This volume promotes a collective approach to sustainable consumption, and combines general theoretical issues with empirical examples from the Polish economy.
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 UNs 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.
1. Introduction: Setting the Stage by Exploring Different Perspectives
on Sustainable Consumption Alina Szypulewska-Porczyska & Aleksandra
Burgiel-Szewc & Marta Gryb-Kabocik & Anna Horodecka & Agnieszka Kacprowicz &
Tadeusz Makulski & Ewa Radomska & Tomasz Szewc & Magdalena liwiska &
Liudmyla Vozna & Agnieszka Ziomek & Jacek Zraek & Jolanta Zraek
2.
Exploring the Collective Perspective on Sustainable Consumption: A Study of
Justice and Human Nature Anna Horodecka
3. The Role of Collective Rationality
in Explaining the Sustainable Consumption: The Rational Choice Theory
Revisited Liudmyla Vozna and Anna Horodecka
4. Sustainable Consumption as a
Common Good: The Citizen-Consumer Approach Challenged Anna Horodecka
5.
Sustainable Consumption as a Public Good Alina Szypulewska-Porczyska
6. The
Interplay Between Inequalities and Sustainability: The Case of Poland Anna
Horodecka, Alina Szypulewska-Porczyska and Agnieszka Ziomek
7. Revision of
the Consumer Sovereignty Concept in the Light of the Sustainable Consumption
Policy in Poland Jacek Zraek and Jolanta Zraek
8. The Sustainable
Consumption of Employees in the Context of Changing Work Models in Poland
Agnieszka Ziomek and Anna Horodecka
9. Legal Perspective on the Development
of Sharing Economy in Poland Tomasz Szewc and Aleksandra Burgiel-Szewc
10.
Fair Trade as a Driver for Sustainable Consumption: The Polish Perspective
Magdalena liwiska, Ewa Radomska and Tadeusz Makulski
11. Investments in
Public Goods in Poland Alina Szypulewska-Porczyska and Anna Horodecka
12.
Prosumption-based Solutions for Achieving SDG 12: The Case of Solar
Photovoltaics Programmes in Poland Jolanta Zraek and Jacek Zraek
13.
Sustainable Finance as a Driver for Changes Towards Sustainability Alina
Szypulewska-Porczyska and Agnieszka Kacprowicz
14. Pro-Ecological
Implications of Developing Collaborative Platforms in Poland Marta
Gryb-Kabocik
15. Conclusions: Navigating the Landscape of Collective
Sustainable Consumption Anna Horodecka, Aleksandra Burgiel-Szewc, Marta
Gryb-Kabocik, Agnieszka Kacprowicz, Tadeusz Makulski, Ewa Radomska, Tomasz
Szewc, Alina Szypulewska-Porczyska, Magdalena liwiska, Liudmyla Vozna,
Agnieszka Ziomek, Jacek Zraek and Jolanta Zraek
Anna Horodecka is Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
Alina Szypulewska-Porczyska is Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
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