Empowering Designs: Steps Towards More Progressive Social Appraisal of Sustainability
Published by: STEPS Centre
The challenges of designing new frameworks for social appraisal aimed at sustainability and social justice are reviewed by this paper. Here, 'social appraisal' refers to the ways society gathers knowledges to inform policy decisions and discourse and a number of key features of potentially more empowering 'pathways' approaches are identified.