1. What is Social Sustainability?
Social sustainability incorporates social capital with conventional concepts of environment. It helps identify businesses impact on people both on the positive and negative aspects. This part will gie a brief into the concept and understand why social awareness is important.
Social sustainability incorporates social capital with conventional concepts of environment. It consist of ‘social awareness’[1] which includes the following aspects:
- the ability to take the perspective of others and empathize with everyone, including those from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
- to understand social and ethical norms for behavior and to recognize family, offices, and community resources and support.
- to acknowledge, value, support, and respond to the cultural values, traditions, communication, learning styles, contributions, and relational patterns of all.
Five things to know about Social Sustainability and Inclusion [2]
- Social sustainability is about inclusive and resilient societies where citizens have a voice and institutions respond.
- Social inclusion is about creating opportunities for all people and addressing deep rooted systemic inequalities.
- Empowerment is about supporting people to be drivers of their own solutions
- Creating resilient societies requires working in the most fragile and difficult environments.
- The environmental and social framework is an integral part of social sustainability.
