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The object of our attention is sustainable development, the definitions andinterpretations of, the history of ideas and the dimensions of the deployment. The mainprospect, which draw attention to the lifestyle and the consequences for its changes inconnection with the popularization of sustainable development perspective.
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In a globalized world a chosen, by an individual or a group, lifestyle doesnot make a constatnt element of existance, but just an option, that might be picked onthe basis of social situation, historical moment or geographical placement. Depending onthe fact how deep it is rooted in a recognised value system it may form a less or morepermament shape of everyday life. This rule refers also to lifestyles defined as sustainableor ecological ones. The process of their creation is linked to a deeper reflection onwhat we buy, how we consume and how we organize our everyday activities. It alsodepends on a social and cultural capital of groups and individuals. In their analysis,a reflection on dependence between social and class location of people and a qualityof natural environment they live in appears. A lifestyle, among others, includes suchdimensions of everyday life as: level and character of consumption, ways of spendingfree time, character of social contacts or activities connected with health care and wellness.In the following text chosen aspects of the above are discussed.
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The text is based on the results of a comparative study of lifestyles presentedby selected residents of Szmulki part of Praga district in Warsaw. The material for descriptionwas collected by means of narrative interviews, overt and covert observationsand also perceptions recorded in the researcher’s log. The examples of changes in stylesof life in view of such factors as: occupational and personal conditioning of the respondents,their capital reserves, age or family situation. The results of the choices they made(being aware or not) are new configurations in the cultural space signifying a degree ofbalance between particular spheres of respondents’ everyday lives.
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This text is devoted to the description of selected elements of lifestyle, directly and indirectly referring to the concept of sustainable development as part of the experience of city dwellers industrial. I draw the attention to the similarities and differences in socio‑culturalpractices of women and men looking for their specificity. I refer to research carried out under the project on the ideas and practices of living, conducted in Katowice.
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The text deals with the phenomenon of prosumption in the context of theeconomic crisis. It presents the social determinants and consequences of this phenomenon.Pays special attention to the category of poor and monitors practices and consumerprosumption the poor.
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The article presents a part of research that has been conducted amongst young consumers (mostly full‑time and part‑time students up to 35 years) in chosenEuropean Union countries, e.g. Poland, UK, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Czech Republicand Slovenia during recent seven years. The main goal of that paper is to present theecological and pro‑environmental attitudes that are evinced by young consumers inPoland and chosen EU countries. The Author focuses on similarities and differencesin ways of thinking about recycling, reusing and other activities that have the positiveinfluence on environment. Nowadays sustainable development and sustainable marketingare getting more and more important for individual consumers. As companies tryto compete on market with different tools and using different competitive advantages,the role of sustainable marketing is growing also as a result of changes in fashion thatyounger consumers present. This article presents also one of the pro‑ecologicalProjects – Eco Talent 2013 that was introduced to younger consumers (students up to 35) who had some ideas on developing their business in a pro‑environmental way. For this segment it is important to act with a sustainable development attitude and eco‑entrepreneurshipway of business.The detailed research results on this topic were presented in different papers. The articleshows Eco Talent Project as an example of involving the younger groups of consumersinto sustainable economy.
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The problem of gender equality is one of the most important issues raised in the public space of France. But we should not forget that the struggle for recognition of rights, initially political, began long before the Fifth French Republic, as dates back to the French Revolution.Implementation of recognition of the principle of gender equality through the introductionof parity in politics is one of the most progressive in Europe. Established in 2012. Ministry. Women’s Rights, and mainly act on real equality between women and men (LOI n° 2014‑873du 4 août 2014 pour l’égalité réelle entre les femmes et les hommes) show that gender streategia mainstreaming is not a theory but it certainly has a practical dimension.
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The article presents the concept of “autonomous sphere”, which in the discourseof political ecology often operates as an alternative to including state structures and market “heteronomous sphere” – the basis for the consolidation of a sustainable society. In the sphere of discourse autonomous functions as an overt or covert basis for solutions that are presented as a tool for building a sustainable society. This article will discuss ways in which you can build up the value of the sphere at the expense of autonomous heteronomous and the potential benefits that can be achieved in this way for the evolution of lifestyles towards more ecologically responsible and builds social ties patterns of behavior.
