Place of birth: Doncaster, England

Education: Univs of Reading and Oxford

Career: founding Co-Ed. and Chair. Editorial Bd Environmental Politics 1991–; member Editorial Bd Environmental Values 1991–2004, Anarchist Studies 1991–2000, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Global Environmental Politics, Philosophy and Geography and Social Movement Studies; Lecturer in Politics, Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice, Keele Univ. 1987–93, Professor of Politics and Chair. Dept of Politics 1993–2001, 2006–, Dir Grad. School of Social Sciences 1999–2001, 2006–, Acting Dean of Postgraduate Affairs 2001; Professor of Politics, Open Univ. 2002–06; Visiting Professor of Politics, Luleå Univ. of Technology, Sweden 1997–2002; unsuccessful Green Party cand. in UK Gen. Election 2005, also ran in local elections contesting Keele Ward 2006

Honours and awards: Spanish Govt Scholar 1983–84, Econ. and Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St John’s Coll. Oxford 1984–87, Keele Univ. Research Fellowship 1991, Harrison Prize for best article published in 2006 in Political Studies 2007

Publications include: monographs: An Introduction to the Politics and Philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset 1989, Green Political Thought 1990, 2007, Jean-Paul Sartre and the Politics of Reason: A Theory of History 1993, Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Dimensions of Social Justice 1998, Citizenship and the Environment 2003; edited books: The Green Reader (ed.) 1991, The Politics of Nature: Exploration in Green Political Theory (co-ed. with Paul Lucardie) 1993, Contemporary Political Studies, Vols 1 and 2 (co-ed.) 1998, Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice (ed.) 1999, Environmental Citizenship (co- ed. with Derek Bell) 2005, Citizenship, Environment, Economy (co-ed. with Angel Valencia) 2005, Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (co-ed. with Robyn Eckerlsey) 2006, The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency (co-ed.) 2006; works have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean; numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals; book reviews for Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement, Political Studies, Environmental Politics, Environmental Values, Modern Languages Review, Sociological Review, Sociology, Radical Philosophy, Tribune, Anarchist Studies, International Affairs, APSR

Contact details: Address: Room CBB2.024, Humanities and Social Sciences: Politics, International Relations and Philosophy (SPIRE), Chancellor's Building, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., ST5 5BG , England (office); Tel: (1908) 652022 (office); Tel: (1782) 583591 (office); Fax: (1782) 584592 (office); Email: a.n.h.dobson@keele.ac.uk (office); Email: a.n.h.dobson@pol.keele.ac.uk (office); Email: andy@andrewdobson.com ; Website: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/ ; Website: http://www.andrewdobson.com/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09644016.asp/ .