1st Edition
Collective Sustainable Consumption The Case of Poland
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.
1. Introduction: Setting the Stage by Exploring Different Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption
Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska & Aleksandra Burgiel-Szewc & Marta Grybś-Kabocik & Anna Horodecka & Agnieszka Kacprowicz & Tadeusz Makulski & Ewa Radomska & Tomasz Szewc & Magdalena Śliwińska & Liudmyla Vozna & Agnieszka Ziomek & Jacek Zrałek & Jolanta Zrałek
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-Porczyńska
6. The interplay between inequalities and sustainability: The case of Poland
Anna Horodecka, Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska and Agnieszka Ziomek
7. Revision of the consumer sovereignty concept in the light of the sustainable consumption policy in Poland
Jacek Zrałek and Jolanta Zrałek
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 Śliwińska, Ewa Radomska and Tadeusz Makulski
11. Investments in Public Goods in Poland
Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska and Anna Horodecka
12. Prosumption-based solutions for achieving 12 SDG: the case of solar photovoltaics programmes in Poland
Jolanta Zrałek and Jacek Zrałek
13. Sustainable finance as a driver for changes towards sustainability
Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska and Agnieszka Kacprowicz
14. Pro-Ecological Implications of Developing Collaborative Platforms in Poland
Marta Grybś-Kabocik
15. Conclusions: Navigating the Landscape of Collective Sustainable Consumption
Anna Horodecka, Aleksandra Burgiel-Szewc, Marta Grybś-Kabocik, Agnieszka Kacprowicz, Tadeusz Makulski, Ewa Radomska, Tomasz Szewc, Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska, Magdalena Śliwińska, Liudmyla Vozna, Agnieszka Ziomek, Jacek Zrałek and Jolanta Zrałek
Biography
Anna Horodecka is Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska is Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland.
