西方环境公民权理论与绿色变革

生态可持续性理论和审议民主理论,对环境公民权的基本设定与理解有着很大的差异——前者是一种生态主义政治理论,而后者是自由主义政治理论的一种时代拓展。但在对环境公民权概念阐释的内容与方法上,二者存在着很多理论衔接点或相近点。更为重要的是,二者都可以理解为生态政治理论家和民主政治理论家试图借助环境公民权这一概念,在各自领域中推动一种有利于可持续社会目标实现的理论努力,虽然不能过高估计它们所蕴涵的社会绿色变革潜力。

Environmental citizenship theory and the green conversion

This article aims to make a comparative investigation of the major issues and propositions covered by the environmental citizenship theory in the perspectives of ecological sustainability and deliberative democracy, respectively. What is clear from this analysis is that the two versions of environmental citizenship theory belong to different camps of Green theories, the former representing a sub-discipline of ecological political thoughts and the latter an expansion of traditional liberalism, though there are also some methodological and theoretical points of conjuncture between them, and to a great extent both of them can be taken as the theoretical efforts from their own points of view to promote the understanding and realization of a sustainable society.