Exploring the Locus of Social
Sustainability Implementation: A South
Asian Perspective on Planning
for Sustainable Development
Usama Awan, Andrzej Kraslawski, Janne Huiskonen and Nazia Suleman
Abstract Social sustainability is one of the keys to sustainable development. The
social sustainability agenda is not easy to be achieved without implementing probuyer and pro- institutional policies. A sustainable development not only calls for
environmental and economic sustainability but also for social sustainability that is the
basis of sustainable development. Moreover, commonplace unsustainable consumption practices increasingly manifest in manufacturing firms in developing countries,
making sustainable development management failures highly visible and institutions relevant. We employee Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach
to identify the critical factors that hinder the implementation of social sustainability
performance. There exists a scarcity of investigations on appropriate planning regarding a global partnership for achieving SDGs in the area of sustainable development.
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the many practices that implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs), SDG3, SDG5 and SDG17 pose, and
contributes to sustainable development. To promote and meet the UNSD goals, it
proposes adopting buyer requirements, improving institutional related policies are
the most promising approaches to support and implementation of social sustainability. The aspects of social sustainability at manufacturing firms can be achieved
primarily by buyer collaboration and better institutional policies. social sustainability
has become a marketing tool and is becoming more important for all the companies,
U. Awan (B) · A. Kraslawski · J. Huiskonen
Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology,
Lappeenranta, Finland
e-mail: usama.awan@lut.fi
A. Kraslawski
e-mail: Andrzej.Kraslawski@lut.fi
J. Huiskonen
e-mail: janne.huiskonen@lut.fi
A. Kraslawski
Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz,
Poland
N. Suleman
Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Vehari, Pakistan
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_5
89
Sustainability Implementation: A South
Asian Perspective on Planning
for Sustainable Development
Usama Awan, Andrzej Kraslawski, Janne Huiskonen and Nazia Suleman
Abstract Social sustainability is one of the keys to sustainable development. The
social sustainability agenda is not easy to be achieved without implementing probuyer and pro- institutional policies. A sustainable development not only calls for
environmental and economic sustainability but also for social sustainability that is the
basis of sustainable development. Moreover, commonplace unsustainable consumption practices increasingly manifest in manufacturing firms in developing countries,
making sustainable development management failures highly visible and institutions relevant. We employee Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach
to identify the critical factors that hinder the implementation of social sustainability
performance. There exists a scarcity of investigations on appropriate planning regarding a global partnership for achieving SDGs in the area of sustainable development.
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the many practices that implementing sustainable development goals (SDGs), SDG3, SDG5 and SDG17 pose, and
contributes to sustainable development. To promote and meet the UNSD goals, it
proposes adopting buyer requirements, improving institutional related policies are
the most promising approaches to support and implementation of social sustainability. The aspects of social sustainability at manufacturing firms can be achieved
primarily by buyer collaboration and better institutional policies. social sustainability
has become a marketing tool and is becoming more important for all the companies,
U. Awan (B) · A. Kraslawski · J. Huiskonen
Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology,
Lappeenranta, Finland
e-mail: usama.awan@lut.fi
A. Kraslawski
e-mail: Andrzej.Kraslawski@lut.fi
J. Huiskonen
e-mail: janne.huiskonen@lut.fi
A. Kraslawski
Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz,
Poland
N. Suleman
Department of Humanities, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Vehari, Pakistan
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities and Sustainable Communities:
Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30306-8_5
89