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The paper presents the concept of Fair Trade, which is considered an alternative to conventional trade, and becomes increasingly popular in the Western countries. In addition, some results of empirical research, conveyed in Poland and aimed at diagnosis and assessment of Fairtrade products...
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Interest in Social, Environmental, Ethical and Trust (SEET) in banking has experienced a rapid growth over the last decade. This paper provides the first overview of SEET issues in banking. The overview introduces international initiatives such as: the United Nations Environmental Programme...
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gives an overview over main environmental ethics positions to prepare the ground for the argument that industrial ecology … systems methodology: interdependence, diversity and complexity and explores their relationship to values in ethics …
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It is the nature of powerful ideas that they can summarize a ground-breaking concept in a plain and simple message. In this sense, the concept of sustainability is a very powerful idea. However, although the sustainability debate has already brought about considerable conceptual progress, a...
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The modern consumer society is criticised for its harmful impact on individual well-being and the environment, prompting a call for a transition to responsible consumption. This article explores emerging trends in consumer behaviour towards responsible consumption. Drawing from existing...
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According to the author, Thomistic environmental ethics is the ethics of respect for man and nature. Contrary to …-ecological dimension. Thomism teaches that there is hierarchical order in reality. In Thomistic ethics it is God who is the main reference … all natural beings have the same axiological value. In Thomistic eco-ethics a man, understood as a human person, has an …
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Purpose: The main goals of this paper are: (1) to analyse the concepts of sustainability, responsibility and ethics … sphere of personal advantage where ethics, instead of being an irreplaceable and essential stronghold, is found to be a … social responsibility and ethics and of the behaviour that companies can adopt in the three contexts. A critical approach to …
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three subthemes: the (green) environment; ethics, rights and responsibilities; poverty and (sustainable) development. These …
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With global specialization and trade, countries make directly but also indirectly use of the environment via traded goods. Based on the theory of comparative advantages, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek approach, we are using the Ecological Footprint as a broad measure of environmental use because its...
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The paper represents a new reading of the traditional Ricardian theory of comparative advantages to tackle current challenges of environmental and climate policy. In the style of David Ricardo, it demonstrates that international trade is a positive-sum game in a twogoods, two-countries world...
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