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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability at London Metropolitan University

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: social
Qualification: MSc
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
Master of Science (MSc)
University website: www.londonmet.ac.uk

Definitions and quotes

Social
Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.
Sustainability
Sustainability (from 'sustain' and 'ability') is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the following interconnected domains: environment, economic and social. Sub-domains of sustainable development have been considered also: cultural, technological and political. Sustainable development, is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Brundtland Report for the World Commission on Environment and Development (1992) introduced the term of sustainable development.
Sustainability
The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.
Patrick Dixon, Futurewise (1998)
Responsibility
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", Man and Superman (1903).
Sustainability
We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP [gross domestic product].
Paul Hawken Top 10 Myths About Sustainability at mindfully.org, 2009.
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