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Zrównoważona konsumpcja w praktyce. Raport z badań
Sustainable consumption in practice. Summary of research findings

Author(s): Barbara Jaroszuk
Subject(s): National Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: sustainable consumption; sustainable and unsustainable patterns of behaviour

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of a survey conducted for the author’s PhD dissertation:The concept of sustainable consumption - problems of implementation in Poland. The survey was an empirical illustration of the implementation of principles of sustainable consumption on the example of the consumers’ behavior – an adult population of the Silesian Voivodeship.The research questionnaire consisted of forty questions grouped in four thematic areas: food consumption, consumption associated with the equipment and maintenance of households, consumption associated with the use of transport and the general issues of consumption. The survey was an attempt to indicate some of the problems that are associated with the consumption in households - it stressed the importance of economic, regulatory and social instruments in the development of sustainable consumption and also showed the views of citizens of the Silesian Voivodeshipin this area.

  • Issue Year: 81/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 148-161
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish