Post by Frazier Benya, Program Officer in the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES) The World Business Council for Sustainable Development…
By Brett Tempest, UNC Charlotte Civil and Environmental Engineering An emerging field of study for engineers illuminates specialized methods for design and construction in developing…
By Frazier Benya, National Academy of Engineering Defining social sustainability is an area of particular interest to those who attended the first network meeting and…
We’re excited to be able to post the videos from our 2013 INSS meeting in May, including the keynote address and several of the case…
Guest post by Cris Surbeck, U Mississippi Department of Civil Engineering During the first conference of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability, we thought defining social…
Guest post by Sarah Bell Image Some rights reserved by Niecieden Sustainable development is often depicted as a Venn diagram, with sustainability at the intersection of society, the…
Guest post by Brian Burke Image: Some rights reserved by CGIAR Climate I came to the first INSS meeting wondering what it meant to put the adjective “social”…
Guest post by Rachelle Hollander, National Academy of Engineering and INSS Steering Committee The issue of what is social sustainability provided considerable puzzlement at our…
Guest post by Paul Thompson In The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics, I rely heavily on Jefferson’s example for my basic model of sustainability,…
Post by Craig Farkos Of the three sustainability pillars, the social component presents the most challenging criteria for demonstrating sustainable project evolution. Defining quantifiable criteria…
