Social representations about sustainable development

The Perspectives of Residents of Small Islands' Cities

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ID3754727
AutoresAna Fuentes Sánchez (0000-0002-0766-4980, Universidade dos Açores), Ana Moura Arroz (0000-0001-8279-4470, Universidade dos Açores), Rosalina Gabriel (0000-0002-3550-8010, Universidade dos Açores)
Año2021
Volumen24
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmbiente & sociedade (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1414-753X • E-ISSN: 1809-4422
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-4422asoc20180212r1vu2021l3ao
OpenAlexW3207837683
SciELOS1414-753X2021000100327
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas20

Sustainable development (SD) is one of the goals of contemporary society, underlining the need of its collective redefinition and social and personal appropriation. For this, it is relevant to analyze how individuals understand the process of building sustainability. The social representation of the SD of an intentional sample of 64 stakeholders from five Azorean cities was explored through prototypical and similarity analysis of a free association of words. The data were analyzed using the programs Evocation 2003 and IRAMUTEQ and interpreted according to the structural approach of social representations. The resulting representation identifies the three classic pillars of the SD, as well as its main challenges and strategic options. The economic pillar held a central place, interconnecting both with the environmental and the social pillars, although the latter showed less emphasis. It is important to keep monitoring the evolution of this SD representation, that appears to be more sophisticated than other notions found in similar studies

Appropriation · Epistemology · Evocation · Pillar · Political science · Politics · Social representation · Social science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity

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