Social sustainability: making energy transitions fair to the people
Daniela Setton, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Berliner Strasse, Potsdam, Germany
Abstract
One of the greatest challenges on the path toward a sustainable society is the question of how to achieve the necessary broad acceptance and active participation of all sections of society. This chapter shows how an application-oriented concept of social sustainability can contribute to creating the knowledge base that is needed to meet this challenge. To this end, social sustainability will be developed as a specific research perspective with regard to a concrete socio-ecological transformation process. On this basis, it will be possible to create an ...
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