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**University of Bath
Centre for Research in Education and the Environment
Learning & Sustainable Development Research Seminars
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*TITLE Environmental Citizenship: towards sustainable development
SPEAKER Professor Andrew Dobson Open University
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Broadly, there are two kinds of reasons why people might move to more
sustainable forms of living – because of incentives and disincentives
associated with doing or not doing so, or because they regard it as
right thing to do. The government’s sustainability strategy is based
almost entirely on the former. From one point of view the government’s
logic is impeccable. In the context of domestic waste, for example,
people will want to avoid paying any ‘rubbish tax’ and so will reduce
the amount of waste they throw away. But people uncommitted to the idea
behind the scheme might take the line of least resistance in a way
entirely consistent with the model of behaviour on which the scheme
depends, but entirely at odds with its desired outcomes - by dumping
their waste elsewhere.
Little thought is generally given to the ‘long haul’ approach whereby
more deep-seated commitments to sustainable living are encouraged,
developed and enabled. This is where environmental citizenship comes in.
Andrew Dobson will offer an account of environmental citizenship and how
it might contribute to achieving sustainable development. He will also
comment on the place of the environment in the Citizenship strand of the
National Curriculum as a potential means of promoting environmental
citizenship.
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*1st February 2005 / 1630 to 1815 /Department of Education /1WN 3.8/
*All welcome.
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