Social sustainability: an exploratory analysis of its definition, assessment methods metrics and tools

By Andrea Colantonio. 2007

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Measuring links between cultural heritage management and sustainable urban development: An overview of global monitoring tools (2017, background): “The sustainable development (SD) paradigm is broadening and includingmore social and intangible themes; governance, quality of life, environmental psychology, green space, and natural and cultural heritage are reaching policy-making attention (Colantonio, 2007).”
How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability (2016, background): “In short, “social sustainability concerns how individuals, communities and societies live with each other and set out to achieve the objectives of development models they have chosen for themselves also taking into account the physical boundaries of their places and planet Earth as a whole” [90].”
Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Using Products to Change Consumer Behaviour (2011, background): “The social sphere of sustainable design is less so (Colantonio, 2007) and as such warrants further explanation.”
The social pillar of sustainable development: a literature review and framework for policy analysis (2012, background): “For example, preferences for neoliberalism or the European social model will result in different social objectives (Colantonio, 2007).”