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Andrew Dobson is Professor of Politics at Keele University. He is the author of Green Political Thought (4th edition, 2006), and of Citizenship and the Environment (OUP 2003), among other edited books, monographs, and papers.
He is Principal Investigator on a 2011-2013 funded project called 'Reducing Energy Consumption Through Community Knowledge Networks', and has just completed a 2-year funded seminar series on Biosecurity. A book based on the series and co-edited with Kezia Barker and Sarah Taylor, Biosecurity: the socio-politics of invasive species and infectious diseases, will be published with Routledge/Earthscan in 2013.
He is also a Leverhulme Research Fellow, writing a book on Listening for Democracy, which is due for publication by Oxford University Press in 2014. He is a member of the England and Wales Green Party and has stood in Parliamentary and local elections. He co-wrote the Green Party Manifesto in 2010, and is a founder member of the thinktank Green House.
Selected Publications
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2013. Big Society, Little Justice? Community renewable energy and the politics of localism. Local Environment. doi>
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2013. Community knowledge networks: an action-orientated approach to energy research. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability, 506-520. doi>
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2013. A cicadania e o desafio ecoloxico. In O(s) sentido(s) da(s) cultura(s). Maiz R (Ed.). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Gallega.
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2013. Biosecurity The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases.
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2013. Political Theory in a Closed World: Reflections on William Ophuls, liberalism and Abundance. Environmental Values, vol. 22(2), 241-260. doi>
Full Publications List show
Books
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2013. Biosecurity The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases.
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2007. Green Political Thought. (4th ed.). Routledge, London.
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2003. Citizenship and the Environment. Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
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2013. Big Society, Little Justice? Community renewable energy and the politics of localism. Local Environment. doi>
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2013. Community knowledge networks: an action-orientated approach to energy research. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability, 506-520. doi>
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2013. Political Theory in a Closed World: Reflections on William Ophuls, liberalism and Abundance. Environmental Values, vol. 22(2), 241-260. doi>
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2011. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES, vol. 20(3), 439-441. link>
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2010. Sustainability as competitive advantage in higher education in the UK. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, vol. 9(4), 330-348. doi>
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2010. The politics of climate change. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 19(2), 310-312. link>
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2009. All I left behind; The mainstreaming of ecologism. Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 8, 319-328.
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2006. Thick Cosmopolitanism. Political Studies, vol. 54(1), 165-184. doi>
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2005. The limits to growth: the 30-year update. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 14(5), 709-710. link>
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2005. The new accountability: Environmental responsibility across borders. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 14(5), 727-728. link>
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2005. Globalisation, Cosmopolitanism and the Environment. International Relations, vol. 19(3), 259-273. doi>
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2005. New Labour and the Environment. Citizenship, vol. 3(2), 40-42.
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2004. Genetic engineering: Pigoons and ChickieNobs on the other side of 'enough'. Environmental Politics, vol. 13(3), 642-649. doi>
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2003. Changing places? Humans and other animals. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 12(3), 150-154. link>
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2003. Democracy and global warming. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 12(2), 159-160. link>
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2003. Preservation vs the people? Nature, humanity and political philosophy. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 12(4), 144-145. link>
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2003. The environmentalism of the poor. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 12(4), 155-157. link>
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2002. Democracy and the claims of nature: Critical perspectives for a new century. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 11(4), 151. link>
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2002. Justice, posterity and the environment. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 11(1), 204-205. link>
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2002. The skeptical environmentalist: Measuring the real state of the world. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, vol. 11(2), 194-196. link>
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2001. Living with nature: Environmental politics as cultural discourse. POLITICAL STUDIES, vol. 49(2), 334-336. link>
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1997. Genetic engineering and environmental ethics. Camb Q Healthc Ethics, vol. 6(2), 205-221. link>
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1994. ECOLOGISM AND THE RELEGITIMATION OF SOCIALISM. RADICAL PHILOSOPHY, 13-19. link>
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Cosmopolitismo Spesso. Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, vol. 12, 85-107.
Chapters
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2013. A cicadania e o desafio ecoloxico. In O(s) sentido(s) da(s) cultura(s). Maiz R (Ed.). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Gallega.
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2012. Ecological Citizenship Revisited. In Handbook Of Global Environmental Politics. (2nd ed.). Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
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2006. Citizenship. In Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge. Eckersley R (Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2006. Citizenship. In Political theory and the ecological challenge. Dobson A and Eckersley R (Eds.). Cambridge Univ Pr.
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2006. Do we need (to protect) nature?. In The politics of protection: sites of insecurity and the political agency. Huysmans J and Prokhovnik R (Eds.). London: Routledge.
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2004. Economic Behaviour: value and values. In Key issues in sustainable development and learning. Scott W and Gough S (Eds.). London: Routledge Farmer.
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2004. Globalisation and the environment. In Global Social Problems. George V and Page R (Eds.). Cambridge, Policy Press.
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2004. Inclusio social, sostenibilitat ambiental i educacio ciutadana. In Les dimensions socials de la crisi ecologica. Valdivielso J (Ed.). Palma: Edicions.
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2004. Social inclusion, environmental sustainability and citizenship education. In Europe, Globalization and sustainable development. Barry J, Baxter B, Dunphy R (Eds.). London: Routledge.
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2003. Janus-faced utopianism: The politics of ecology. In Explorations in environmental political theory: thinking about what we value. Kassiola J (Ed.). New York and London: ME Sharp.
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2003. Social inclusion, environmental sustainability and citizenship. In Learning to Last: skills, sustainability and strategy. Cohen J, James S, Blewitt J (Eds.). London: LSDA.
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2003. Social justice and environmental sustainability: Ne'er the twain shall meet?. In Just sustainabilities: development in an unequal world. Agyeman J, Bullard R, Evans B (Eds.). London: Earthscan.
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2003. States, citizens, and the environment. In States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects. Skinner Q and Strath B (Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
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2002. Cambios en la Ciudadania. In Construccion de europa, democracia y globalizacion. Aguila RD (Ed.). (vol. 2). Santiago de Compostela.
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2002. El proyecto de una sociedad sostenible en el siglo XXI: el ecologismo politico. In Las idea politicas en el siglo XXI. Mellon JA (Ed.). Ariel: Barcelona.
Other
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2004. Ecological citizenship and global justice: Two paths converging?. FUTURE AS FAIRNESS: ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP (vol. 10, pp. 1-15). link>
Andrew Dobson can supervise in most areas of environmental politics and political theory, with particular expertise in the fields of political ideologies, and theories of justice, democracy and citizenship.

