Social sustainability

Form our present perception of knowledge society, it is of interest to emphasize the role of the knowledge society in future development of human society. The life support systems are essential pillars of human society development. In this respect, knowledge society represents a new paradigm for future development and it is strongly correlated to sustainable development. Traditional ‘hard’ social sustainability themes such as employment and poverty alleviation are increasingly being complemented or replaced by ‘soft’ and less measurable concepts such as happiness well being and sense of place. The development of new sustainability indicators is increasingly focused on measuring emerging themes rather than on improving the assessment of more traditional concepts such as equity and fairnees sustainability metrics are designed to consolidate measures of economic, environmental and social performance of any system. It can be understood as a pattern of the available knowledge about system and their performance. The link between knowledge and sustainability makes it possible for us to visualise that the sustainability paradigm is the essential frame for the knowledge society. Throughout human history, the knowledge structure has been formed leading to the formation of its division into the specific branches devoted to individual entities. This sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs. A sustainable knowledge society has to meet a number of diverse criteria among these are: sustainability discourse, economic models charateristics of the emerging knowledge society. In order to have metric for these criteria the different indicators are designed capable of identifying the goals of the research agenda. To clarify our understanding of the sustainability of knowledge society, it is of interest to define sustainability as the dynamic state of a complex system characterised by the criteria comprising the social, instituutional and environmental contribution to global long term human welfare based on their specific and unique set of inherent goals and functions. The sustainability concepts of the “Brundtland-Report” and the “Rio Documents” call for a combination of ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects of social development. Human resource development is increasingly expected to play a facilitative role in corporate social responsibility sustainability and ethics in organization. It is suggested that all of the domains of sustainability are social.