scholarly journals Social Innovation for a Just Sustainable Development: Integrating the Wellbeing of Future People

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9013
Author(s):  
Rita Vasconcellos Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Future People ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
Innovation Practices

Social innovation has gained increased attention as a mechanism for sustainable development. As the Brundtland Commission highlights, the improvement of present conditions should not compromise future generations’ needs. So far, (social) sustainable development has mostly focused on the amelioration of contemporary people’s wellbeing, relegating its duties towards future generations to second place. Given this, I consider it necessary to (re-)direct social innovation towards the promotion of the wellbeing of future people. I propose the concept of irreplaceable goods, a notion deriving from a strong sustainability perspective, which could then be integrated into social innovation practices related to sustainable development. Focusing on guaranteeing, at least, sufficient fruition of certain goods and resources, I devise this concept as a governance tool for steering development actions towards intergenerational justice, driven by social innovation action. In this article, we firstly delineate the relations between sustainable development and social innovation, while focusing on ‘value-driven’ social innovation. Afterward, I shortly introduce strong sustainability as support for future generations’ wellbeing. Furthermore, I develop the concept of irreplaceable goods as a governance tool in social innovation practices and finalize with a discussion on the application of irreplaceable goods in the assessment of sustainable development strategies.

scholarly journals W stronę ekonomii zrównoważonego rozwoju

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Current Paradigm

Perceiving nature by contemporary social and economical systems, including the domination nowadays of capitalism and socialism, has led to an ecological crisis. There are at least several characteristics of traditional economical theories that make it impossible to realize the sustainable development of the anthroposphere, i.e. the view of a human being, the violation of rules of inter- and intragenerational justice, the way of valuing the environment combined with the underestimation of the significance of natural resources, the belief that technology is able to substitute all natural resources crucial to humanity, planning the short-term goals. Qe attitudes in economics appeared which demand replacing the current paradigm with a new one – that of strong sustainability. The characteristic feature of the economics of sustainable development is observing the ethical rules of inter- and intergenerational justice and responsibility.

Crowdsourcing Social Innovation

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Musa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Tony Blair ◽  
The Common

The growing awareness of humanity's finite resources and recognition of the limitations of one-off projects are prompting step changes in development planning. Sustainable development addresses the limitations of current practices; its aim is to achieve the triple bottom line of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, meeting the needs of present society without compromising resources for future generations. Collective intelligence is considered by both Charles Leadbeater (former advisor to Tony Blair) and MIT as one of the most powerful ways to tackle complex problems, like climate change. This chapter explores the principles of crowdsourcing, its applications and the main trends. It presents theories, practices and examples of the use of crowdsourcing to innovate in the area of sustainable development for the common good. It announces the rise of collective brain-power to the challenge of creating better and more effective forms of civic and social engagement to solve problems on a world scale.

The Appreciative Inquiry Methodology as an Instrument for the Analysis of the Sustainability of Companies

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Crishelen Kurezyn Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
A Company

There are currently various social innovation practices and efforts to address sustainability and its impact on the world. One of them is the use of the appreciative inquiry methodology (AIM), which results in applying a SOAR analysis focused on sustainability and discovering the strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results of a company. Thus, the company plays a fundamental role through corporate social responsibility (CSR) that seeks to carry out concrete actions that benefit society. This chapter will define what this methodology consists of, its scope, uses, and initiatives that have adopted it as part of their practices for the measurement and promotion of sustainability. One of the main results of using this methodology is to share success stories about innovations that meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through organizations such as AIM2Flourish and B Corp.

scholarly journals Cyberprzemoc i niepełnosprawność jako ograniczenia wdrażania rozwoju zrównoważonego

2011 ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Violetta Korporowicz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
Negative Phenomena

The aim of sustainable development is to take into an account such an economic development, which simultaneously addresses into the problem of improving the environment in strategies which will lead to the higher standard of life. Hence the question of intergenerational justice,in which it is essential that future generations have an equal, in relation to the contemporary, access to natural resources and equal opportunities for the development of the life standard. However, implementation of such sustainable development might be limited by the negative phenomena of the social support. These are e.g. cyberbullying and disability. Cyberbullying is a way of force with the use of mass-media - primarily the Internet and mobile phones. Disability is an another social phenomenon having negative implications for the implementation of sustainable development. It is true that in Poland the number of people with disabilities is consistently declining, but it still applies to thousands of people with reduced efficiency of operations in numerous areas of life, and therefore requires a special approach in everyday life and in education and the labor market.

