Essays about: "ecological citizenship"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words ecological citizenship.

1. 1. Towards a Broader Ecological Citizenship Repertoire: Exploring Climate Change Engagement, Transformative Agency, and Post-Carbon Transition Imaginaries among Citizens in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Gustav Osberg; [2021]
   Keywords : Ecological Citizenship; Climate Change; Agency; Critical Realism; Sustainability Transitions; Inner Dimensions; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Current post-carbon transition trajectories are primarily based on a belief in technical solutions wherein considerations of the citizens’ role in collective mobilisation and transformation are largely overlooked. To this end, the thesis seeks to understand how citizens can become active agents of change within transition efforts and how their political agency can be empowered accordingly. READ MORE

3. 2. Ecological Empowerment : How infrastructuring can be used to enhance citizen participation for ecological citizenship

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Maskinkonstruktion

   Author : Meike Remiger; [2019]
   Keywords : infrastructuring; ecological citizenship; boundary topics; formation of publics; citizen participation; climate crisis;

   Abstract : This research project explores how the method of infrastructuring can be used for ecological citizenship. A case-study analysis identified where in the infrastructuring process measures for ecological citizenship can be taken. READ MORE

4. 3. Citizenship and Environmental Sustainability - A Survey Study on Swedish Lund University Students

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Giulia De Stefano; [2018]
   Keywords : environmental sustainability; environment; citizenship; students; survey; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Throughout the pursuit of environmental sustainability, the attention placed on governments’ responsibility to reduce environmental degradation has progressively decreased and rather, began focusing on the attitudes and behaviours of individuals. Overtime, this increasing attention placed on the individual highlighted the central role which citizens have in creating and pushing for a sustainable society. READ MORE

5. 4. Citizenship in sustainable transition : a two-sided story about refugees and sustainability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Maja Steensberg; [2017]
   Keywords : ecological citizenship; Denmark; refugees; agriculture; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The world is facing multiple crises, including ecosystem degradation, global climate change and human conflicts. One of the consequence is an unprecedented displacement of 65 million people in total and historic records in the number of asylum seekers in the European Union. READ MORE

6. 5. Promoting the Ecological Swede - A Frame Analysis of Swedish Green Party Policy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Gino Carciola; [2014]
   Keywords : Ecological Citizenship; Swedish Green Party; Frame Analysis; Policy; Environment; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Recent developments within the environmental debate have focused on the individual’s role in mitigating environmental degradation this, together with the advancement of feminist thought and globalization, has lead Andrew Dobson to call for a new conception of citizenship an ‘ecological citizenship’. Although being scarce, practical application and empirical testing has affirmed the existence of such a citizen and the unsurprising link with political affiliation. READ MORE