Collective Sustainable Consumption: The Case of Poland (ISSN)

Synopsis

In the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The majority of the sustainable consumption research uses the SDG framework, but this only serves to reinforce an individualistic, efficiency-based approach and it does not sufficiently cover the specific situation of transition economies. In contrast, this volume promotes a collective approach to sustainable consumption, and combines general theoretical issues with empirical examples from the Polish economy. The first part of the book presents a theoretical approach to collective consumption which has the core concepts of justice and human nature at its heart. This approach emphasises the role of collective rationality and categorises aspects of sustainable consumption as a common and public good. The second part investigates diversified aspects of sustainability, including socio-economic inequalities as barriers to sustainable consumption, consumer sovereignty in the context of current legal regulations, and the impact on employees of changes to the types and conditions of work. It also examines the sharing economy and the legal conditions of its development. The third part adopts a political perspective focusing on the state policies enhancing the role of investment in public goods, analyses photovoltaic programmes which promote prosumption and indicates challenges to sustainability faced by many countries such as the energy crisis, sustainable finance, and cooperative platforms.This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars interested in sustainability and consumption issues in economics, management, law, public administration, and political science.

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040051788

Related ISBNs:

9781003413844, 9781040051795, 9781032538259

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

06/20/24

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N/A

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Anna Horodecka

Edited by:

Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska