"Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the toxic legacy of the Communist era. It offers rich insights into the questions of how one can achieve both economic growth and improved environmental and safety protection, and of the extent to ..."
"Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy- and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience. Social Change and the ..."
"Brown and her colleagues offer an unprecedented analysis of how multinational corporations and developing countries manage, in the face of differing values, to relate as each proceeds in the interest of particular development objectives. Through three case studies involving Du Pont Agrichemical, Occidental Chemical, and Xerox and the countries of India and Thailand, the authors illustrate how the differing values of the host country and ..."
"Few people who think about the state of the world are content with the status quo. The increasingly complex mix of economic, social, environmental and political problems at all scales requires new ways of thinking. It also requires new ways of integrating mutually supportive ideas and approaches, which is what this useful new book offers around the theme of sustainable consumption. The editors and contributors offer a breadth and depth ..."
"'Few people who think about the state of the world are content with the status quo. The increasingly complex mix of economic, social, environmental and political problems at all scales requires new ways of thinking. It also requires new ways of integrating mutually supportive ideas and approaches, which is what this useful new book offers around the theme of sustainable consumption. The editors and contributors offer a breadth and depth ..."
"Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy- and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience. Social Change and the ..."
"Sociologist Giorgio Gosetti (2012) shows that in Italy, one out of three families
has cut its spending on food during the past several years, while one out of four
households has reduced its purchases of medicines and toiletries. For the other
categories of goods monitored (clothes, home furnishings, and technological
products), the percentage of respondents declaring that they had curtailed their
spending exceeded 60 percent. Inte ..."
"Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy- and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience. Social Change and the ..."
"New Economics, Socio-Technical Transitions and Social Practices Maurie J.
Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip Vergragt ... 'Macroeconomic priorities',
American Economic Review, 93(1), 1414. ... in L. Pecchi and G. Piga (eds),
Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press, pp. ... Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our
Grandchildren, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 41486. Stoll, ..."