Cao, Benito (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Environment and Citizenship - Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts Cao, Benito (University of Adelaide, Australia) 1.º edición

The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship ?one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating and multidimensional overview of the many ways in which concern for the environment ?driven primarily by the preoccupation with sustainability? is reshaping our understanding of citizenship.

The content is structured in three parts. Part I introduces the reader to the concept and theories of citizenship and explores the impact that environmental concerns is having on contemporary formulations of citizenship, both traditional ones (e.g. national, liberal and republican) and emerging ones (e.g. ecological, ecofeminist and cosmopolitan). Part II explores the intersection between citizenship and the environment through a series of case studies, drawn from a wide range of countries, broadly categorised as belonging to the Global North (e.g. the USA, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Australia and Japan) and the Global South (e.g. India, China, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya and South Africa). Part III explores representations of environmental citizenship in a diversity of media texts (e.g. iconic pictures, films and documentaries) as well as different ecological pedagogies used to promote notions of environmental citizenship (e.g. conservation parks, community gardens and ecological footprints). The text concludes with a general reflection on what environmental citizenship offers to and demands from the citizens of the 21st century.

The book contains a variety of illustrations, boxed case-studies, suggestions for further reading and links to internet resources. This original and engaging text is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental politics, sustainability studies and development studies, as well as for environmental activists, policy practitioners and environmental educators. More broadly, this book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned with issues of sustainability, social justice and citizenship in the 21st century.