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The concept of good governance is derived from the discourse of the World Bankon the development strategies of the 80s aimed at fighting poverty in developing countries.In time the good governance has become a category of evaluating the effectiveness of publicsector activities generally for business purposes and as part of the strategy for sustainabledevelopment. The good governance, and its most instanced area – good administrativepractice is considered, in fact, for the fourth, horizontal pillar of sustainable development,next to the pillars of environmental, social and economic. The objective of good governanceis to build social cohesion, strengthening of democracy and human rights, contributeto environmental protection, sustainable management of human resources. Strategies forgood governance alleviate social tensions through dialogue, participation, broader accessto information, including through scientific progress, educational activities for sustainabledevelopment, including through public debate and reflection related to her. There is nouniversal set of elements of good governance. Many institutions and organizations topromote their own models, which show a large variation in this respect, but it seems to bethe leading model of the World Bank. Since the 90’s was developed a set of indicators forassessing and determining the levels of good governance, but the lack of a uniform andfully reliable system of assessment, but these data are seen as an important cognitive andserve as a reference framework of implemented strategies for sustainable development.
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The basic notion of sustainable development is inter‑ and intragenerationjustice being realized in a framework of longtime efficiency of the earth ecosystem. The process of sustainable development has to take place simultanously on a local and a global scale. Modern cities have become the focal point of the problem as places under the most unsustainable development, as the same point being the most populated ones. Urban areas may and should stimulate changes in lifestyles which become in a natural way sustainable and at the same time attractive. In the article we would like to focuse on issues conneted with creating urban space friendly for this type of lifestyle.
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The text presents the critique of activities related to environmental protection, which de facto serve the interests of economic and political. The author exemplifies her thesis, following the example of Costa Rica and its people.
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This article aims to reconstruct fragments of discourse on climate changepresented in two Polish influential magazines: 'Nesweek' and 'Polityka' and on the Internet.The author through the analysis of both written (magazines) and visual (Internet)content tries to demonstrate what questions do the editors ask themselves describing theproblem and what are the visions and effects of climate change they expect. Is actuallyEarth's climate cooling or warming? Furthermore, the author analyzing the visualizationof the effects of cooling or Warming tries to indicato visions of the effects of climatExchange imposed on media recipients.
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The present article handles about considers ecology in traditional ruralcommunity life, although ecology in an unusual sense, and the description refers totwo dimensions of sustainable development agricultural land development and rurallifestyle. The analysis is based on a collection of texts about agricultural and rural areas,from the beginning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contemporary ecology‑relatedconcepts have been incorporated into the literature analysis. The texts are boththe scientific postulates and the community’s narratives.
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The development of the Mordovian region in the early XVII century under conditions of an existential crisis, caused by extreme climatic situation, is analyzed in the article. The impact of changes in natural conditions on the regional historical development, which resulted in a series of “lean years” and a sharp surge of national discontent with the policy of the State, is considered. Ways of overcoming the crisis, proposed by the people and authorities, are comprehended.
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The essential role of education and training is to maintain and develop the intellectual and spiritual balance of the individual in a social environment, thus forming, in time, the appropriate personality and identity. The individual, in his turn, with his knowledge, skills and intellectual and spiritual wealth, accumulated over the years in educational institutions, as well as other education and training structures, will contribute in a decent and civilized mode to the welfare and development of their own society, in this way, giving a meaning to the spiritual, intellectual, as well as material content that brings satisfaction and benefit in personal and social life. Thus, education and training, based on a set of values that are regularly applied to the formation of the intellectual and moral traits of an individual, are those actions that have as objective the evolutionary improvement of the social environment, considered to be the best substance regulated by the individual. Thus, both man and the social environment are both a whole of the existence through which mutual exchange of values and actions takes place, which in the process of development equally necessitates frequent transformations in development.
