Sustainability Citizenship in Cities

This edited collection is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the relation between citizenship and environmental sustainability. The authors approach sustainability citizenship as a work-in-progress, but the focus on its practical articulations - emphasising collective responsibilities, participatory democracy and 'being' rather than 'having' - provides conceptual coherence to the volume. - Benito Cao, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia and author of Environment and Citizenship (2015) Achieving voluntary behaviour change to sustainable forms of living and consumption practices represents one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. The model of sustainability citizenship advanced in this book represents a critical and under-researched pathway to this transformation - beyond that more commonly focused on individual attitudes and behaviours. - Peter W. Newton, Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia This timely, comprehensive volume firmly ties the epic statement 'global environmental crisis' to human experience in the urban age. In stories charged as much with hope as danger, its contributors make clear that the serious species threat posed by the ecological crisis is just as much an opportunity for myriad forms of sustainability citizenship to evolve and flourish. - Brendan Gleeson, Director at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia