Some Preliminary Research on Awareness Concerning Sustainable Development and Healthy Food

• Autorzy: Joost Platje , Andrzej Stasiuk
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

At the beginning of March 2005 a short ąuestionnaire was carried out among 721 Polish students. The main aim was to obtain a rough picture of students' awareness on some issues of sustainable development and healthy food, in order to create a basis for broader research among a larger group (e.g. farmers, housewives, civil servants, politicians, pensioners, etc.). Awareness on issues of sustainable development and healthy food is important for developing ecological policy [see Słodczyk and Sobuś, 1999], agricultural policy [see Rahman, 2005] and policies for sustainable development [see Byelyakov, this volume]. Furthermore, it may be helpful to stimulate sustainable consumption patterns [see Wong et al., 1996] and to increase the demand for ecological food products [see Słodka, 2004]. Students were chosen as the research group, as it was assumed that due to their education they should be quite well informed on the issues of interest. The questions concerned whether sustainable development is an important issue, opinions about the free market, preferences for healthy or cheap food, reading information on food labels, whether Polish or foreign food is healthier and the influence of EU accession on the quality of food.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Health food; Sustainable development; Ecological politics

PL

Zdrowa żywność; Rozwój zrównoważony; Polityka ekologiczna

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2005
• Numer: Vol. 7
• Strony: 207--215

Twórcy

autor

Joost Platje

• Opole University (Poland)

autor

Andrzej Stasiuk

• Opole University, Poland

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