Emily Routbort
Mr. Roddy
GPHC R
20 September 2018
Social Sustainability
Addressing social sustainability is a challenge for many places in the world. Social sustainability works to reduce factors that negatively affect human social well being (p. 61 in the reading). Some examples of social sustainability issues are corruption, unfit healthcare and education, disempowerment of women, and social inequality. These problems should be dealt with after fulfilling basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and rest. From another standpoint, you might find to achieve economic and environmental sustainability, you must achieve social sustainability before other proceeding to solve economic and environmental issues. My reasoning for this is because you should have a strong established base that you can work off of (where everyone is working in harmony) so we can then proceed to work on other issues. In most of the world though, this is not the case (considering that you place social sustainability at the top of the pyramid (self actualization)).
I believe that social sustainability issues should be dealt at a local level and eventually a country level (in the U.S.). Each city is different and they have different needs for improvement of social sustainability. Take West U for example (a pretty wealthy and well developed city), once you drive out further in the state you find that there are other cities that are not as well developed. This is important because each city has different social sustainability issues. Furthermore, West U’s plans for improvement of social sustainability are probably more developed and maybe a step ahead of other cities further out in Texas. In conclusion, once each city works out their social sustainability issues, the state as a whole can then work to help other states that are struggling in that area. Eventually we can work as a nation to help everyone.
Domestic Violence Survivors Access to Shelter - Social Sustainability
Anna Kaplan Mr. Roddy GPHC Domestic Violence Survivors Access to Shelter - Social Sustainability Many people in the country suffer from and escape dangerous domestic violence situations in their own homes. These people often bring their children with them to escape the threat, but once they have left their home they are faced with a new problem: homelessness. Many of these people have no where to go so they try to go to a type of shelter or living facility, but many places discriminate against domestic violence survivors. In Rhode Island, 64.8% of domestic violence shelter requests were unmet. This being the highest amount in the country in 2013. Many states don't even have enough fair laws protecting people from being discriminated while trying to obtain shelter. As president, I would propose that all states must have at least three shelters that cater to particularly this need. These shelters would also have an emergency shelter service to help survivors in immediate need. ...
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