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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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One of the challenges for this project will be to define what we mean by social sustainability. Some claim it is not definable. We hope…
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The INSS project was funded in 2012 by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Research Coordination Networks (RCN) program….