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Resilient citizenship and natural disasters: the Christchurch earthquake

Dr Bronwyn Hayward, FDSD trustee and Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, talks about the impact of New Zealand’s devastating Christchurch earthquake on democracy, and its  implications for ‘resilient citizenship’.

Bronwyn explores what makes for ‘resilient…

Citizenship at the Conservation Economy

I’ve been happily distracted, in all the general election and coalition mayhem and the musings on the implications of Coalition and hung parliaments for sustainable development.. by a visit the Conservation Economy blog. Jon Alexander, one of its founders, told me…

The Decade of the Citizen

Adding to youarewhatyoubuysome of the themes explored in an earlier post on the idea of the ‘consumer citizen’, this post from guest blogger Jules Peck, over at Citizen Renaissance, argues that the mix between consumerism and citizen action for sustainable development…

The Consumer-Citizen: potential to strengthen democracy for sustainable development?

seeds2Conversations in the US this week have prompted me to reflect on the potential for the idea of the ‘consumer-citizen’ to drive democratic innovation for sustainable development.

The Consumer Citizenship Network describes a ‘consumer citizen’ as “an individual who makes choices based…