Track 6c. Social sustainability: impacts, threats and opportunities

 

Track chairs:

Evandro Mateus Moretto. Institute of Energy and Environment - IEE, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - EACH, University of São Paulo - USP, São Paulo, Brazil.

Sara Moreno Pires. UCILeR University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

 

Contacts: evandromm@usp.br; sarap@fd.uc.pt

 

Goals and objectives of the track

What is meant by social sustainability? How to take into account the fundamental changes in the society–nature relationship over the past decades? The notion of social sustainability raises critical debates and questions relating to the viability of social and cultural aspects of societies and to the multidimensional aspects of the past, present and future relationship between society and nature. This offers multiple opportunities for social theory-building and its practice, motivating an intensive social, scientific and political debate over the biggest global environmental and social challenges of our time. Societies across the globe reveal sharp differences in their evolution, global inequalities are increasing in developed and developing countries and severe threats to human rights are spreading in an increasingly globalised, interdependent and interconnected world. Requirements for innovative social and economic solutions towards new models of production and consumption and more just and safe environment are urgent. This track seeks to examine and debate some social transformations and their wider implications to make theoretical, concrete progresses and changes in addressing global environmental challenges and the sustainability of our society and economy.

Areas and potential topics in which contributions are sought include:

  • Methodologies for the analysis of justice and sustainability of socio-ecological systems
  • The concept of a just society – national and international – conflicting analytical frameworks
  • Facets of unjust societies – nature of the distribution of assets and rewards
  • Economic inequality – causes, incidence and social impacts
  • Social stratification – causes, incidence and economic impacts
  • Economic and social inequality in traditional and modern societies – the effects of globalisation
  • Differential impacts of environmental degradation on the rich and the poor societies
  • Economic and social equality: the role of the state and the role of the market
  • Innovative economic and socio-ecological systems for sustainability
  • Critical reviews of national and international policies to achieve a more just society and community resilience
  • Social capital, human rights, and community development for sustainability
  • Quality of life, cultural diversity and intergenerational threats and opportunities.


 

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