Exploring the possibility of a systematic and generic approach to social sustainability

Merlina Missimer; Karl Henrik Robrt; Gran Broman; Harald Sverdrup

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.02.024

Exploring the possibility of a systematic and generic approach to social sustainability

Merlina Missimer^*, Karl Henrik Robrt, Gran Broman, Harald Sverdrup

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Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

There is a growing need to understand how existing concepts and tools for sustainability relate to each other and to a robust, trans-disciplinary systems perspective for sustainability. As a response, a group of scientists, including some of the authors, have developed a framework based on backcasting from sustainability principles over the last 20 years the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural Step Framework. The intent of this study is to scrutinize the existing framework as regards its social dimension. The study demonstrates dichotomies and lack of robustness and proposes a way forward to make the social dimension of the FSSD more cohesive as well as operational.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1107-1112
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Cleaner Production
Volume	18
Issue number	10-11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.02.024
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010

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Funding Information:
Financial support from the Real Change Funding Partners – VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), Tillväxtverket (Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth), FORMAS (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning), Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environment Protection Agency) and Energimyndigheten (Swedish Energy Agency) – is gratefully acknowledged.

Other keywords

Framework for strategic sustainable development
Social sustainability
Sustainability principles
System analysis
The natural step framework

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