- Advances in Urban Sustainability: Sustainability Citizenship and Cities : Theory and Practice (2016, Hardcover) EPUB read ebook
9781138933620 1138933627 Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth. Such citizens not only engage in sustainable household practices but respect the importance of awareness raising, discussion and debates on sustainable policies for the common good and maintenance of Earth s ecosystems." Sustainability Citizenship in Cities "seeks to explain how sustainability citizenship can manifest in urban built environments as both responsibilities and rights. Contributors elaborate on the concept of urban sustainability citizenship as a participatory work-in-progress with the aim of setting its practice firmly on the agenda. This collection will prompt practitioners and researchers to rethink contemporary mobilisations of urban citizens challenged by various environmental crises, such as climate change, in various socio-economic settings. This book is a valuable resource for students, academics and professionals working in various disciplines and across a range of interdisciplinary fields, such as: urban environment and planning, citizenship as practice, environmental sociology, contemporary politics and governance, environmental philosophy, media and communications, and human geography.", We define sustainability citizenship in a simple and straightforward way to show its practical application as both a goal and a result of political, economic and built environmental initiatives by states and communities that incorporate structural and cultural socio-environmental transformation. Our emphasis is not on legal, prescriptive, ideal and philosophical rights and duties based discourses as many of the contributions in this field are but rather on questions surrounding practical and collective transformation. As such the contributions focus on and debate issues such as: process and policy, circumstance and context, activity and change enablers. Therefore we take a much more user-friendly approach to urban sustainability citizenship type analyses for social science and humanities students in areas such as: governance, design, planning, development, environmental, sustainability, sociology, politics, policy, and urban economics. Equally our practical approach makes our book a handy briefing manual on socio-economic contexts for technical and scientific students sustainability inventors, innovators and process designers."
9781138933620 1138933627 Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth. Such citizens not only engage in sustainable household practices but respect the importance of awareness raising, discussion and debates on sustainable policies for the common good and maintenance of Earth s ecosystems." Sustainability Citizenship in Cities "seeks to explain how sustainability citizenship can manifest in urban built environments as both responsibilities and rights. Contributors elaborate on the concept of urban sustainability citizenship as a participatory work-in-progress with the aim of setting its practice firmly on the agenda. This collection will prompt practitioners and researchers to rethink contemporary mobilisations of urban citizens challenged by various environmental crises, such as climate change, in various socio-economic settings. This book is a valuable resource for students, academics and professionals working in various disciplines and across a range of interdisciplinary fields, such as: urban environment and planning, citizenship as practice, environmental sociology, contemporary politics and governance, environmental philosophy, media and communications, and human geography.", We define sustainability citizenship in a simple and straightforward way to show its practical application as both a goal and a result of political, economic and built environmental initiatives by states and communities that incorporate structural and cultural socio-environmental transformation. Our emphasis is not on legal, prescriptive, ideal and philosophical rights and duties based discourses as many of the contributions in this field are but rather on questions surrounding practical and collective transformation. As such the contributions focus on and debate issues such as: process and policy, circumstance and context, activity and change enablers. Therefore we take a much more user-friendly approach to urban sustainability citizenship type analyses for social science and humanities students in areas such as: governance, design, planning, development, environmental, sustainability, sociology, politics, policy, and urban economics. Equally our practical approach makes our book a handy briefing manual on socio-economic contexts for technical and scientific students sustainability inventors, innovators and process designers."