SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPEMNT CONCEPT

Author(s):  
Wojciech GOLEŃSKI

Sustainable development constitutes a paradigm which is to respond to the risks of our times (environmental, social and economic ones). It is based on the necessity to use resources in a way which will not deprive future generations of them. Such a development seeks to improve the quality of life of the community while maintaining social equality, diversity and the wealth of natural resources. It can be perceived as a broader social change which Jeremy Rifkin called “the third industrial revolution”, and whose symptoms can be seen today. Within the scope of this concept, there is the social entrepreneurship that, through the market activities, focuses on the social mission. Such a mission may concern a number of issues, such as social re-integration, fighting exclusion, or environment protection. Taking into account the importance of human resources, the social capital and economic efficiency of these enterprises and simultaneously focusing on environmental efforts, constitute a practical dimension of the sustainable development in local communities. One of the social cooperatives operating in the Opole voivodship is a good example here.

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Antoni Skowroński

The article is about the conception of sustainable development settled in the context of cultural and civilization changes. It can be taken as an alternative to further civilization development and a new panorama, opening up perspectives for the further sustainable development of civilization. The conception is a global strategy of development. It relies on the including of the natural environment into the social and economic development of a region, country or, from a global perspective, of the whole world. It assumes a long-lasting improvement of the quality of life of the present and future generations which is integrally associated with environmental improvement. It also shows the necessity of the spiritual growth and changes of the material aims of the development into immaterial ones. In all these aims and assumptions, there are a lot of practical and mental problems in the sphere of sustainable development which retard and even make it impossible to put these conceptions effectively into life.


2011 ◽  
Vol 264-265 ◽  
pp. 1672-1677
Author(s):  
Fedali Yamina ◽  
Bourmada Noureddine ◽  
Mebarek Djebabra

The activities of companies are executed according to the integration of multiple internal and external tensions in different communities and various branches of industry. In this context, innovations seem necessary to remain effective and to adapt itself to the constant evolutions of the markets. Sustainable development can be an opportunity to throw policy of innovation and place the sustainable development in the heart of strategic reflection of the company. Therefore, it constitutes an indispensable asset to strengthen the dialogue and the opening on the word in which we evolve. The integration of the idea of durability in the food processing industry by the implementation of a common system of management of the risks according to the food codex and by means of the method HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control points) aims at ensuring a better quality of life through the implementation of actions centered on health, by the control of the food chains. Our contribution, which becomes integrated into context, consists in bringing to light the factor health as a pillar into interface with the other themes to know the social, the economy and the environment.


Author(s):  
Antonio Vico Mañas ◽  
Arnoldo De Hoyos ◽  
Bia Telles ◽  
Diego Conti

This paper looks forward to analyzing the society industrialization period, considering factors like consumption, urbanization, social changes, global capitalism and the modern society. Starting from the Industrial Revolution, the author discuss ideas, events and the evolution of the Sustainable Development principles in particular concerning and social concerns as a way to deal with challenges regarding quality of life on today’s megalopolis. For Governance purposes regarding Sustainability, it is suggested the creation of an international network forum with appropriate representatives from the triple bottom line of sustainable development.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiapeng Huang

In recent years, with the rapid development of global industrialization, people’s quality of life has improved, and people are no longer satisfied with the quality of goods and purposes, the majority of people even choose goods based on the packaging of goods which cause the situation of excessive packaging become serious. As an important part of manufacturing, packaging industry should emphasize the development of environmentally friendly packaging. Recognized as one of the most promising green packaging materials, paper packaging materials accounted for more than 40% of packaging materials, however, unsuitable production and recycling of paper packaging pose a threat to the environment and the social economy. For the sustainable development of the paper packaging industry, this essay put forward the concept of "green paper packaging" through literature research. This essay will introduce the proper production and recycling of green paper packaging materials, discuss the structural design of green paper packaging, and looking forward to the development direction of green paper packaging, and come to the conclusion that not only need we use new materials and environmental friendly packaging structures, but also we should attach importance to the production and the recycling of the packaging so as to make sure the entire life cycle of packaging does not harm the human body and the environment.


2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Cesar Vieira Pinheiro ◽  
Cecília Reis Amaral ◽  
Rosemeiry Melo Carvalho

