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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.