Environmental Citizenship in the Indian Ocean Region

Buch | Hardcover

122 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-75777-9 (ISBN)

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The scale and severity of our environmental challenges are quickly becoming apparent. The Indian Ocean region features many places particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental degradation and climate change, which will have profound social, economic, and cultural impacts. The increasing preoccupation with the state of the environment is also having significant political effects, including on the concept and content of citizenship. The language of citizenship has permeated environmental discourse and, conversely, environmental issues are often articulated in the language of citizenship.

This book explores environmental citizenship and civil society responses to environmental challenges in the Indian Ocean region. The articles provide practical insights to improve resilience and adaptation, as well as conceptual insights into the nature of environmental citizenship discourse and practice across this vast region, from Mauritius to Malaysia. The volume showcases the complex field of environmental citizenship through a wide range of approaches, and alongside closely related concepts, such as environmental governance, environmental education, environmental justice, and corporate social responsibility. In essence, the book provides a rich, diverse and multidimensional picture of environmental citizenship in the Indian Ocean region.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.

Benito Cao is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Adelaide. He has a vast teaching experience and has received numerous teaching awards. He has published in the fields of identity politics, critical thinking, citizenship studies and environmental politics, and is the author of Environment and Citizenship (Routledge 2015).

Introduction: Environmental citizenship in the Indian Ocean region

Benito Cao

1. Climate change adaptation: the need for an Indian Ocean regional metamorphosis

Victor R. Savage and Lin Qi Feng

2. Indian Ocean fisheries regulation: exploring participatory approaches to support small-scale fisheries in six States

Erika Techera

3. Ecosocial work through corporate social responsibility: the case of company engagement with civil society in coastal communities in Mauritius

Brita Backlund Rambaree

4. Crisis, constitutionalism and the geographies of belonging: Indian eco-politics in the Anthropocene

Ramya K. Tella

5. Contradictions of citizenship and environmental politics in the Arabian littoral

Ian R. Simpson

6. Environmental citizenship for inclusive sustainable development: the case of Kelab Alami in Mukim Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia

Serina Rahman

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-367-75777-X / 036775777X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-75777-9 / 9780367757779
Zustand	Neuware