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The paper looks into the social aspects of life cycle management (LCM) in relation to sustainable development. Sustainable development is regarded as a comprehensive set of strategies enabling the satisfaction of social, material and spiritual needs of people through economic tools and technology while respecting environmental limits. To make this possible in the global scale of the contemporary world, it is necessary to re-define their social and political institutions and processes at the local, regional and global level. Sustainable development is unthinkable not only without the balance in the environmental respect; the balance in the social and economic areas is of equal importance. Social responsibility can be viewed as a parallel to a philosophy in which businesses are committed to sustainable development. Promoting social responsibility within the business can influence activities in the product life cycle. Social aspects, such as safe workplaces or organisations protecting the rights of workers are becoming prominent with increasing frequency as modern requirements. The aim of the paper is to describe and introduce management tools and systems, if they exist, that enable a successful life cycle management with a focus on social aspects. Key issues in relation to LCM will be: Which social elements can be included in LCM? Which aspects are to be included in the social "pillar" of sustainable development? etc. The result should be an adequate approach integrating the social, environmental and economic aspects in LCM.

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the accountants' perspective in inclusivity in social aspects that one of the goals in project of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in term of achieving sustainable development. Methodology – Questionnaire and content analysis methods were applied for the purpose of the study. A total 72 respondents of Indonesian accountants in year 2015 from 5 different category (public accountant, management accountant, education accountant, tax accountant, and government accountant) provided their perspective by ranking of understanding and importance in inclusivity in social aspect. Findings - It finds that perspective of accountants in understanding about inclusivity in social aspect is in the range of strong and very strong, also, the importance to get involved in social aspect is in the range of strong to very strong. The most findings are accountants stated that conquering the corruption is very important to achieve sustainable development through following ethical conduct, be responsible and transparent, obeying the rule, and becoming whistle blower in any unfair cases. Research limitations - This study is limited only discussing the goal number 16 about inclusivity in social aspects from 17 goals in SDG, also the respondents are only 72 accountants that domicile in Jakarta and surronded, not covering all accountants in Indonesia. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Dykan O.V., Mashchenko M.А. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETYPurpose. The aim of the article is the determination of the social variant of environmental safety and analysis of the indicators of the overall mechanism for evaluating social threats in the prolonged study to ensure the environmental safety of the state.Methodology of research. The methods of analysis and synthesis, graphical and analytical method of research are used in the article for determining the indicators of the criterion assessment of social security, social component, an assessment of social threats.Findings. It is established that the formation of new social and economic relations in Ukraine on the basis of reforming the social and economic model requires an understanding of approaches and the development of the concept of national security, and within the framework of the general concept, the substantiation of the main provisions of Ukraine's environmental security.The importance of the social variant of environmental safety has been determined and the necessity of implementation of the complex results of social and ecological and economic research in the general state strategy for reforming the social and economic model and the further implementation of the Concept of Sustainable Development have been substantiated.It is proved that one of the most important approaches to achieve invariant safety is the introduction of a developed general mechanism for assessing social threats based on selected indicators and criterion assessments.Originality. It is substantiated that one of the most important approaches to achieve invariant safety is defined in the article and the author has developed a general mechanism for assessing social threats based on selected indicators and criterion assessments.Practical value. The obtained results of the research are aimed at supporting a sufficient standard of living of the population; provision of social and political security of society; maintaining the foundations of the constitutional system; formation of a stable system of national values and interests.Key words: environmental safety; social security; social and ecological economic approach; state.

The article analyzes the problem of accessibility of education. Education accessibility has become of great relevance in the European Union in recent decades, when the attention has been paid to its integral influence in shaping social, cultural, economic and political situation. Education accessibility enhances each country's or region's intellectual potential and promotes integration into the economic competitiveness of the area, not only in the context of the European countries, but also in international forums. This decade, all EU member states launched a decentralization of education management by promoting employment and reducing unemployment. In the Republic of Lithuania, on the basis of the principle of subsidiary, education decentralization and responsible management are under implementation; schools, municipal and state functions are redistributed, municipality responsibility to education accessibility has increased. The priority direction of education reform in the Republic of Lithuania is the development of infrastructure, i.e., the reorganization of the network of education services and the optimization that would guarantee access to learning. Education accessibility is particularly relevant for socially marginalized and poor citizens. KEYWORDS: social justice, education accessibility, social stratification.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/atee.v2i0.944

