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Question: A time for renewal: developing a sustainable community, work and family interface

Answer: This special issue provides a selection of papers presented at the 7th Community Work and Family Conference, which was held in Milan, Italy, on May 24-27, 2017. More than 160 scholars from various disciplines and from different countries all over the world gathered at the Conference to engage in a discussion on the development of a sustainable community, work and family interface.
The concept of sustainable development has gradually come to the forefront of policy debate since the late 1980s/early 1990s, against a backdrop of rapidly increasing global ecological challenges (WCED, 1987). Even though a straightforward and commonly agreed definition still does not exist, sustainable development has soon become a popular term and a prominent policy goal. Based on the recognition of the limits and threats to the environment of the prevalent modes of production and consumption, the concept has evolved over time around the necessity of a paradigm shift, which could prevent the depletion and loss of resources and reconcile economic growth with environmental protection and human well-being (UNDP, 2011, 2013). In these terms, promoting and achieving sustainable development requires creating and maintaining a set of resources so that the quality of the environment, in both its ecological and human dimensions, could be ensured and preserved, for present and future generations. Accordingly, the conventional notion of sustainable development encompasses a few primary concerns, that range from safeguarding the environment to satisfying basic human needs and promoting inter- and intra-generational equity (Holden et al., 2014).

(Source: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, 12 Jun 2021)

Source Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2018.1541275