Question

Indefinite economic growth is no longer plausible, so how do we shift societal planning from being designed to fulfill consumptive desires to fulfilling critical community needs, to improve the quality of life for all? Identify five key societal changes that could make living sustainablity more possible and describe how they could be enacted.

Answer 1

Social sustainability is specifying and managing positive and negative impacts of systems, processes,organizations and activities on people's life .this includes health and social equity ,human rights,labour rights, practices and decent working conditions ,social justice ,community development,product responsibility etc.

Five key societal changes -

Social acceptabilty- minimizing risk ,maximizing transparency and ensuring effective stakeholder participation

Social well being -maintaining or improving prosperity ,safety health and food secuirty

Energy security and external trade- Reducing dependence on foreign risky energy import,improving the balance of trade between import and export for energy related material.

Resource conservation -minimizing use of non renewable resource

Rural development and workforce training - creating job opportunities etc.

These all could make living sustainability.