Collective Sustainable Consumption
The Case of Poland
- 278 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the contributors
- 1 Introduction: Setting the stage by exploring different perspectives on sustainable consumption
- 2 Exploring the collective perspective on sustainable consumption: A study of justice and human nature
- 3 The role of collective rationality in explaining the sustainable consumption: The rational choice theory revisited
- 4 Sustainable consumption as a common good: The citizen-consumer approach challenged
- 5 Sustainable consumption as a public good
- 6 The interplay between inequalities and sustainability: The case of Poland
- 7 Revision of the consumer sovereignty concept in the light of the sustainable consumption policy in Poland
- 8 The sustainable consumption of employees in the context of changing work models in Poland
- 9 Legal perspective on the development of sharing economy in Poland
- 10 Fair Trade as a driver for sustainable consumption: The Polish perspective
- 11 Investments in public goods in Poland
- 12 Prosumption-based solutions for achieving SDG 12: The case of solar photovoltaics programmes in Poland
- 13 Sustainable finance as a driver for changes towards sustainability
- 14 Pro-ecological implications of developing collaborative platforms in Poland
- 15 Conclusions: Navigating the landscape of collective sustainable consumption
- Index