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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 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 research results presented in the paper refer to the territorial, demographic and functional organization of Negotinska krajina which is, in many ways, specific area in north-eastern Serbia. The researched area is a complex territorial system according to its position, economical and demographic areal and functional development. Physical and geographical basis is no longer a limiting factor of the inner structure and functional differentiation of Krajina. The effect the basis has on the development of Krajina is double: direct and indirect. The direct effect that the natural elements (configuration, climate, water, biogeographical and pedological features) have on city and village location can be seen in the possibility of their territorial and functional spreading. The indirect effects are realized through influencing population position and economical resources and their evaluation.
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In the present work the spatial organization, lifestyle of citizens, the types and images of the county towns in the context of the Russian imperial culture are examined. These days, the interest to the towns of this type, the provincial culture as a whole has increased. Imperial culture intensified contradictions between center and the provinces. Towns of Mordovia had existed in different sub-civilizations but the meaningful “code”, established at their base, predetermined immutable features of the urban fabric and way of life of citizens for a few centuries. These towns, created by the state, were not to promote industry, trade or culture. They were a part of the administrative network and performed control functions, broadcast power in the province.
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Suburbs with non-agricultural population, which have no city functions, are formed in the closest gravitational sphere of the cities. One of the examples of such settlements is Veternik, a settlement in the gravitational area of Novi Sad, which was formed shortly after the World War I. The subject of the research is an overview of the development of Veternik as a typical suburban settlement. Considering the location, history, population, migration characteristics and features of the Veternik settlement, the goal is to discuss the development of the periurban area of Novi Sad.
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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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Rozhovor s PhDr. Šárkou Gjuričovou, psycholožkou a rodinnou terapeutkou o variantách rané péče o děti a o důležité možnosti volby mezi nimi. Rozhovor vedla Michaela Marksová-Tominová.
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