In “Social Sustainability: towards some definitions,” McKenzie identifies several attempts to define social sustainability and concludes it generally to be, “a positive condition within communities, and a process within communities that can achieve that condition.” This definition is supplemented with a list of corresponding principles, including:
• equity of access to key services
• equity between generations
• a system of relations valuing disparate cultures
• political participation of citizens, particularly at a local level
• a sense of community ownership
• a system for transmitting awareness of social sustainability from one
• mechanisms for a community to fulfill its
own needs where possible
• political advocacy to meet needs that cannot be met by community action