Social Sustainability

All things people

Social Sustainability is about the people across the entire value-chain of the business. Suppliers, the people impacted by your suppliers all the way down the chain on communities who are impacted by the end-of-life of your product or service. The premise being that if the company didn’t exist, certain negative outcomes wouldn’t have occurred and vice versa, if the company didn’t exist, potentially positive economic outcomes might not have developed.

The resources and links mentioned are here:

• Scaling Impact - This book was integral in presenting the research and analysis to social programmes that have succeeded and failed all around the world. A highly recommended read, one of the topics covered why
• Interview  on the impact of the ‘green revolution on communities and the environment in Africa