Crowdsourcing Social Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Musa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Tony Blair ◽  
The Common

The growing awareness of humanity's finite resources and recognition of the limitations of one-off projects are prompting step changes in development planning. Sustainable development addresses the limitations of current practices; its aim is to achieve the triple bottom line of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, meeting the needs of present society without compromising resources for future generations. Collective intelligence is considered by both Charles Leadbeater (former advisor to Tony Blair) and MIT as one of the most powerful ways to tackle complex problems, like climate change. This chapter explores the principles of crowdsourcing, its applications and the main trends. It presents theories, practices and examples of the use of crowdsourcing to innovate in the area of sustainable development for the common good. It announces the rise of collective brain-power to the challenge of creating better and more effective forms of civic and social engagement to solve problems on a world scale.

Our obligations to future generations: the limits of intergenerational justice and the necessity of the ethics of metaphysics

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 229-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranay Sanklecha
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Future People

AbstractTheories of intergenerational justice are a very common and popular way to conceptualise the obligations currently living people may have to future generations. After briefly pointing out that these theories presuppose certain views about the existence, number and identity of future people, I argue that the presuppositions must themselves be ethically investigated, and that theories of intergenerational justice lack the theoretical resources to be able to do this. On that basis, I claim it is necessary to do the ‘ethics of metaphysics’ in order to fully comprehend what, if anything, we may owe future generations. I defend these claims against some important objections.

Crowdsourcing Social Innovation

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 517-540
Author(s):  
Emanuele Musa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Tony Blair ◽  
The Common

The growing awareness of humanity's finite resources and recognition of the limitations of one-off projects are prompting step changes in development planning. Sustainable development addresses the limitations of current practices; its aim is to achieve the triple bottom line of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, meeting the needs of present society without compromising resources for future generations. Collective intelligence is considered by both Charles Leadbeater (former advisor to Tony Blair) and MIT as one of the most powerful ways to tackle complex problems, like climate change. This chapter explores the principles of crowdsourcing, its applications and the main trends. It presents theories, practices and examples of the use of crowdsourcing to innovate in the area of sustainable development for the common good. It announces the rise of collective brain-power to the challenge of creating better and more effective forms of civic and social engagement to solve problems on a world scale.

Justice Between Generations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Meijers
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Future People ◽  
Cooperative Scheme ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Mutual Advantage ◽  
Social Importance

A wide range of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy fall under the heading of “intergenerational justice,” such as questions of justice between the young and the old, obligations to more-or-less distant past and future generations, generational sovereignty, and the boundaries of democratic decision-making.These issues deserve our attention first because they are of great social importance. Solving the challenges raised by aging, stable pension funding, and increasing healthcare costs, for example, requires a view on what justice between age groups demands. Climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation, population growth, and the like, raise serious concerns about the conditions under which future people will have to live. What kind of world should we bequest to future generations?Second, this debate has theoretical significance. Questions of intergenerational justice force reconsideration of the fundamental commitments (on scope, pattern, site, and currency) of existing moral and political theories. The age-group debate has led to fundamental questions about the pattern of distributive justice: Should we care about people’s lives considered as whole being equally good? This has implausible implications. Can existing accounts be modified to avoid such problematic consequences?Justice between nonoverlapping generations raises a different set of questions. One important worry is about the pattern of intergenerational justice—are future generations owed equality, or should intergenerational justice be cast in terms of sufficiency? Another issue is the currency of intergenerational justice: what kind of goods should be transferred? Perhaps the most puzzling worry resulting from this debate translates into a worry about scope: do obligations of justice extend to future people? Most conventional views on the scope of justice—those that focus on shared coercive institutions, a common culture, a cooperative scheme for mutual advantage—cannot easily be extended to include future generations. Even humanity-based views, which seem most hospitable to the inclusion of future generations, are confronted with what Parfit called the nonidentity problem, which results from the fact that future people are mostly possible people: because of the lack of a fixed identity of future people, it is often impossible to harm them in the comparative sense.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEAK AND STRONG SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MODELS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajiyev Ayaz Amir oglu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Strong Sustainability ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

The concepts of weak and strong sustainable development are used in the analy­sis of sustainable development. At the scientific level, the concepts of sustai­nability and sustainable development have been tried in different ways, and over time, dif­ferent view aspects have emerged. As is generally known, sustainable development sees the best way to ensure the well-being of future generations in providing the next generation with the same resources as today. At this point, there is some discussion about the nature of the resource that needs to be protected. This discussion to­uching on the relationship between human capital and natural capital has led to the emergence of the concepts of weak and strong sustainability, i.e., models of weak and strong sustainable development.The emergence of weak and strong sustainable development models, the basics and principles that differs them from each other, as well as the study and analysis of the arguments of the supporters of these approaches, are of great relevance. Analyzing in the article the positions of those, who support strong sustainability, it is con­c­luded that the replacement of development characterized by quantitative growth with qualitative sustainable development to increase welfare is one of the important principles of strong sus­tainable development.

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