
Environment and Citizenship
Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement
Zed Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 15. June 2008
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-84277-902-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
- 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.
Reviews / Votes
'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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84277-902-6 (9781842779026)
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Mark J. Smith | Doctor Piya Pangsapa
Environment and Citizenship
Integrating Justice, Responsibility and Civic Engagement
E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
Zed Books Ltd
€35.49
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Environment, obligation and citizenship
Part I: Theory informed by practice
1. From environmental justice to environmental citizenship
2. Citizens, citizenship and citizenization
3. Rethinking environment and citizenship
Part II: Practice informed by theory
4. Environmental governance, social movements and citizenship in a global context
5. Corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability
6. Environmental borderlands
7. Insiders and outsiders in environmental mobilizations in Southeast Asia
8. The new vocabulary of ecological citizenship
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Environment, obligation and citizenship
Part I: Theory informed by practice
1. From environmental justice to environmental citizenship
2. Citizens, citizenship and citizenization
3. Rethinking environment and citizenship
Part II: Practice informed by theory
4. Environmental governance, social movements and citizenship in a global context
5. Corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability
6. Environmental borderlands
7. Insiders and outsiders in environmental mobilizations in Southeast Asia
8. The new vocabulary of ecological citizenship
Bibliography
Index