Katarzyna Iwinska

• PhD
• Vice-Rector for Scientific Research at Collegium Civitas

Purpose This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of pro-environmental behavior (PEB) research within higher education institutions (HEIs), highlighting current trends and future challenges. Design/methodology/approach Using 198 journal articles from the Web of Science, the study conducts co-citation, bibliographic coupling and co-word a...

Celem niniejszego raportu jest prezentacja kluczowych elementów tychże krajowych planów, z uwzględnieniem europejskiego kontekstu ich przyjęcia, stanu ich realizacji oraz społecznych aspektów ich wdrażania Jego zasadnicza część opiera się na analizie wspomnianych strategicznych dokumentów rządowych: Krajowego Planu na rzecz Energii i Klimatu na lat...

Projekt „Strategia Bezpieczeństwa Technologii Wodorowych w Polsce na lata 2022-2030″ jest odpowiedzią wynikającą z zaangażowania w rozwój i implementację technologii nisko- i zeroemisyjnego wodoru w polskim systemie energetycznym. Wdrażanie technologii wodorowych to ambitna inicjatywa, która nie tylko wynika z wyzwań klimatycznych, ale również jest...

Projekt „Strategia Bezpieczeństwa Technologii Wodorowych w Polsce na lata 2022-2030″ jest odpowiedzią wynikającą z zaangażowania w rozwój i implementację technologii nisko- i zeroemisyjnego wodoru w polskim systemie energetycznym. Wdrażanie technologii wodorowych to ambitna inicjatywa, która nie tylko wynika z wyzwań klimatycznych, ale również jest...

Strengthening positive human–nature relationships is seen as a way to more pro‐environmental behaviour and leads to a greater environmental sustainability. Therefore, understanding human–nature relationships has attracted increasing attention among researchers. Nature connectedness is a concept developed to measure such relationships. Since nature...

Achieving energy democracy requires public engagement and social inclusion in decision-making, but meaningful conversations between different groups are essential. In this study, we explore the possibility for such conversations through participatory monitoring practices around energy technology, using geoengineering projects as an example. Despite...

CEL BADANIA: Zidentyfikowanie kluczowych czynników, które determinują rozwój gospodarki wodorowej w Polsce w perspektywie najbliższych dwóch dekad.

Raport przedstawia analizy na reprezentatywnej próbie dla mieszkańców Polski pod względem płci, wykształcenia i miejsca zamieszkania. Celem badania było uzyskanie informacji na temat wiedzy Polek i Polaków na temat wodoru i jego wykorzystania w energetyce.

Nowadays, when fighting climate change and other global environmental issues is of utmost urgency, the understanding of what drives pro-environmental behaviour has become a hot topic in both academic and practical circles. Some earlier studies unravelled the complexity of the underlying factors of pro-environmental conduct, yet more studies are nee...

In this article, we explore individuals’ pro-environmental innovative behavior (PEIB) as one of the conditions for developing more sustainable cities. We assume that energy-efficient sustainable cities are those where people behave sustainably. Hence, studying the conditions of human behavior is essential for understanding the transformation of cit...

With the purpose of analysing if case-based teaching methodology could improve higher education students’ knowledge about sustainable development, a quasi-experimental study was conducted in an international project (PASSION—Partnership for Sustainable Development and Social Innovation) and in five countries (Greece, Poland, Portugal and Sweden). C...

With the purpose of analysing if case-based teaching methodology could improve higher education students’ knowledge about sustainable development, a quasi-experimental study was conducted in an international project (PASSION—Partnership for Sustainable Development and Social Innovation) and in five countries (Greece, Poland, Portugal and Sweden). C...

This volume takes an ecofeminist perspective in analysing societal changes related to energy transition, with a focus on Upper Silesia in Europe, following the closure of coal-mining industries in the region. It provides both a macro and micro view of how energy transition in societies built around an energy industry can lead to major shifts in soc...

This chapter aims to present the attitudes, beliefs, and opinions on environmental issues (ecology) and energy transition through the views of women living in the mining region. Based on qualitative interviews and participatory research with Silesian women, I tackle the issue of environmental and ecological awareness using Giddens’ concepts of disc...

The chapter introduces a gender and energy nexus and presents an Upper Silesia case study of the energy transition as viewed locally. The main aim of this text is to explain some of the historical and industrial contexts of the “black gold” region when seen through a gender and ecofeminist lens. We present the recent processes of deindustrializatio...

