Naslov
Collapse-free future or material wealth: what do Europeans want?

Autori
Domazet, Mladen ; Ančić, Branko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
Towards a European Society? Boundaries, Borders, Barriers / Božić, Saša ; Primorac, Jaka - Zagreb : Hrvatsko sociološko društvo, 2014, 54-54

ISBN
978-953-6552-95-5

Skup
International Scienti∫c Conference Towards a European Society? Boundaries, Borders, Barriers

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 13.06.2014. - 15.06.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
sustainability; social transformation; prosperity thesis; Europe; ISSP

Sažetak
Avoiding a whole-scale collapse of the civilisation supporting ecosystems within this century will require a change in the social metabolism (civilisation’s material throughput), as well as in expectations and aspirations, behaviours and attitudes of the majority of the global population. For some, this is a question of modifying aspirations and focusing on those whose realisation is most sustainable and most valued in the long-term period (developing world) ; whilst for others this is a matter of sacri∫ce of existing material manifold of wellbeing, a reduction in extraction of environmental resources and dumping of waste. In this context, European societies, having the highest level of material and social development, carry a signi∫cant strategic role in exemplifying the future as sustainability-oriented or oblivious to whole-scale collapse. By comparing “objective” development and environmental impact indices, with population’s attitudes across a range of European countries, we aim to elucidate possible links between society’s objective potential to transform its practices and material throughput to those more suitable to a globally just long-term sustainability, and its population’s support for the required social transformations. Our paper primarily aims to test the respective populations’ agreement ; that is, the prevalence of support for some of sustainability-compatible strategies against the dominant prosperity thesis, which claims that greater national wealth is the best predictor of population’s environmental and development concerns. We rely on data from cross-country social surveys that will be used (EVS, ISSP) to map trends among European populations’ attitudes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Filozofija

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