Environments articles from December 2005

Environments archives from December 2005

Perspectives on ecological citizenship: an introduction.
December 1, 2005... In 1992 Robyn Eckersley argued that it was possible to discern three "major eco-political preoccupations" in green political thought. These were participation, survival, and emancipation; respectively, they corresponded loosely to the previous...

Obligation and ecological citizenship.
December 1, 2005... Abstract The debate on environmental and ecological citizenship provides an important opportunity to explore the relations between ethical and political discourses and how ideas of moral community and political community are articulated....

Environmental law and the paradox of ecological citizenship: the case for environmental libertarianism.(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2005... Abstract This article presents an argument for the application of libertarian principles to environmental law. An environmental libertarian strategy is based on abstract, generally applicable rules and the right of individuals to be free...

Cultivating practices: saving seed as green citizenship?
December 1, 2005... Abstract In this article it is asserted that saving seed is a political practice. This understanding stands in contrast to dominant constructions of seed saving as anachronistic and/or private and therefore not of political concern. While...

Ecological citizenship and ethical responsibility: Arendt, Benjamin and political activism.
December 1, 2005... Abstract Arendt and Benjamin created important, and in many ways complementary, understandings of historical and political action that are intimately associated with the genesis of individual ethical responsibilities. This paper considers...

Environmental extension: promoting ecological citizenship.(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2005... Abstract While acknowledging the importance of the discussion around ecological citizenship with regard to institutions, policies and social norms, in this paper I propose to focus on the individual, considering the capacities that need to...

Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care Sherilyn MacGregor. 2006. UBC Press, Vancouver and Toronto. ISBN 1-07748-1201-X $85.00 (cloth); 0-7748-1202-8 $29.95 (paper). 286 pages. It has long been...

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature John Bellamy Foster. 2000. Monthly Review Press, New York, ISBN 1-58367-012-2, $20 (paper), 1-58367-011-4, $55 (cloth) 310 pages In Marx's Ecology, John Bellamy Foster mounts an exhaustive, at...

Small Change: The Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Small Change: The art of practice and the limits of planning in cities Nabeel Hamdi. 2004. Earthscan, London. 1-84407-005-0. $39.00 (paper) 156 pages, Small Change by Nabeel Hamdi is a short, but provocative, book on development...

The Risks We Run: Mining, Communities and Political Risk Insurance.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... The Risks We Run: Mining, Communities and Political Risk Insurance Roger Moody. 2005. International Books, Utrecht. ISBN 905727 006 4, $30.00 (paper) pp. 322. The risks of a mining development can be great: for people, communities,...