Social Sustainability, Past and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Sustainability, Past and Future write by Sander van der Leeuw. This book was released on 2020-02-13. Social Sustainability, Past and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.
Social Sustainability for Business
Social Sustainability for Business - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Sustainability for Business write by Jerry A. Carbo. This book was released on 2017-08-16. Social Sustainability for Business available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard, accepted "business model," with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable business model for workers, consumers, communities, society, the planet, or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems. The authors argue that the current commercial system depletes natural resources, denigrates human rights, and inhibits positive social and technological innovation. To address these issues, they focus on societal goals—such as a sustainable planet, meeting human rights of workers, and safe products for consumers—and outline steps that organizations and individuals must take to achieve them. Readers will gain insight into the psychological barriers to and influences on sustainable behavior. They will also learn how reconsidering corporate social responsibility and business ethics can stop and reverse the destruction of a profit-based approach. Cases on modern examples of sustainability or lack thereof explain how establishing and maintaining a socially sustainable business system can protect the environment, meet the rights of its people, and ensure that their needs are met tomorrow. End-of-chapter and end-of-case discussion questions will help students in sustainability classes to think critically about the practical impact of the topics discussed.
Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability
Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability write by Jesse Dillard. This book was released on 2008-07-01. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity. Scholars and practitioners are making progress toward environmental and economic sustainability, but we have very little understanding of the social dimension of sustainability. This volume is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary effort to identify the key elements of social sustainability through an examination of what motivates its pursuit and the conditions that promote or detract from its achievement. Included are theoretical and empirical pieces; examination of international and local efforts; discussions highlighting experiences in both the developing and industrialized nations; and a substantial focus on business practices. Contributors are grounded in sociology, economics, business administration, public administration, public health, geography, education and natural resource management.
Urban Social Sustainability
Urban Social Sustainability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Social Sustainability write by M. Reza Shirazi. This book was released on 2019-01-22. Urban Social Sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability dimension that needs to be taken into consideration, and incorporated into a comprehensive and cohesive ‘urban agenda’ that is built on three principles of recognition, integration, and monitoring. This should be achieved through a dialogical and reflexive process of decision-making. To achieve sustainable communities, social sustainability should form the basis of a constructive dialogue and be interlinked with other areas of sustainable development. This book underlines the urgency of approaching social sustainability as an urban agenda and goes on to make suggestions about its formulation. Urban Social Sustainability consists of original contributions from academics and experts within the field and explores the significance of social sustainability from different perspectives. Areas covered include urban policy, transportation and mobility, urban space and architectural form, housing, urban heritage, neighbourhood development, and urban governance. Drawing on case studies from a number of countries and world regions the book presents a multifaceted and interdisciplinary understanding from social sustainability in urban settings, and provides practitioners and policy makers with innovative recommendations to achieve more socially sustainable urban environment.
Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development
Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development write by Cathy Baldwin. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures. They need to grow rapidly stronger in order to cope, adapt and flourish. Strong social networks and social cohesion can be more important for a community’s resilience than the actual physical structures of a city. But how can urban planning and design support these critical collective social strengths? This book offers blue sky thinking from the applied social and behavioural sciences, and urban planning. It looks at case studies from 14 countries around the world – including India, the USA, South Africa, Indonesia, the UK and New Zealand – focusing on initiatives for housing, public space and transport stops, and also natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. Building on these insights, the authors propose a 'gold standard': a socially aware planning process and policy recommendation for those drawing up city sustainability and climate change resilience strategies, and urban developers looking to build climate-proof infrastructure and spaces. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, resilience studies and climate change policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in related fields.
