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Special Issue "Social Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Roope Husgafvel
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Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Interests: sustainability; social sustainability; circular economy; sustainability management, assessment and indicators; sustainability handprints; life cycle thinking; life cycle sustainability assessment; sustainable development; sustainable forest management; social life cycle assessment; social organizational life cycle assessment; organizational life cycle assessment; life cycle assessment; industrial ecology and symbiosis; environmental management; sustainable engineering; wood technology and bioproducts; sustainable construction and buildings

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Social sustainability is a major part of both sustainability and sustainable development, including its various relationships and interfaces with other parts. It has an essential role, for example, in the promotion of more sustainable societies, in the integration of social aspects into organizational management practices and in sustainability transformations and transitions as well as in addressing numerous sustainability challenges and in achieving progress towards sustainability in the context of social/society–environment relationships and interfaces. Furthermore, it is a highly interesting and important area of sustainability management and assessment that deserves much more attention. Several approaches have been developed and proposed both in private and public sectors as well as within science, but much more can be done to promote social sustainability both as a matter of management and assessment and as a specific area of sustainability research. This Special Issue welcomes research articles focusing on social sustainability including various contexts and particularly encourages studies on social sustainability management and assessment approaches.       

Suggested topics:

  • Social sustainability
  • Social sustainability management, assessment and indicators
  • Social sustainability handprints and associated handprint thinking and assessment approaches
  • Social life cycle assessment and social organizational life cycle assessment
  • Social/society–environment relationships and interfaces
  • Social sustainability in the context of sustainability handprints, life cycle sustainability assessment, organizational life cycle assessment, the UN SDGs, circular economy, product design/sustainability, sustainable production/consumption, buildings/construction, sustainable engineering, sustainability science, sustainable forest management, sustainability challenges/transformations, social innovations/impacts, planning/policy/governance, business/corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development law, sustainable cities and urban development or education for sustainability

Dr. Roope Husgafvel
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • social sustainability
  • social sustainability management, assessment and indicators
  • social sustainability handprint
  • social life cycle assessment
  • social organisational life cycle assessment
  • life cycle sustainability assessment
  • sustainability handprint
  • social/society–environment

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The Three E’s Revisited: How Do Community-Based Organizations Define Sustainable Communities and Their Role in Pursuit of?
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Tony G. Reames
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Nathaniel S. Wright
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8825; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168825 - 06 Aug 2021
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A sustainable community seeks to protect and enhance the environment, meet social needs, and promote economic success. On average, local governments lack meaningfully connecting their environmental and economic sustainability efforts to equity and social justice. Community-based organizations (CBOs) have emerged as local leaders [...] Read more.
A sustainable community seeks to protect and enhance the environment, meet social needs, and promote economic success. On average, local governments lack meaningfully connecting their environmental and economic sustainability efforts to equity and social justice. Community-based organizations (CBOs) have emerged as local leaders with a growing capacity for pursuing community sustainability. Based on data from a national survey National Community Action Partnership member organizations, this study explores (1) how CBO leaders define sustainable communities; (2) how important each of the three pillars of sustainability are to their mission; and (3) with what organizations do CBOs collaborate in their pursuit of sustainable communities. A content analysis of responses to an open-ended query to define sustainable communities revealed a significant focus on the social equity pillar of sustainability which is closely linked to economic sustainability. Similarly, CBO leaders ranked social equity and economic sustainability as the highest priority for their core mission. Lastly, CBO leaders heavily engaged in local collaboration in their sustainable community efforts. Therefore, serious pursuit of sustainable cities and communities must shift from a go-at-it-alone, centralized government approach to more inclusive, collaborative efforts that take advantage of the economic-social equity sustainability focus of CBOs in both planning and implementation. Full article
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Gender Wage Gaps in Brazilian Companies Listed in the Ibovespa Index: A Critical Analysis
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Gustavo Tietz Cazeri
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Izabela Simon Rampasso
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Walter Leal Filho
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Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves Quelhas
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Milena Pavan Serafim
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Rosley Anholon
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6571; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126571 - 09 Jun 2021
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This article aims to perform a critical analysis of wage gaps according to gender from information provided by sustainability reports that were disseminated by Brazilian companies listed in the Ibovespa index. To conduct this analysis, bibliographic research was performed, followed by a deductive [...] Read more.
This article aims to perform a critical analysis of wage gaps according to gender from information provided by sustainability reports that were disseminated by Brazilian companies listed in the Ibovespa index. To conduct this analysis, bibliographic research was performed, followed by a deductive content analysis of sustainability reports from Brazilian companies listed in the Ibovespa index, considering item 405-2 of the Global Reporting Initiative standard. From this analysis, it was possible to show that only some companies disseminate detailed information related to the gender wage ratio. Many companies do not present this data or present it superficially. The findings of this research present important insights that may be used to motivate debates on the topic. Full article
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Synergistic Interactions of SDGs in Food Supply Chains: A Review of Responsible Consumption and Production
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Jubin Jacob-John
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Clare D’Souza
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Tim Marjoribanks
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Stephen Singaraju
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8809; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168809 - 06 Aug 2021
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In light of the significance of Food Supply Chains (FSCs) in attaining the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a greater focus on synergistic interactions between these SDGs is called for. Although there is research within this area, the impact on the [...] Read more.
In light of the significance of Food Supply Chains (FSCs) in attaining the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a greater focus on synergistic interactions between these SDGs is called for. Although there is research within this area, the impact on the interactions of responsible consumption and production for supply chains is either fragmented or inconclusive. Implementing supply chain solutions to achieve one goal could potentially support or inhibit progress in other goals; thus, before implementing such solutions, a better understanding of the interrelationships between SDGs is required. A systematic review is conducted to evidence the current nature of the understanding of these interrelationships within the food supply chain context by focusing on Responsible Consumption and Production, which refers to SDG number 12. This review is conducted through a filtering process, where 171 peer-reviewed articles addressing different SDGs were analysed and synthesized. In addition to a detailed summary of the recent literature on the SDGs and their interrelationships, as addressed in the literature, this paper establishes the limitations in the existing literature and research challenges surrounding the SDGs. This article contributes a conceptual framework that identifies stakeholder and consumer pressures as enablers of synergistic interactions between SDGs, thus directing managerial and regulatory interventions through a holistic perspective of SDGs. Finally, the review discusses contradictory findings on SDGs and provides future research avenues. Full article
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