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Steve Vanderheiden

Prof. Dr. Steve Vanderheiden

Carson Fellow

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Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG, 401
80802 Munich


Steve Vanderheiden is professor of political science and environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the USA. Trained as a political theorist, his research focuses on issues of justice and democracy in international environmental politics and policy.

RCC Research Project: Visible Carbon: The Social, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Pollution Transparency


Selected Publications:

  • Environmental Political Theory. Polity, 2020.
  • "The Obligation to Know: Information and the Burdens of Citizenship." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19, no. 2 (2016): 297-311.
  • "Individual Moral Duties Amidst Climate Injustice: Imagining a Sustainable Future." University of Tasmania Law Review 37 (2018): 116-130.
  • "Treading Lightly: Conscientiousness, Information, and Ecological Impacts." In The Virtues of Sustainability, edited by Jason Kawall (Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • "Personal Carbon Trading and Individual Mitigation Accountability." In Transformative Climates and Accountable Governance, edited by E. Edmundson and S. Levy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 273-99.
  • Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change. Oxford, 2008.