A fruticultura irrigada é uma atividade que vem crescendo no Estado do Ceará, sobretudo em certas regiões favoráveis e entre estas regiões encontra-se o Baixo Jaguaribe, onde diversas empresas exploram a fruticultura irrigada e nesta pesquisa, avaliou-se os aspectos sociais e ambientais da atividade. Os aspectos sociais foram avaliados através de entrevistas com funcionários das empresas produtoras de frutas na região e estas focalizaram: serviços de educação e saúde nos municípios de residência, habitação, aspectos sanitários, posse de bens duráveis e emprego. Os cuidados ambientais das empresas foram avaliados com base em entrevistas com os técnicos responsáveis das empresas por este setor. Foram abordados nas entrevistas itens como: utilização de práticas de conservação do solo, existência de reserva legal na propriedade, controle de pragas e doenças, uso de fogo em atividade agropecuária, sistema de irrigação utilizado, entre outros. A partir das informações obtidas foram calculados dois sub-índices: um de qualidade de vida dos funcionários e outro de viabilidade ambiental. A partir desses dois sub-índices foi obtido um índice de viabilidade sócio-ambiental da fruticultura irrigada nas empresas e ambos apresentaram boa performance. Verificou-se que as condições de vida dos funcionários são adequadas e que, em geral, são tomados nas propriedades os principais cuidados ambientais necessários. Assim, a fruticultura irrigada vem sendo desenvolvida por empresas e estas tomam os cuidados ambientais necessários, com responsabilidade social. Palavras-chave: Agricultura Irrigada, Fruticultura, Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Abstract The irrigated fruit cultivation is an activity that has been growing in the State of Ceará, mainly in certain favourable areas. Among these areas, there is the Low Jaguaribe, where various enterprises explore the activity. To evaluate, therefore, whether the irrigated fruit cultivation developed in the region has been contributing for the sustainable development, this research tried to evaluate the social and environmental aspects of the activity. The social matters were evaluated through interviews with the workers of the enterprises that produce fruits in the region. Were interviewed people who worked directly in the production (cultivation, harvest and after harvest cares) because these are the majority of workers in these enterprises. The interviews included items such as: education and health public services in the municipalities of residence, housing, sanitary aspects, possession of lasting consumer goods and job. The environmental matters of the activity were evaluated through interviews with the responsible technicians in the enterprises visited. Items such as use of soil conservation practices, existence of legal reserve in the property, plagues and illnesses control, fire use in the agricultural activity, kind of irrigation system used, among others, were included in the interviews. Starting from these information, two indexes were calculated: one of workers’ quality of life and another of environmental viability. Starting from these two indexes, it was obtained an index of socio-environmental viability of the irrigated fruit cultivation in the region’s enterprises visited in the region as environmental and socially viable. Keywords:irrigated agriculture, irrigated fruit cultivation, sustainable development


2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 04021
Author(s):  
Eva Pongracz

Currently, in Europe as well as in V4 countries, more and more interest is noted in the social economy. It is the answer to the socio-economic consequences of globalization. We can consider social entrepreneurship to be a business of the future with social responsibility, which favors social mission before making a profit. It is a hybrid business model that brings innovation, promotes regional development and improves quality of life of the local population. The social entrepreneurship, with the creation of sustainable jobs, reduces unemployment, protects the environment, provides goods and services for which the state and the private sector are not interested. It applies participatory and democratic corporate governance, thereby increasing the responsibility of all stakeholders. In this paper we point out that the development of social economy and social entrepreneurship in Slovakia has its own specifics. The practice precedes the theory, which brings many problems and creates unfavourable conditions for development of social entrepreneurship. We identified weaknesses in the social economy sector and offered recommendations for practice, especially for representatives of public administration and legislators. Moreover, we consider the training of future employees, managers of social entrepreneurship, local government representatives, as well as the provision of information to the general public on this area as a key factor for the development of the concept of social economy. Information for the preparation of this paper was drawn from the laws, expert studies and economic literature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-309
Author(s):  
Mirosława Witkowska-Dąbrowska

The purpose of this study has been to identify the degree of sustainability in the development of the Province of Warmia and Mazury. The theoretical and empirical investigations were conducted between 2003-2014 based on data from the Local Data Bank. Using a comparative indicator method, 20 indicators were developed, with different directions of preference. The evaluation involves the concept of uniform preference, hence the higher the assessment indicator, the better the situation in the evaluated area unit. Our studies on the sustainable development of the Province of Warmia and Mazury suggest that the indicators measuring the environmental dimension and consequently the quality of life of the residents (in this aspect) score higher than the country's average values. It is also optimistic that some progress, however small, can be seen in this area based on the analyzed dynamics of changes.


Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 832
Author(s):  
Mauro Capocelli ◽  
Vincenzo Piemonte

Water is fundamental for the quality of both ecosystems and society, and plays a key role for energy and food production, a prerequisite for the sustainable development [...]


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7226
Author(s):  
Jill Nicholls ◽  
Adam Drewnowski

Balancing the social, economic and environmental priorities for public health is at the core of the United Nations (UN) approaches to sustainable development, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The four dimensions of sustainable diets are often presented as health, society, economics, and the environment. Although sustainable diet research has focused on health and the environment, the social and economic dimensions of sustainable diets and food systems should not be forgotten. Some research priorities and sociocultural indicators for sustainable healthy diets and food systems are outlined in this report. The present goal is to improve integration of the social dimension into research on food and nutrition security.


2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 1881-1885
Author(s):  
Chun Mei Zhang ◽  
Min Zhao ◽  
Xue Lv

In this paper, the indexes that are used to assess the influence of road construction on Inner Mongolia grassland have been proposed based on the environment protection perspective. The Analytic hierarchy process was employed to evaluate the importance of different indexes regarding to influence. These indexes would be used to provide information for decision making about road construction in order to achieve the sustainable development of grassland.


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