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Günümüzdeki çevre sorunlarının genellikle Sanayi Devrimi ile başladığı kabul edilir. Sanayi Devrimi ile birlikte başlayan ve halen devam eden hammaddeye duyulan müthiş ihtiyaç ve kitlesel üretimin sonucu ortaya çıkan her türden atığın kontrolsüzce doğaya salınması doğanın hem hammadde tedarikçisi hem de çöp deposu olarak sömürülmesine varmıştır. Dünyanın hızla kirlenmesi ve kirliliğin canlı yaşamı tehdit eder hale gelmesiyle 1960 ve 70’ler ile birlikte çevreci bir duyarlılık doğmuş ve sesini yükseltmeye başlamıştır. Ne var ki bu çevreci tepkiler tek sesli olmamıştır. Çevre sorunlarının kaynakları ve sorunların toptan çözümü veya etkilerinin en azından asgariye indirilmesiyle ilgili farklı görüşler farklı çevreci hareketler yaratmıştır. Bugün çevre sorunları ile ilgili çevre korumacılık, ekolojizm, toplumsal ekoloji, derin ekoloji, eko-feminizm, eko-sosyalizm gibi pek çok fikir sistematiğinden bahsedilebilir. Bu fikir sistematikleri ekolojik sorunlara bakışlarına göre genel olarak bütüncül (holistik) ve indirgemeci olarak iki başlık altında toplanabilir. İndirgemeci bakış, ekolojik sorunların kaynağı olarak insanların bilinçsiz üretim ve tüketim faaliyetlerinde bulunmalarını görürken bütüncül bakış, bunların yanı sıra toplumsal ve bireysel eşitsizlikler, hiyerarşi ve tahakküm ilişkileri ile kültürel ve yönetsel yapıları işaret etmektedir. ‘‘Çevre korumacılık’’ anlayışı indirgemeci bakış altında görülebilirken ‘‘bütüncül bakışı’’ benimseyenler ekolojik düşünce olarak adlandırılır.
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Toplumsal olaylar, bireylerin doğru buldukları gerçeklerin hayata geçirilmesi veya yanlış gördüklerinin durdurulması amacıyla gerçekleşen kitlesel tepkilerdir. Barışçıl anlamda gerçekleştirilen toplumsal olaylar yerine, Türkçe dilinde kendine daha geniş yer bulan “protesto” sözcüğünün Türk Dil Kurumu’na göre ilk anlamı “Bir davranışı, bir düşünceyi, bir uygulamayı haksız, yersiz, gereksiz bularak karşı çıkma, kabul etmeme” şeklinde açıklanmıştır. Amacı, yerel veya ulusal mercilerin dikkatini çekerek kamuoyu iradesini kanıtlamak ve yapılış amacının önüne geçilmesidir. Birer sosyal hareket olarak, barışçıl, tepkiyi açıkça belli eden ve dikkat toplamak için farklı yolların denendiği toplumsal olaylar içinde protestolar, şiddet içermez.
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This article deals with part of the complex relationship of political and ecological activity. This complexity is evident in a number of subjects which deal with ecological issues and in several „green“ national and inter-national policies. Thus, under the term ecological activists we can differentiate between individuals, local, national and international environmental organizations. All of them have influence on different levels of the creation and implementation of policy - local, substate, state and inter-state level. The content of the relationship between ecological and political subject is seen through two kinds of activities. One is direct actions of ecological organizations regarding some specific environmental question. Other activities are pressures with proposals, petitions, and requests to the state authorities to issue a legal act. All these legal acts - local, regional, state and international, constitute a particular „environmental law“. Now, its most important international part is the Aarhus Convention.
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1. Premises of implementing environmental management system. 2. Origins of environmental management systems. 3. Environmental management according to the ISO 14000 series standards. 4. Environmental management system in compliance with the ISO 14001 standard. 5. Eco-management and audit scheme EMAS. 6. Stages of implementing the environmental management system in the organization. 7. Similarities and differences between the ISO 14001 standard and EMAS. 8. Application of utility environmental management standards in the organization. 8.1. Evaluation of environmental performance. 8.2. Life cycle assessment. 8.3. Environmental labels and declarations. 8.4. Environmental design.
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Mapping Climate Justice proposes a 3-dimensional environmental justice approach to share economic benefits and the burden of climate change right, just and fair around the globe. Scientific data is backed by ethical imperatives. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) gains and losses of a warming globe are captured to be distributed unequal around the world. The ethical climatorial imperative demands for an equalization of the gains of climate change around the globe in order to offset losses incurred due to climate change (Kant 1783/1993; Puaschunder 2017b, c; Rawls 1971).First, climate justice within a country should pay tribute to the fact that low- and high-income households carry the same burden proportional to their disposable income, for instance, enabled through a progressive carbon taxation, consumption tax to curb harmful behavior and/or corporate inheritance tax to reap benefits of past wealth accumulation that may have caused climate change (Puaschunder 2017c).Secondly, fair climate change change burden sharing between countries ensures those countries benefiting more from a warmer environment also bear a higher responsibility regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts (Puaschunder 2019). Thirdly, climate justice over time is proposed in an innovative climate change burden sharing bonds strategy, which distributes the benefits and burdens of a warming earth Pareto-optimal among generations (Puaschunder 2016a). All these recommendations are aimed at sharing the burden but also the benefits of climate change within society in an economically efficient, legally equitable and practically feasible way now and also between generations.
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