Group Morality within the Voluntary and Community Sector and Implications for Ecological Citizenship

2014 ◽  
pp. 19-34
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Community Sector

Lecturers’ perspectives on how introductory economic courses address sustainability

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L. Green
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Ecological Literacy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American University ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Economics Courses ◽  
Introductory Economics

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore sustainability commitments’ potential implications for the curriculum of introductory economics courses. Universities have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting students’ environmental literacy and ecological citizenship, thereby creating pressure to integrate sustainability across the curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach involving qualitative research methods and the three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada, was used. As one component of a larger study, 11 of the 19 economists who delivered the course over the study period were interviewed. The theoretical framework was informed by ecological economics scholarship on how mainstream economic thought represents environment-economy linkages. Findings – Findings suggest that universities’ sustainability commitments have not influenced principles of economics curriculum. Sustainability is not salient to lecturers; prospects that mainstream economics departments will integrate sustainability into curriculum in a timely manner without external pressure appear limited. Practical implications – While institutions often enthusiastically report on courses that contribute to students’ ecological literacy, identifying curriculum that may confound student understanding of sustainability receives less emphasis. Introductory economics courses appear to merit scrutiny from this perspective. Originality/value – About 40 per cent of North American university students take an introductory economics course, relatively few take more advanced economics courses. This course, thus, teaches many students economic theory and the economics profession’s approach to evaluating public policy, and has potential to contribute to knowledge of sustainability. Few studies examine how undergraduate economics curriculum addresses sustainability.

scholarly journals Ecological Citizenship and Social Representation of Water

SAGE Open ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824401141789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Biagi ◽  
Mariano Ferro
Keyword(s):  
Social Representation ◽  
Ecological Citizenship

scholarly journals What is Safe? Cultural Citizenship, Visual Culture and Risk

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Commercial Culture ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
Contemporary Media

Questions of cultural citizenship and risk have become central to contemporary sociological debates. This paper seeks to relate these concerns to a discussion of ecological citizenship and questions of visual and commercial culture. In the first section, I argue that ecological citizenship needs to avoid a moralistic rejection of the pleasures of contemporary visual and consumer culture. Such a possibility I argue has become evident in recent debates on the risk society. However, I argue despite Beck's realisation that questions of risk become defined through contemporary media his analysis remains overly distant from more everyday understandings. In order to address this question, I seek to demonstrate how an interpretative understanding of visual culture (in this case the 1995 film Safe) might help us develop more complex understandings of the competing cultures of risk and citizenship.

scholarly journals Membangun Sense Of Belonging Masyarakat Melalui Pemanenan Air Hujan Dalam Telaah Ecology Citizenship

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Dewi Gunawati
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Ecological Citizenship

<p>Tulisan ini beranjak dari pencermatan destruksi lingkungan yang berbentuk kekeringan, banjir, penurunan muka air tanah yang terus mengalami peningkatan, kualitas penurunan air tanah,  kebutuhan air yang meningkat, kebakaran hutan yang terus berlangsung. Air merupakan salah satu sumber daya alam yang sangat dibutuhkan seluruh makluk hidup. Krisis air memaksa manusia untuk meredefinisi ulang implementasi konsep keadilan antar generasi dalam pemanfaatan sumber daya alam. Krisis air memaksa munculnya sebuah gerakan masyarakat secara ” pentahelijk” untuk menemukan alternatif sumber air bagi kebutuhan hidup. Gerakan itu disebut dengan Gerakan Memanen  Hujan yang sudah eksis dan berkembang diberbagai daerah di Indonesia. Tujuan tulisan : Membangun sense of belonging masyarakat melalui pemanenan air hujan  dalam telaah ecologi citizenship. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan  adalah penelusuran data kepustakaan , yang didukung dengan dokumentasi, wawancara dan observasi. Sumber data adalah Pendiri dan pengurus Komunitas Pemanenan Air Hujan ”Banyu Bening” di Sleman. Pembahasan : Gerakan memanen air hujan  merupakan  kegiatan untuk menampung  air hujan, memanfaatakan secara maksimal,meresapkan kedalam tanah dan mengalirkannya kembali. Kegiatan ini merupakan salah satu alternatif dalam mitigasi lingkungan, dalam telaah  <em>Ecological Citizenship diistilahkan dengan “</em>memikirkan kewarganegaraan dengan cara-cara agak baru” yang dikaitkan dengan hak dan kewajiban warga negara dalam mencapai lingkungan yang bersih dan sehat.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Kata kunci: </strong> rekonstruksi, air hujan, ecologi.</p>

scholarly journals Políticas Ambientais: uma possibilidade de currículo

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Abalos Junior
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Ecological Citizenship ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Approach ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Belo Monte

Este relato é fruto de reflexões que tive na graduação em Ciências Sociais e no Mestrado Acadêmico em Antropologia Social (PPGAS/UFRGS) nos quais me deparei inúmeras vezes com a reflexão da questão das políticas que envolvem a temática ambiental. Entendendo estas experiências como significativas para o desenvolvimento dos estudos ambientais dentro de perspectivas antropológicas, faço uma síntese sobre os principais conceitos a serem tratados em propostas como a de um currículo de estudo. Entre estes conceitos se inserem o de responsabilidade social e ambiental entrando no debate da conferência da ONU sobre “o futuro que queremos”. Riscos ambientais e contaminação também são categorias de importante discursão num programa desse tipo. O debate sobre políticas e democracia traz a tona a análise de políticas ambientais como a de Belo Monte. A contextualização de novos tipos de cidadania, como a ecológica, desperta atenção para novos conceitos como o de sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável. Esse modelo de trânsitos na política instiga novos debates como o de Conflitos e Justiça Ambientais. Assim como a política em transito adentra a discursão sobre o que são populações tradicionais. A Educação Ambiental aparece nesse sentido como uma dimensão político-pedagógica importante para o desenvolvimento de novos sujeitos capazes de pensar a “política do eu” e as “políticas da natureza”. Por fim, faço uma breve reflexão sobre a produção de uma antropologia vitalista em Tim Ingold relacionando com o rompimento de uma disciplinaridade, empreitada importante ao dialogarmos sobre políticas ambientais.Palavras-Chaves: Ambientalismo. Natureza. Currículo.Environmental Policies : A chance of curriculumAbstract This report is the result of reflections from the period of my undergraduated studies on Social Sciences to masters on Social Anthropology (PPGAS/UFRGS) during which I deal many times with the issue about policies that involve environmental issues. Understanding these experiences as significant for the development of environmental studies within anthropological perspectives, I make a synthesis of the main concepts would be treated in proposals such as a study curriculum. These concepts include the social and environmental responsibility add in the UN conference debate about "the future we want". Environmental risks and contamination are also important categories to discussion in this kind of program. Debate on policies and democracy brings out the analysis of environmental policies such as Belo Monte. Contextualization of new types of citizenship, such as ecological citizenship, arouses attention to new concepts such as sustainability and sustainable development. This model of transits in politics instigates new debates as Conflicts and Environmental Justice. Likewise, the policies in transit enter the discussion about what are traditional populations. In this sense, environmental education appears as an important political and pedagogical dimension to the development of new subjects able to think the “policy of self” and the "policy of nature”. Finally, I make a brief reflection on the production of a vitalist anthropology at Tim Ingold connected to a break of a disciplinary, important approach to dialogue on environmental policies.Keywords: Environmentalism. Nature. Curriculum. 

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