Social Sustainability

See Sustainability, Social.

  Social Sustainability Indicator

An indicator which can be used to help better understand how sustainability can be practiced and evaluated. A range of examples included within this document include: • Accessibility, • Community Benefit of Service, • Diversity of Use, • Employee Quality Rating, • Local Users, • Population Pressure, • Service Usage, • Stakeholder Engagement, • Vandalism, • Working Conditions.

  Sportswashing

The use of sports events, whether hosting or sponsoring, to direct attention away from practices within an organisation which often have a negative impact on their reputation.

  Stakeholder Engagement

A Social Sustainability Indicator. • Brief Description: A qualitative measure of the active rather than passive engagement and participation of stakeholders.

  Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

An assessment process that identifies environmental considerations and incorporates them into policies, plans and programmes (PPP).

  Substance Flow Analysis

An analysis of the regional flows of specific chemicals or substances and their losses to the environment. The aim being a reduction in the load of the analysed substance being put into the environment.

  Sustain

To keep going; to support; to maintain for a period of time. This word is often seen as the starting point for definitions of sustainable or sustainability, however, these latter two terms have a much deeper and richer meaning which involves varied impacts on the environmental space in which we live and work. In general conversation within the grounds care industry the term sustainable is often incorrectly applied to a pitch or surface which is being sustained with applied maintenance practices.

  Sustainability

The ability to maintain a continuous and beneficial condition over a long period of time and typically living within the limits of a natural system. This can either be considered an outcome of a process rather than the process itself, or a sustainable process that is continually achieving sustainability as part of the activities of a process.

  Sustainability Appraisal

An appraisal of the economic, environmental and social effects of a plan from the outset of the preparation process to allow decisions to be made that accord with sustainable development.

  Sustainability Assessment Method or Tool

A means of, or tool for, assessing the sustainability of a plan, activity or service. Examples may be specific techniques, such as Life Cycle Costing, or processes such as Strategic Environmental Assessment.