The issue: Over the last 20 years corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the standard business practices. Despite the positivity and optimism that CSR brings to the corporate table, its relationship with the companies' insolvency are poorly investigated, leading to concern about its impact.Purpose: The author intends to assess the state of the art of disclosing social responsibility aspects of companies' insolvency as a case of CSR and seeks the answer for the question if the definite pension and wage benefits in case of corporate insolvencies should be included into management reports.Methodology: Literature sources and public domain data analysis, analysis of local and international legislative documents and other regulatory official papers, investigation of the practice of corporate social responsibility all around the world, consolidated financial statements of companies, etc. have been used to formulate conclusions. Comparative studies of Belarusian legislation and the relevant international wage and pension protection mechanisms and instruments were analysed for making more informed and well-argued conclusions and recommendations based upon these studies.Findings: Evidence shows that together with the employment issues, occupational health and safety aspects, training and education matters, etc. companies are expected to disclose such information as employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency through disclosing relevant non-financial information in management reports.Value: The research may be the basis for the further practical implementation of disclosure requirements on non-financial and diversity information in international guidelines and principles.

The issue: Over the last 20 years corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the standard business practices. Despite the positivity and optimism that CSR brings to the corporate table, its relationship with the companies' insolvency are poorly investigated, leading to concern about its impact.Purpose: The author intends to assess the state of the art of disclosing social responsibility aspects of companies' insolvency as a case of CSR and seeks the answer for the question if the definite pension and wage benefits in case of corporate insolvencies should be included into management reports.Methodology: Literature sources and public domain data analysis, analysis of local and international legislative documents and other regulatory official papers, investigation of the practice of corporate social responsibility all around the world, consolidated financial statements of companies, etc. have been used to formulate conclusions. Comparative studies of Belarusian legislation and the relevant international wage and pension protection mechanisms and instruments were analysed for making more informed and well-argued conclusions and recommendations based upon these studies.Findings: Evidence shows that together with the employment issues, occupational health and safety aspects, training and education matters, etc. companies are expected to disclose such information as employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency through disclosing relevant non-financial information in management reports.Value: The research may be the basis for the further practical implementation of disclosure requirements on non-financial and diversity information in international guidelines and principles.

Purpose: This paper analyses the progress in extending disclosure of non-financial and diversity CSR information and seeks answer for the question if the definite pension and wage benefits in case of corporate insolvencies should be reflected in the management reports.Design/methodology/approach: Literature analysis, analysis of existing legislation and mechanism for the application of domestic law corresponded to EU directives and international guidelines and standards have been used to formulate conclusions. Сomparative studies of Belarusian legislation and the relevant international wage and pension protection instruments were analysed for making more informed and well-argued conclusions and recommendations based upon these studies.Research and practical limitations/implications: The theoretical framework of this paper is combined with analysis of the existing regulations on the protection of the rights of employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency.Findings: The conducted research suggests that together with implementation of diversity issues, employment issues, etc. of social and employee matters, companies are expected to disclose such material information as employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency through disclosing a relevant non-financial and diversity information in management reports.Originality/value: This article summarizes arguments behind the implementation of social responsibility aspects of companies' insolvency in the management reports. This research may be the basis for further practical implementation of disclosure requirements on non-financial and diversity information in international guidelines and principles.Paper type: research paper.

Purpose: This paper analyses the progress in extending disclosure of non-financial and diversity CSR information and seeks answer for the question if the definite pension and wage benefits in case of corporate insolvencies should be reflected in the management reports.Design/methodology/approach: Literature analysis, analysis of existing legislation and mechanism for the application of domestic law corresponded to EU directives and international guidelines and standards have been used to formulate conclusions. Сomparative studies of Belarusian legislation and the relevant international wage and pension protection instruments were analysed for making more informed and well-argued conclusions and recommendations based upon these studies.Research and practical limitations/implications: The theoretical framework of this paper is combined with analysis of the existing regulations on the protection of the rights of employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency.Findings: The conducted research suggests that together with implementation of diversity issues, employment issues, etc. of social and employee matters, companies are expected to disclose such material information as employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency through disclosing a relevant non-financial and diversity information in management reports.Originality/value: This article summarizes arguments behind the implementation of social responsibility aspects of companies' insolvency in the management reports. This research may be the basis for further practical implementation of disclosure requirements on non-financial and diversity information in international guidelines and principles.Paper type: research paper.

