Bibliographic record
Abstract
Review: Environmental Citizenship Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell (Eds.) Reviewed by Christina Behme Dalhousie University, Canada Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell's. (Eds.). Environmental Citizenship . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-262-52446-5 (paperback original); US$24.00. Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell combine work of specialists in sociology, political theory, philosophy, psychology, and education to provide a multidisciplinary perspective of theory and practice of environmental citizenship. The book consists of a thorough introduction and ten thematically grouped chapters: chapters in p art I illuminate what environmental is and how it can be achieved; chapters in part II examine existing obstacles and opportunities for environmental citizenship. John Barry introduces a concept of sustainability citizenship, which goes beyond purely environmental sphere and includes social and economic practices. He holds that sustainability has to be learned and that state needs to play active role, encouraging citizens to fulfill their obligations to secure common good and their own interest . Barry doubts that requires suppression of private interests in favor of public ones. Instead, he suggests: the private sphere can partake of ecological virtue and be a site for practicing citizenship (p.37). Drawing on work of philosophers from Aristotle (350 BC/1976) to Rawls (1973), James Connelly explores concept of virtue, defining it as: character trait a human being needs to realize environmental ends (p.51). Environmental does not require establishing new virtues but utilizes existing virtues to bring about a new, sustainable form of society. That means, an eco-virtue is internally motivating ecological thoughtfulness leading to action (p.66). Further, Connelly explores a legislative framework within which virtues can be exercised and stresses that environmental requires active state. Taking a Heideggerian (1962) approach, Bronislaw Szerszynski employs three visual metaphors (blindness, distance, and movement) to illustrate how requires an imaginative removal of self from immediate everyday engagement in world (p.75). He emphasizes need to combine a locally rooted wayfinding (p.94) with abstract universal approach to environmental citizenship. The next two contributors examine concept of environmental from a feminist's and activist's perspective. Sherilyn MacGregor critiques gender blindness of existing environmental concepts and highlights tensions between advocating labor- and time-intensive lifestyle changes and demanding more active citizen participation in public sphere. Dave Horton examines green lifestyles lived by activists, role of networks, spaces, materialities, and times, and how activist derived elite model of environmental can be broadened (p.127). Horton emphasizes that the practice of groups and networks of environmentally concerned and committed best define environmental (p. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".