TY - JOUR
T1 - Current work on social sustainability in the built environment
AU - Overgaard, Nanna Brøgger
AU - Bjerregaard Jensen, Lotte M.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Sustainability is based on the United Nation’s (UN) Brundtland Report, which defines economic, social and environmental factors that can ensure long-term economic viability while maintaining an environmental balance and showing commitment to socially desirable practices. Great focus has been on integrating environmental and economic factors into the project processes of construction. There is substantial potential in developing a strategic process to ensure that social sustainability is systematically incorporated into a project equally with economic and environmental factors. Research in the field is scarce and suggests that social sustainability is a secondary parameter even though it is integrated in building projects today. There is a tendency that decisions made regarding which social sustainability aspects is to be integrated in a project is based on experience from previous projects. There is a need of a strategic approach on how to handle and work with social sustainability that is based on more than experience. Can decisions be informed by quantifiable information about social sustainability as is the case with economic and environmental sustainability?
AB - Sustainability is based on the United Nation’s (UN) Brundtland Report, which defines economic, social and environmental factors that can ensure long-term economic viability while maintaining an environmental balance and showing commitment to socially desirable practices. Great focus has been on integrating environmental and economic factors into the project processes of construction. There is substantial potential in developing a strategic process to ensure that social sustainability is systematically incorporated into a project equally with economic and environmental factors. Research in the field is scarce and suggests that social sustainability is a secondary parameter even though it is integrated in building projects today. There is a tendency that decisions made regarding which social sustainability aspects is to be integrated in a project is based on experience from previous projects. There is a need of a strategic approach on how to handle and work with social sustainability that is based on more than experience. Can decisions be informed by quantifiable information about social sustainability as is the case with economic and environmental sustainability?
KW - Sustainability
KW - Social sustainability
KW - Economic sustainability
KW - Environmental sustainability
KW - Assessment tools
KW - Certification systems
U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/225/1/012063
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/225/1/012063
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1755-1307
VL - 225
JO - I O P Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - I O P Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
ER -