Renouf Publishing Co. Ltd.
embedded image
Renouf
Online Bookstore

 
Quick Search
for: 
in 
 
Advanced search
F.A.Q.
Featured books
New in print
Best Sellers
President's picks
Online publications

Shopping cart/Checkout  [0]
Sign-up for eUpdates
Social Sustainability in Development
Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century

by Patrick Barron, Louise Cord, José Cuesta, Sabina Espinoza, Greg Larson, and Michael Woolcock

Series:New Frontiers of Social Policy
ISBN 9781464819469
Code: #211946

Publication year: 2023

Cdn: $64.00; US: $43.95
Paperback
Language: English
140 pages
Add to cart
All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development can promote societies where all people can thrive, but the change process can be complex, challenging, and socially contentious.

Continued progress toward sustainable development is not guaranteed. The current overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, rising levels of conflict, and a global economic slowdown are inflaming long-standing challenges―exacerbating inequality and deep-rooted systemic inequities. Addressing these challenges will require social sustainability in addition to economic and environmental sustainability.

Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century seeks to advance the concept of social sustainability and sharpen its analytical foundations. The book emphasizes social sustainability's four key components: social cohesion, inclusion, resilience, and process legitimacy. It posits that:
  • Social sustainability increases when more people feel part of the development process and believe that they and their descendants will benefit from it.
  • Communities and societies that are more socially sustainable are more willing and able to work together to overcome challenges, deliver public goods, and allocate scarce resources in ways perceived to be legitimate and fair so that all people may thrive over time.
By identifying interventions that work to promote the components of social sustainability and highlighting the evidence of their links to key development outcomes, this book provides a foundation for using social sustainability to help address the many challenges of our time.
Social Sustainability in Development
Cdn: $64.00; US: $43.95
World Bank BookID: 129790 Added: 2023.5.20