands is an agenda-setting contribution to environmental and social thought and action.' Andy Dobson, Keele University

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Environment, obligation and citizenshipPart I: Theory informed by practice1. From environmental justice to environmental citizenship2. Citizens, citizenship and citizenization3. Rethinking environment and citizenshipPart II: Practice informed by theory4. Environmental governance, social movements and citizenship in a global context5. Corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability6. Environmental borderlands7. Insiders and outsiders in environmental mobilizations in Southeast Asia8. The new vocabulary of ecological citizenshipBibliographyIndex