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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 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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