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Assessing Social Sustainability Contributions to the structuring and empirical application of an assessment framework

2022Tese de doutoramento Acesso aberto
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datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais
dc.contributor.authorMartins, João José de Almeida
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-27T18:22:23Z
dc.date.available2026-01-27T18:22:23Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe main object of this doctoral thesis is the concept of social sustainability and the search for its operationalization in a framework of social sustainability assessment, a framework not only reactive, but guiding and proactive, which assesses, but also promotes, the sustainability of planned actions (policies, plans, programs, or projects), from a critical and emancipatory perspective. The process of constructing the dominant concept of sustainable development, its main characteristics, and the structural contradictions it entails has been analysed. The analysis was then centred on the notion of social sustainability, in search of a clarification of its meaning. From the critical analysis of various proposals for the definition and operationalization of the notion, as well as other perspectives, conceptions and proposals that, not directly addressing social sustainability, deal, in fact, with its problematics, such as human rights approach, the capability approach of Amartya Sen and Marta Nussbaum, the perspective of buen vivir, and the updating of the Aristotelian concept of flourishing developed by critical realism current, resulted a proposal of social sustainability as a relational process of human flourishing, and as a process of caring, comprising an actual dimension and an utopian dimension, understanding as utopia, following Karl Manheim, the search for the realization of desirable, emancipatory and achievable futures, in a horizon of possibilities. This proposal was configured in a set of principles of social sustainability and a set of social sustainability objectives, resulting from those principles, presented as an open proposal, and seeking to integrate and express the articulation of the individual and relational dimensions, structure and agency, objective and subjective. This set of principles and objectives, of an ethical nature, constitutes a matrix basis for the normative orientation of practical action and, concomitantly, of reference of values for the assessment of the social sustainability of planned actions. Based on the field of sustainability assessment, a framework for assessing and promoting the social sustainability of projects is proposed, with contributions at the level of theoretical foundations, the methodological process, the dimensions of social sustainability, the definition of the scope and the assessment criteria.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/21071
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/13427
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectSocial sustainability
dc.subjectSocial sustainability assessment
dc.subjectSustainable development
dc.titleAssessing Social Sustainability Contributions to the structuring and empirical application of an assessment frameworkeng
dc.typedoctoral thesis
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_b1a7d7d4d402bcce

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Versão em língua inglesa da tese do Doutoramento em Sustentabilidade Social e Desenvolvimento, com o título 'Avaliar a Sustentabilidade Social - Contributos para a estruturação e aplicação empírica de um modelo de avaliação' (2022), disponível em: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/13427
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