Lukas Kala

The interest in re-implementing agroforestry (AF) in European agriculture due to its environmental benefits has been growing exponentially. We reviewed the historical background and the current state (extent, farmers’ perception, legislative support, and barriers) to evaluate the future perspectives of AF in Czechia by identifying the key factors h...

Czech agriculture is dealing with the consequences of climate change. Agroforestry cultures are being discursively reintroduced for better adaptability and resilience, with the first practical explorations seen in the field. Scholars have been working with farmers and regional stakeholders to establish a baseline for making agroforestry policy viab...

This book follows the successful titles “The Colourful and the Green: Chapters on Voluntary Simplicity” and “The Half-Hearted and the Hesitant: Chapters on Ecological Luxury.” The author poses the question of why, at a time of continuing devastation of nature, people’s interest in nature conservation has been decreasing. Are the media to blame or i...

Voluntary simplicity is usually seen as an alternative social movement that is responding to the current social and environmental crisis within affluent societies. Many scholars draw on Inglehart’s concept of post-materialism and consider voluntary simplicity to be a way of limiting one’s consumption in order to free oneself and seek satisfaction i...

The intergenerational reproduction of values and lifestyles has been at the centre of attention for the social sciences for several decades. However, only rarely has this topic been examined from the perspective of environmentally friendly lifestyles. In this article, we build on unique longitudinal research that includes generations of parents and...

This paper examines profiles on online dating sites for environmentally aware singles identifying as ‘green single’. The research was motivated by these research questions: What kind of people use these sites to search for a partner? How do green singles earn ‘green distinction’, the markings of a green identity? The main objective of this research...

English summary of the book "The Faithful and the Reasonable: Chapters on Ecological Foolishness" [Věrní a rozumní: kapitoly o ekologické zpozdilosti]

“The Faithful and the Reasonable: Chapters on Ecological Foolishness” follows the successful titles “The Colourful and the Green: Chapters on Voluntary Simplicity” and “The Half-Hearted and the Hesitant: Chapters on Ecological Luxury.” The author poses the question of why, at a time of continuing devastation of nature, people’s interest in nature c...

The aim of our paper is to broaden the international discussion on environmentally friendly lifestyles. In most of the previous research, via a survey technique involving the self-nomination of participants, voluntary simplifiers are presented as part of a social movement typically connected with an urban environment. Our paper follows the third wa...

Studie zabývající se šířením ekologicky příznivých hodnot a způsobů života bývají mnohdy založeny spíše na přáních než na empirických datech. Lze vůbec doufat, že se tzv. „dobrovolná skromnost“ předává mezi generacemi? Pokud ano, tak jakým způsobem? Příspěvek je založen na datech získaných ve třech vlnách longitudinálního výzkumu prof. Hany Librové...

Teze o šíření a předávání pro-environmentálních hodnot jako základu pro jednání šetrné k přírodě je u řady autorů podložena spíše přáním a nadějí, než empirickým potvrzením. Jak se však vyvíjí pro-environmentální hodnoty v rámci lidského života, jak se lidé vyrovnávají s potřebami a nároky různých fází životní dráhy a společenskými změnami? A přede...

Population research in Western countries shows a rising number of singles living in oneperson households. The increase in one-person households is likely to accelerate consumption, deplete resources and degrade nature. Current studies show that solo-living consumes more land, energy, goods and materials per person than living in shared housing. How...

At the beginning of our research project about everyday life of solo--living people ( Jamieson, Simpson 2013) based on the methods of episodic ethnography and biographically oriented interviews (Pink 2006; Kusenbach 2003) there was a quite simple theoretical paradox. Home as one of the central cultural categories of modernity is commonly associated...

Tento text přináší poznatky ohledně fungování skupiny RozLEŤSe, brněnského systému místního výměnného obchodu (Local Exchange Trading System, LETS). LETS představují tzv. doplňkový peněžní systém s vlastní měnou, díky kterému se může místní komunita stát do určité míry nezávislou na mezinárodní ekonomice. Skrze ekonomickou lokalizaci by měly LETS n...

V rámci tohoto textu se zabýváme souvislostmi životního způsobu klientů zelených seznamek v kontextu individualizace společnosti a environmentálních problémů. Na základě výsledků kvantitativně-kvalitativní studie představujeme specifickou skupinu environmentálně zaměřených singles hledajících podobně hodnotově orientované partnery. Přinášíme kritic...

This paper presents information about the operation of RozLEŤSe, a LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) network, based in Brno, Czech Republic. LETS are complementary monetary systems in which local community networks attempt to emancipate themselves from the international economy by using their own currency. LETS are supposed to promote sustainabl...

This study inquires into aspects of lifestyle of the clients of environmental dating sites in the context of individualization and environmental issues. Findings are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses of one thousand randomly selected profiles of a specific group of environmentallyfocused singles searching for partners with similar...