1st Edition

Citizenship, Environment, Economy

Edited By A. Dobson, A. Valencia Copyright 2006
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in meeting the challenge. In advanced industrial countries such as ours, which operate in the political framework of liberal capitalism, what relevance can we place on 'environmental citizenship'?

    This book looks at the obstacles and opportunities which exist within this context and examines the possibility of ethical investment, the social economy and considers whether there is space in the capitalist economy for environmental citizens to 'do the right thing?'

    This book is a special issue of the leading journal Environmental Politics.

    Introduction, Andrew Dobson and Angel Valencia Saiz

    PART ONE: ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP: TALKING IT OVER

    1. Globalisation, Cosmopolitanism and ecological citizenship, Angel Valencia Saiz

    2. Liberal Environmental Citizenship, Derek R. Bell

    3. Environmental Citizenship as Reasonable Citizenship, Simon Hailwood

    4. Researching Environmental Citizenship and its Publics, Emilio Luque

    5. Negotiation as the Driving Force of Environmental Citizenship, Mojca Drevensek

    PART TWO: THE ECONOMY

    6. Social Citizenship and the Environment, Joaquin Valdivielso

    7. Ecological Citizenship and Ethical Investment, Neil Carter and Meg Huby

    8. Green Citizenship and the Social Economy, Graham Smith

    9. Shopping for Sustainability; Can Sustainable Consumption Promote Ecological Citizenship, Gilll Seyfang

    Biography

    Andrew Dobson is Professor of Politics at the Open University, UK.,
    Ángel Valencia Sáiz is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Malaga, Spain.