Sustainability and social justice

The importance of sustainability results from the marginal benefits for human development through which incomes, due to the process of redistribution, support human development. Human development is understood as the measure in which individual reaches a certain living standard by satisfying his subjective, objective and factual needs generated by the economic, social, politic and cultural environment, and becoming aware of the ways of their satisfaction, adjusting himself to the existing and potential resources. This means that human development is achieved if concepts such as social justice and economic justice are implemented. (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Arasli