The concept of energy justice (EJ) has gained importance in discussions about energy transitions, mainly due to a growing number of researchers working on the social implications of greenhouse gas emission reductions. At the moment, EJ is defined as a framework for discussing fairness in energy systems and operates as an umbrella term to signify va...

In 2019, TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) and ERBS (Erasmus Research and Business Support, Erasmus University, Rotterdam) developed the so-called participatory monitoring approach as part of the SECURe project, which was tested and enriched during a two-day design training workshop in March 2019 (Task 6.3). This report...

Wybuch pandemii COVID-19 oraz jej konsekwencje zdominowały w marcu i kwietniu 2020 polski dyskurs publiczny – oficjalny i nieoficjalny, polityczny i społeczny, systemowy i codzienny, naukowy, kulturowy i ekonomiczny. W warunkach zamknięcia kraju koronawirus podporządkował sobie w szczególności media społecznościowe, a społeczne potrzeby (po)informo...

The objective of this article is to critically and reflectively describe the idea of education for sustainable development (ESD) in the context of higher education. We tackle the possibilities of implementation some useful skills and competences in the process of students' sociological training. Firstly, the concept of ESD is discussed and its fram...

The Partnership for Sustainable Development and Social Innovation (PASSION) is an international project involving six European countries (Poland: Collegium Civitas, Greece: Agricultural (NAWA). PASSION aims to evaluate selected, previously developed, teaching materials on sustainability education, analyse pro-environmental (PEB) and pro-innovative...

One of the main challenges in sustainability discourse is its multifaceted nature often requiring that many different disciplines must cooperate in order to achieve progress. This issue also concerns sustainability education. In the article, we highlighted the experiences from the international cooperation of university teachers and researchers wit...

This paper seeks to contribute to existing debates on the relationship between democracy and environmental quality. More specifically, we aim to provide nuance and insight into the question as to whether democratic regimes are better equipped to protect the environment. After critically reviewing theoretical arguments and providing an overview of e...

Sustainability is not something that can be taught. This may be an odd statement to start off a foreword to a book that seeks to enhance the capacities of the academic teachers and trainers to conduct interdisciplinary education that focuses on sustainability. Ultimately a more sustainable world calls upon our ability to learn to continuously resp...

Cycling in urban environments provides many benefits to people. However, planning of cycling infrastructures in large cities faces numerous challenges and requires better understanding of both the factors enabling cycling as well as barriers to it, determined by particular local context. While there is a growing body of research that tackle the bik...

Cycling in urban environments provides many benefits to people. However, planning of cycling infrastructures in large cities faces numerous challenges and requires better understanding of both the factors enabling cycling as well as barriers to it, determined by particular local context. While there is a growing body of research that tackle the bik...

Background Cycling in urban environments is seen as an activity providing many environmental, social and health benefits. There is potential for significant mode shifts towards cycling in many cities, and a better understanding of enabling factors and barriers could help guide more targeted cycle-promoting policies. Eastern-European cities such as...

The aim of the studies was an assessment of social impacts of nuclear powerplant programme in Poland (NPP) with special consideration of public participation process. Poland is one of the few European countries without nuclear power, however in 2009 the government has started to develop nuclear power programme. For the country, which has just enter...

The aim of the article is to present the idea of environmental democracy in the context of implementing Nuclear Power Plant Program (NPPs) in Poland. Studies of peoples' perceptions of technological risk is crucial in respect to the NPPs impacts' assessment that is why the quantitative analysis of existing data (public opinion polls from 2009-2016)...

Article tackles the idea of environmental and participatory democracy in Poland. Due to Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters known as the Aarhus Convention people should be involved in decisions concerning environment and energy issues in the country. All large i...

Przedmiotem tego opracowania jest podejmowanie decyzji dotyczą-cych inwestycji infrastrukturalnych w Polsce. Z tego punktu widzenia szcze-gólnie istotne są nie tak dawno przyjęte regulacje związane z udziałem społe-czeństwa w szeroko rozumianej ochronie środowiska, dotyczące dostępu spo-łeczeństwa do informacji o środowisku i udziału społeczeństwa...

Qualitative and quantitative research are embedded in different epistemological traditions and typically differ in tools applied in data analysis. The computer software was mostly used within quantitative design to carry out statistical analysis. Among qualitative researchers there is a widespread opinion that computer software applied in qualitati...