Citizenship and the Environment [Paperback]

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.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Towards Post-Cosmopolitanism
2. Three Types of Citizenship
3. Ecological Citizenship
4. Environmental Sustainability in Liberal Societies
5. Citizenship, Education, and the Environment
Conclusion

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