The authors discuss some ecological challenges facing mainstream political theory today on both the descriptive and normative levels. They identify the key points of divergence between green political theory and mainstream political theory and then point to a number of important concepts (i.e. 'political', 'political community', 'justice', 'sustainability', 'intergenerational solidarity' and 'democracy') which are subject to reinterpretation in green political theory as a result of the introduction of a new key concept 'natural condition'. In the conclusion, the authors focus on the question of citizenship in understanding different ideological traditions of mainstream political theory by comparing it with the emerging concept of green citizenship.
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