Andrew Dobson

Andrew Nicholas Howard Dobson ( born April 15, 1957) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Keele in the UK. His research focus is in the area of ​​environmental policy.

He is best known through the book Green Political Thought, in which he describes the " deep green " environmentalism as a political ideology and settles the " green light " for the environment.

Curriculum vitae

Dobson studied from 1976 to 1979 at the University of Reading and a doctorate to 1983 at the University of Oxford. Until 1986 he worked as Postdoctorand in Oxford, 1986, he was "Senior Lecturer" and in 1993 professor at the University of Keele. Since 1996, he has a guest professorship at the Technical University of Luleå, Sweden.

Political commitment

Dobson was a candidate in 2005 for the Green Party of England and Wales in the general election of Britain, but was not elected. In 2006, he stood in the local elections in Keele as a contestant on, but lost narrowly to the incumbent and local chairman of the Liberal Democrats.

Works (selection)

  • Green Political Thought, Taylor & Francis; 4th edition 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-40352-8
  • Citizenship and the Environment, Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-925844-4
  • Justice and the Environment - Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Theories of Distributive Justice clarendon Press 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-829495-5
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