- Title
- Social sustainability: a comparison of case studies in UK, USA and Australia
- Creator
- Mak, Michael Y.; Peacock, Clinton J.
- Relation
- 17th Annual Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference. Proceedings from the PRRES Conference - 2011 (Gold Coast, QLD 16-19 January, 2011)
- Relation
- http://www.prres.net
- Publisher
- Pacific Rim Real Estate Society
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Traditionally, the sustainable development concept emphasizes on environmental areas such as waste and recycling, energy efficiency, water resource, building design, carbon emission, and aims to eliminate negative environmental impact while continuing to be completely ecologically sustainable through skilful and sensitive design. However, contemporarily sustainable development also implies an improvement in the quality of life through education, justice, community participation, and recreation. Recently social sustainability has gained an increased awareness as a fundamental component of sustainable development to encompass human rights, labour rights, and corporate governance. The goals of social sustainability are that future generations should have the same or greater access to social resources as the current generation. This paper aims to reveal the level of focus a development has in meeting social sustainable goals, success factors for a development, and planning a development now and into the future from a socially orientated perspective. This paper examines the characteristics of social sustainable developments through the comparison of three case studies: the Thames Gateway in east of London, UK, the Sonoma Mountain Village in north of San Francisco, USA, and the New Rouse Hill in north-west of Sydney, Australia.
- Subject
- sustainable development; social sustainability; case study
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325522
- Identifier
- uon:25294
- Language
- eng
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