A Preliminary Investigation
into the Environmental and Social
Dimensions on the Sustainability Triple
Bottom Line
Franciele Lourenço and Osiris Canciglieri Júnior
1 Introduction
In recent years, human beings have caused unprecedented changes in ecosystems in
order to meet the most diverse demands of societies, and these changes have brought
benefits and harms to nature’s ability to serve. In consequence of productive resources
are limited and human needs are unlimited, several studies have been performed out in
search of balance, theoretically is caused and solved by Say’s Law—ability to balance
supply and demand, this when promoting the dialogue of the actors, then, something
a little utopia. Vasconcellos (2009) mentions that Say’s law is when “supply creates
its own demand”—translated by increased production, transformed into income for
workers and entrepreneurs, who would be spent on the purchase of other goods and
services.
However, this cycle becomes vicious, since companies need productive resources
to produce, people (human resources) have to work to get income and, consequently,
there is an imbalance, because needs and resources are limited.
Thereby, organizations are also forced to break paradigms, because new vision of
reality, of thoughts, perceptions and moral values, cultural and ethical values; which
seem to obtain common intentions that are not interrelated, for example, in 2015
the secretary general of the United Nations—UN, Ban Ki-moon, said that, when
talking about preserving the land, “we don’t have plan B or planet B”, we can’ forget
F. Lourenço (B) · O. C. Júnior
Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGEPS), Polytechnic School, Pontificial
Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Rua Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Prado Velho; CEP:
80.215-901, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
e-mail: francielelourenco@gmail.com
O. C. Júnior
e-mail: osiris.canciglieri@pucpr.br
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World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_28
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into the Environmental and Social
Dimensions on the Sustainability Triple
Bottom Line
Franciele Lourenço and Osiris Canciglieri Júnior
1 Introduction
In recent years, human beings have caused unprecedented changes in ecosystems in
order to meet the most diverse demands of societies, and these changes have brought
benefits and harms to nature’s ability to serve. In consequence of productive resources
are limited and human needs are unlimited, several studies have been performed out in
search of balance, theoretically is caused and solved by Say’s Law—ability to balance
supply and demand, this when promoting the dialogue of the actors, then, something
a little utopia. Vasconcellos (2009) mentions that Say’s law is when “supply creates
its own demand”—translated by increased production, transformed into income for
workers and entrepreneurs, who would be spent on the purchase of other goods and
services.
However, this cycle becomes vicious, since companies need productive resources
to produce, people (human resources) have to work to get income and, consequently,
there is an imbalance, because needs and resources are limited.
Thereby, organizations are also forced to break paradigms, because new vision of
reality, of thoughts, perceptions and moral values, cultural and ethical values; which
seem to obtain common intentions that are not interrelated, for example, in 2015
the secretary general of the United Nations—UN, Ban Ki-moon, said that, when
talking about preserving the land, “we don’t have plan B or planet B”, we can’ forget
F. Lourenço (B) · O. C. Júnior
Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGEPS), Polytechnic School, Pontificial
Catholic University of Parana (PUCPR), Rua Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Prado Velho; CEP:
80.215-901, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
e-mail: francielelourenco@gmail.com
O. C. Júnior
e-mail: osiris.canciglieri@pucpr.br
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development,
World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59975-1_28
425