The Social Aspects of Sustainable Development within the Limitations of Functional Needs and Systemic Approach
Management of Business and Culture for Sustainable Development: Abstracts 2011
Jānis Vanags, Georgs Mote, Ilona Butāne, Helma Jirgena

The progressing degradation of the surrounding environment and the decrease of the regeneration capacity of the renewable resources to a great extent relate to social problems of global nature - poverty prevailing in the world, high infant mortality, low educational level, growing diversity of income levels and the prevailing injustice in satisfying the basic needs of individuals. The main problem of the study is the uncertainty of the content of the notion of sustainable social development and its uncertainty within the conception of sustainable development. The object of the study is the aspects of sustainable social development and how they fit into a consolidated system of sustainable development. The study identifies the major social aspects within sustainable development, updates the content of the notion of sustainable social development, reveals its relation with satisfying the basic needs and the other key components of sustainable development, as well as proves the social importance of sustainable development. A great attention is focused on satisfaction of needs of individuals and their impact on sustainable development and the absolute limits of natural resources, revealing the necessity to include into the sustainable development conception the basic needs, that fill the sustainability idea with a definite content and enable taking certain measures to minimize the destructive human presence to the surrounding environment. The authors point out the necessity of a systemic approach to solutions of social sustainability problems. The developed sustainable development models reveal the key elements of the sustainable social system and their functional relation to be used in decision making for promotion of social sustainability in a specific institutional environment.


Atslēgas vārdi
social sustainability, social aspects, primary needs, systemic approach

Vanags, J., Mote, G., Butāne, I., Jirgena, H. The Social Aspects of Sustainable Development within the Limitations of Functional Needs and Systemic Approach. No: Management of Business and Culture for Sustainable Development: Abstracts, Latvija, Rīga, 18.-20. maijs, 2011. Rīga: Ekonomikas un kultūras augstskola, 2011, 83.-84.lpp.

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