Laurea LibGuides: Sustainability: Societal level

Societal sustainability focuses on creating and maintaining healthy, equitable, and resilient communities. It involves ensuring that social systems, institutions, and environments support the well-being of current and future generations.

From this section you can find materials on:

Circular economy in societal level
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations
Societal resilience
Useful resources
Future thinking
Variety of books about the theme.

Books about societal sustainability

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations

The Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere. The 17 Goals were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which set out a 15-year plan to achieve the Goals.

Today, progress is being made in many places, but, overall, action to meet the Goals is not yet advancing at the speed or scale required. 2020 needs to usher in a decade of ambitious action to deliver the Goals by 2030. (United Nations)

Useful resources:

Articles:

Blincoe, K. 2022. The Turning Has Started. In: Achieving Sustainability: The Ultimate Human Challenge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10023-9_8
Fuso Nerini, F., Mazzucato, M., Rockström, J., van Asselt, H., Hall, J. W., Matos, S., . . . Sachs, J. 2024. Extending the Sustainable Development Goals to 2050 — a road map. Nature (London), 630(8017), pp. 555-558. doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01754-6. OPEN ACCESS.
Ranjbari, M., Esfandabadi, Z. S., Zanetti, M. C., Scagnelli, S. D., Siebers, P. O., Aghbashlo, M., ... & Tabatabaei, M. 2021. Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 297, 126660.
Rodriguez-Anton, J. M., Rubio-Andrada, L., Celemín-Pedroche, M. S. & Alonso-Almeida, M. D. M. 2019. Analysis of the relations between circular economy and sustainable development goals. International journal of sustainable development and world ecology, 26(8), pp. 708-720. doi:10.1080/13504509.2019.1666754
Sachs, J. D., Schmidt-Traub, G., Mazzucato, M., Messner, D., Nakicenovic, N., & Rockström, J. 2019. Six transformations to achieve the sustainable development goals. Nature sustainability, 2(9), 805-814. OPEN ACCESS.
Schroeder, P., Anggraeni, K., & Weber, U. 2019. The relevance of circular economy practices to the sustainable development goals. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 23(1), 77-95. OPEN ACCESS.
Wamsler, C., Bristow, J. 2022. At the intersection of mind and climate change: integrating inner dimensions of climate change into policymaking and practice. Climatic Change 173, 7 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03398-9. OPEN ACCESS.

Circular economy in societal level

Articles and books:

Kirchherr, J., Piscicelli, L., Bour, R., Kostense-Smit, E., Muller, J., Huibrechtse-Truijens, A., & Hekkert, M. 2018. Barriers to the circular economy: Evidence from the European Union (EU). Ecological economics, 150, 264-272.
Lammi, M., Anttonen, M., Bamford, I., Antikainen, M., & Naumanen, M. 2019. Turning Finland into a Country of Circular Economy: What Kind of a Process of Change Should We Seek?. In International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (pp. 215-228). Springer, Singapore.
Mies, A. & Gold, S. 2021. Mapping the social dimension of the circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production Volume 321, 25 October 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128960
Repo, P., Anttonen, M., Mykkänen, J., & Lammi, M. 2018. Lack of congruence between European citizen perspectives and policies on circular economy. European Journal of Sustainable Development, 7(1), 249-249. OPEN ACCESS.
Trica, C. L., Banacu, C. S., & Busu, M. 2019. Environmental factors and sustainability of the circular economy model at the European Union level. Sustainability, 11(4), 1114. OPEN ACCESS.
Van Bueren, B. J. A., Iyer-Raniga, U., Leenders, M. A. A. M. & Argus, K. 2021. Comprehensiveness of circular economy assessments of regions: A systematic review at the macro-level. Environmental research letters, 16(10), p. 103001. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac209c. OPEN ACCESS.