scholarly journals Provisions for Urban Social Sustainability in City Planning: A conceptual framework

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabbir Ahamed Azra Zainab
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Sustainability

scholarly journals Building Resilience through Collective Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Audrey O. Esteban
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Continuous Exposure ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Engagement

The basic premise of this study is that the collective engagement of the citizens in a disaster-prone city helps transform their city to become resilient. Many urban managers encourage citizen participation by providing a venue for citizens to engage in public issues, including those of city planning and management. Citizen participation is important in building a cohesive community, empowering its citizens, and enhancing their sense of ownership of their community and city as a whole. The research underscores that collective engagement and action have an influence in the transformation of a city. The study will use the concept of resilience in the socio-ecological systems context to build a conceptual framework on the transformation process. Cities are ecological systems with both natural- and built-environment characteristics. Cities are complex multidimensional systems with both the social (human) and the ecological (natural and built environments) tied together. The changing landscape and continuous exposure to disturbances put pressure on the social and ecological systems of a city. The paper discusses collective engagement as a systemic process for how a disaster-prone city transforms itself to become disaster resilient. Using the concept of panarchy as a process of adaptation and transformation, the paper will build a conceptual framework that highlights collectiveness as a way to become resilient. The paper underscores that collective engagement and action have an influence in the transformation of a city.

scholarly journals The Role of Collaborative Healthcare in Improving Social Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahereh Maghsoudi ◽  
Rosalía Cascón-Pereira ◽  
Ana Beatriz Hernández Lara
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Distribution

Healthcare systems around the world face both increasing demands and inequality in service distribution. The current trend is for collaboration among healthcare actors, named as collaborative healthcare, in order to address challenges such as these to improve the social sustainability of the system. That is to provide accessible and equitable healthcare services to meet people’s health and well-being needs. Based on an integrative literature review, this study aims at crafting a conceptual framework to explore how collaborative healthcare networks contribute to social sustainability and the specific actors involved in these collaborations. It identifies relationships between different collaborative healthcare networks and social sustainability. Interprofessional networks have been the most studied in relation to social sustainability. Communication and sharing information or knowledge have been identified as used collaborative healthcare practices. This study contributes theoretically by considering a new model of the healthcare organization in which collaborative networks play a central role in improving social sustainability. In terms of practical implications, the study provides managers and policy makers with investment insights on a range of collaborative networks and practices.

scholarly journals Theorizing Social Sustainability and Justice in Marine Spatial Planning: Democracy, Diversity, and Equity

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Saunders ◽  
Michael Gilek ◽  
Anda Ikauniece ◽  
Ralph Voma Tafon ◽  
Kira Gee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
Sustainability Framework ◽  
Critical Literature

This article elaborates a conceptual framework to examine social sustainability in marine spatial planning (MSP). Based on a critical literature review of key texts on social sustainability in MSP and the broader sustainable development literature we show the need to elaborate a cogent and comprehensive approach for the analysis and pursuit of social sustainability linked to the sea. We then theorize social sustainability by developing a conceptual framework through integrating three dimensions: Recognition, Representation and Distribution. While these three social sustainability/justice features clearly overlap and are interdependent in practice, the conceptual thinking underpinning each of them is distinctive and when taken together they contribute towards conceiving social sustainability as a pillar of sustainability. Our approach can support an analysis/evaluation of MSP in that, first, its broad scope and adaptability makes it suitable to examine the wide range of claims, demands, and concerns that are likely to be encountered across different practical MSP settings. Second, it acknowledges the opportunities and challenges of assessing, implementing, and achieving social justice within a broader sustainability framework.

Enhancing the effects of university education for sustainable development on social sustainability: the role of social capital and real-world learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1451-1476
Author(s):  
Marta Rey-Garcia ◽  
Vanessa Mato-Santiso
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
University Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real World Learning

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the roles that social capital and real-world learning may play in enhancing the effects of university education for sustainable development (ESD) on social sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual framework that identifies the plausible effects of university ESD on social sustainability along three outcome dimensions (think-act-leverage), broadening desirable program learning outcomes and proposing enabling roles for social capital and real-world learning, is substantiated and validated through qualitative insights from a focus group. The framework serves to structure a survey to alumni of a postgraduate program in sustainability (2011–2018). Hierarchical clustering analysis is used to identify differences in perceived, sustainability-related effects of the program on direct beneficiaries and their relationship with stakeholders in their communities. Findings Implementation of real-world learning in partnership with organizations in the community that actively involves alumni not only extends desirable effects beyond individual program learning outcomes and outside the academia but may also renew them over time. Practical implications University administrators should foster the creation of new social capital of students and alumni and their commitment with service learning and other credit-bearing opportunities as actionable enablers to enhance the social sustainability effects of university ESD. Originality/value The paper contributes to a dual theoretical and empirical void related to the effects of university ESD on the social dimension of sustainability through the proposal of a conceptual framework and quantitative assessment of the dynamic effects of university ESD at the local level.

scholarly journals Social Sustainability in an Ageing Chinese Society: Towards an Integrative Conceptual Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yafei Liu ◽  
Martin Dijst ◽  
Stan Geertman ◽  
Can Cui
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Chinese Society

The social benefits in sport city planning: a conceptual framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1199-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nicholas Pye ◽  
Kristine Toohey ◽  
Graham Cuskelly
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
The Social

Project management for social good

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-726
Author(s):  
Ashish Goel ◽  
L.S. Ganesh ◽  
Arshinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Good

PurposeRecent research on construction project management (CPM) envisions addressing wider social good while delivering value to the funding organizations. It is complemented by a growing body of knowledge on social sustainability in construction projects. These two literature streams are currently scattered and there is a lack of holistic guidance on integrating social sustainability with CPM. The current study addresses this knowledge gap through a critical review of these two bodies of literature and thereby proposing a conceptual framework for socially sustainable CPM.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual modelling approach, involving sequential steps of knowledge acquisition, and knowledge abstraction and representation, has been used. Knowledge acquisition was based on a systematic search and short-listing of research articles and knowledge abstraction was performed through thematic analysis of the 81 shortlisted articles. The categories abstracted through thematic analysis were integrated and presented as the framework.FindingsA framework for socially sustainable CPM, consisting of four social sustainability characteristics and six areas of social sustainability integration in CPM (SSI-CPM), has been proposed. It presents possibilities of integrating social concerns in CPM processes at various levels – ranging from permanent firms that provide resources to the temporary (project) organization that delivers value.Originality/valueThis study seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice of realizing social good through construction projects. To this end, a conceptual framework has been proposed along with an agenda for future research encompassing social sustainability and CPM.

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