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Conference Paper: Is environmental sustainability achieved at the expense of social sustainability?
| Title | Is environmental sustainability achieved at the expense of social sustainability? |
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| Issue Date | 2021 |
| Citation | 2021 Urban Affairs Association Symposium on Confronting COVID, Racial Injustice, and Economic Inequality, Virtual Conference, 23 April 2021 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Working from home as a possible work mode is tested by COVID19, and is taking root as a new form of work culture. The same for online retail service. A major implication would be reduction in the demand of land for office and commercial uses, and transport energy consumption and pollution. This trend will, on the one hand, help reduce the need to source new land and energy for development and improves environmental quality, thus fostering environmental sustainability. However, on the other hand, it reduces human interaction, diminishes the nature of human as social beings, and deprives the chances of social capital accumulation by individuals, thus weakening the bases of social support. Hence, can we argue that while COVID19 facilitates environmental sustainability, it is achieved at the expense of social sustainability? |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/312367 |
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| dc.contributor.author | Chiu, RLH | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-25T06:08:09Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-25T06:08:09Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | 2021 Urban Affairs Association Symposium on Confronting COVID, Racial Injustice, and Economic Inequality, Virtual Conference, 23 April 2021 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/312367 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Working from home as a possible work mode is tested by COVID19, and is taking root as a new form of work culture. The same for online retail service. A major implication would be reduction in the demand of land for office and commercial uses, and transport energy consumption and pollution. This trend will, on the one hand, help reduce the need to source new land and energy for development and improves environmental quality, thus fostering environmental sustainability. However, on the other hand, it reduces human interaction, diminishes the nature of human as social beings, and deprives the chances of social capital accumulation by individuals, thus weakening the bases of social support. Hence, can we argue that while COVID19 facilitates environmental sustainability, it is achieved at the expense of social sustainability? | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2021 Urban Affairs Association Symposium on Confronting COVID, Racial Injustice, and Economic Inequality | - |
| dc.title | Is environmental sustainability achieved at the expense of social sustainability? | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Chiu, RLH: rlhchiu@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Chiu, RLH=rp00997 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 326178 | - |