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. 2022;34(1):67.
doi: 10.1186/s12302-022-00641-z. Epub 2022 Aug 9.

Social values and sustainable development: community experiences

Walter Leal Filho  1   2 , Vanessa Levesque  3 , Subarna Sivapalan  4 , Amanda Lange Salvia  5 , Barbara Fritzen  5 , Ronald Deckert  6 , Valerija Kozlova  7 , Todd Jared LeVasseur  8 , Kay Emblen-Perry  9 , Ulisses M Azeiteiro  10 , Arminda Paço  11 , Bruno Borsari  12 , Chris Shiel  13
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Social values and sustainable development: community experiences

Walter Leal Filho et al. Environ Sci Eur. 2022.

Abstract

Background: This paper presents a review of the literature and trends related to social values and sustainable development and describes a set of case studies from a variety of community-based projects which illustrate the advantages that social values bring about as part of efforts to promote sustainability. Three approaches were used to develop this study: a bibliometric analysis of the topic "social values and sustainable development", an analysis of case studies that concretely present community projects addressing social values and sustainability, and the development of a framework linking up bibliometric clusters and the cases studies.

Results: While the bibliometric analysis revealed clusters where social values are strongly connected with sustainable development, the case studies indicated the lack of a common terminology and understanding of the relation between social values, sustainable development, and community-based projects.

Conclusions: The study concludes by suggesting a set of measures that could be deployed to better take social values into account when planning policies or making decisions related to community projects.

Keywords: Community; Initiatives; Projects; Social values; Sustainability.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Output of the co-occurrence analysis
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Classification of case studies according to the proposed clusters of social values research topics (red: ecosystem management; green: rural development; blue: business sustainability; yellow: ethics and moral values)
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