Have you seen these papers?

Hobson, K., 2013. On the making of the environmental citizen. Environmental Politics, 22(1), pp.56-72.

Head, L., Farbotko, C., Gibson, C., Gill, N. and Waitt, G., 2013. Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 20(4), pp.351-362.

Kenis, A., 2016. Ecological citizenship and democracy: Communitarian versus agonistic perspectives. Environmental Politics, 25(6), pp.949-970.

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Dear Revathi, that is a good question, the discussion is taken place everywhere at the same time, including here in Canada.  As you may know in 2012 Rio +20/UNCSD/The future we want we shifted from traditional market thinking to green market thinking to address environmental issues including climate change head on....that mean internalizing the environmental cost margin into the price mechanism of traditional market to transform them into green markets...green producers and green consumers clearing the green market at the green market price....

Problem is that from 2012 to now....instead of setting up green markets they have been moving to setting up carbon pricing based markets, which are dwarf green markets....So after the paradigm shift to green market thinking instead of internalizing environmental issues and make them endogenous issues they are still treating as externalities using externality management markets like the carbon pricing based market....

Climate change action, be it government led or business led or led by citizens is a science based action that needs to be implemented through a science based market, green markets not through non-science based carbon pricing based markets......

As food for thoughts I am sharing here with you the following paper Revathi:

Perfect Green Markets vrs Dwarf Green Markets: Did We Start Trying to Solve the Environmental Crisis in 2012 With the Wrong Green Foot? If Yes, How Can This Situation Be Corrected?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305994500_Perfect_Green_Markets_vrs_Dwarf_Green_Markets_Did_We_Start_Trying_to_Solve_the_Environmental_Crisis_in_2012_With_the_Wrong_Green_Foot_If_Yes_How_Can_This_Situation_Be_Corrected

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Dear Revathi,

The answer is in the fact that we all have to influence decisions affecting our lives. The Climate Changes (or, something more visible : Climate extremes) are definitely influencing our daily lives. They are now also influencing the life of generations to come. Hence, it is obvious that today's population is responsible for planning decisions that will today mitigate and reduce negative influence of CC. City planning will have to be changed. The systematic inclusion of wide stakeholders base is necessary. It is the duty of city planning managements to do that. It is also our duty, as citizens, to press them to create system where our opinion will become integral part of the planning process. This will require our (academic and consulting community) systematic effort in changing planning mentality!

Part of the urban climate issue and the participation of people begins with the industrial revolution took place in Europe between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in addition to changing the mode of production and consumption, also directly influenced the quality of life and urban infrastructure as the man left the field, where he produced their own food, to live in cities.

This urban growth was unaccompanied by a plan that could absorb housing supply needs, urban facilities, public transport services, education and health.

Ensure the quality of life is of paramount importance, since the time of the industrial revolution which occurred disease outbreaks due to lack of infrastructure, and in recent days providing housing quality and comfort to workers.

Research on the issue of urban systems are also developed mainly by universities and educational centers, where resources are limited and dependent on notices or even own research resources. It should be a public policy.

 Dear friends, here sharing some food for thoughts....

Dragos and Michael, you can not make true environmenal citizens or true environmental households or true ecological citizens under non-green market approaches such as carbon p;ricing based markets or low carbon based markets...citizen then will have to alwasy be pushed to be evironmetally friendl....

Ranko, goverments, cities, can not induced sustainable environmental friendliness in citizens or corporations or firms using non-green market approache,,,,

'Napoleon, climate change affects us all and the climate action is a science based action...but if a science based action is implemented through a non-science based market such as carbon pricing based markets or low carbon based markets it will not be effective....

Marcos, climate issues, local or global, urban or no urban, as indicated above, need to be implemented through science based markets, green markets, which requires us to interanlize the environmental cost in the production price of the tradtional market to make it environmentally friendly and shift it to green markets....green markets are partnership economy and environment so environmental issues should be internalities, not externalities....Addressing climate change action through exteranlity management means you are operation outside green markets...eneficiently....

You all may find this article interesting as food for thoughts:

Beyond Traditional Market Thinking: What is the Structure of the Perfect Green market?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302025169_Beyond_Traditional_Market_Thinking_What_is_the_Structure_of_the_Perfect_Green_market

Wish a nice day to all

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Raise awareness and increase environmental awareness among citizens is the first step for the promotion of environmental ethics.

The citizens' participation to the city planning processes must become the field of application of the environmental ethic and capable of generating sustainable development.

There are many models for the definition of the citizens' values which may be aimed to implement some decision models with multiple stakeholders including the citizens.

Mainly they have to get used to sustainable lifestyles then it covers the ethical considerations!

Keep the cities clean and pollution free (water; land; air), to achieve safer & healthier environment. This requires complete support and cooperation of Government and Public, without which the attempt to keep the cities pollution free is next to impossible. Creating mass awareness on the negative impacts / effects of mismanagement of our natural resources is another important activity for achieving the long term goals.

When it comes to tackling climate change, everyone needs to think ethically. In order to ensure  participation of citizens in the making of a city in fulfilling the said goal against climate change, one needs to create awareness and environmental education. I fully agree with Dr. Maria Rosa Trovato that raising awareness and increase environmental awareness among citizens is the first step for the promotion of environmental ethics. The citizens' participation to the city planning processes must become the field of application of the environmental ethic and capable of generating sustainable development. Action against climate change begins at our home, so one needs to start trying by changing at the home level. And definitely, avoid the “gloom and doom pessimism and blind technological optimism.  When a citizen realize we are part of nature, and our role is to understand and work with nature and not to conquer it, then he/she automatically choose the method that contributes least to climate change. I realize this while working for a research project under Smart City Project and found when citizen was aware ,they start themselves for proper waste management and solar lighting based practices. Indore a city from MP (India)  “Act Together program “is also a good example.

https://www.thebetterindia.com/99187/indore-waste-segregation-swachh-clean/