Metadata only record ; This book is a collection of papers presented at a workshop titled 'Listening to the people: social aspects of dryland management,' held in Nairobi, Kenya, 14-18 December 1993. The event was organized by the Desertification Control Programme Activity Centre of UNEP to develop a better understanding of community participation and bottom-up development. A primary goal of the workshop was to formulate recommendations of what needs to be done to achieve sustainable development in the drylands. A prerequisite for the success of any intervention affecting a local community is that the planners recognize the institutions, systems of indigenous knowledge and management structures that already exist. The papers and discussions of the workshop analyse the experiences of over three decades of attempts by governments, donor agencies and non-governmental organizations to promote economic development in the drylands of developing countries. Six sections of the book cover: (1) the social dimensions and concepts of desertification; (2) participatory approaches and methods related to development of the drylands; (3) social aspects of dryland management; (4) indigenous knowledge; (5) gender issues in natural resource management; and (6) the importance of government policies in dryland management. (CAB Abstracts)

Introduction: the article is devoted to the autonomization process (gaining of ethnical and territorial autonomy) in modern Europe and relevance of the social component in this process. Purpose: to analyze the significance of the social component, considered under this study as vesting autonomies with power to carry out social policy and providing them with the relevant financial opportunities in the course of decentralization and devolution. Methods: the methodological framework of the research is based on a set of methods, including universal, general scientific methods and also comparative law and technical methods. Results: various models of autonomization in Europe show various strategies of regional and/or ethnical elites. The models considered in the article are characterized with the elites' focus on gaining a high degree of autonomy and its legitimation (decentralization without breakup of the state, devolution without revolution). Though political ambitions, ethnical and regional identity play their significant part, socio-economic factors, in general, and the autonomization social component, in particular, determine this process to a considerable extent. The European models of autonomization do not exemplify political ambitions being satisfied at the expense of social policy curtailing.

In the modern world, security is some one of the basic human needs. In addition to the multiple threats that can be considered traditional, i.e. military or political ones, new, unconventional risks to the public appear. Unconventional threats are so dangerous for the society that they are not fully identified and there are no developed ways of dealing with them. These threats can be called social hazards that defy the existential basis of human existence. The answer to the more and more frequent occurrences of such phenomena are social security instruments and tasks assigned to it, for which both the state, institutions shaped by civil society and the citizen are responsible.

International audience ; The interest for hesychasm was often limited to the factual and theoretical aspects of the controversy. Although hesychasm is the object of many works in the corpus of studies of Byzantine theology, its social roots and societal ramifications have largely been neglected. From its purely monastic state in the fourth century, hesychasm came to shape a particular style of civilization at the end of the fourteenth century. The subjects of political and social order were inevitably included in the theological aspects of the hesychast quarrel. While the manner in which those subjects arose may have been accidental, they can in no case be treated as incidental. The new leaders of the Byzantine Church from then on had to tie their mysticism into immediate historical practice. Νο matter how much these hesychast leaders may have been influenced by Athonite traditions and anachorite practices, and however much they might have deplored 'worldliness', they were nevertheless obliged to exercise their influence in temporal matters. It is this translation of a piety into an often political, sometimes administrative and always social form, which is the aim of this paper.

International audience ; The interest for hesychasm was often limited to the factual and theoretical aspects of the controversy. Although hesychasm is the object of many works in the corpus of studies of Byzantine theology, its social roots and societal ramifications have largely been neglected. From its purely monastic state in the fourth century, hesychasm came to shape a particular style of civilization at the end of the fourteenth century. The subjects of political and social order were inevitably included in the theological aspects of the hesychast quarrel. While the manner in which those subjects arose may have been accidental, they can in no case be treated as incidental. The new leaders of the Byzantine Church from then on had to tie their mysticism into immediate historical practice. Νο matter how much these hesychast leaders may have been influenced by Athonite traditions and anachorite practices, and however much they might have deplored 'worldliness', they were nevertheless obliged to exercise their influence in temporal matters. It is this translation of a piety into an often political, sometimes administrative and always social form, which is the aim of this paper.

Thank you to Jeanne Sept, Dean of Faculties,and Dean Geraldo Gonzalez and Sarah Baumgart at the School of Education, Indiana University. ; Teaching children with autism presents an enormous challenge to educators. Professionals who have students with autism in their classrooms must decide how they will structure their curriculum to meet the special needs of these students. Current research suggests that educators should focus on developing the social behaviors of children with autism. In fact, much of the research on teaching autism does not focus on strategies and theories for teaching students specific subjects. Instead, most articles suggest that social learning serves as a foundation for all other learning in the education system. This type of research and philosophy seemed to be making headway in America's schools until the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB). This powerful piece of federal legislation intends to level the playing field for all demographic groups, including special education groups. Contrary to its own goals, the NCLB actually places students with autism at a disadvantage because of its emphasis on academic standards and goals at the expense of social aspects of education for students with autism. Under NCLB, educators have very few opportunities to build a solid social behavior foundation within their students with autism. In short, children with autism seem to be back where they started prior to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) provision of a Free and Appropriate Education (FAPE). ; Dean of Faculties and School of Education, Indiana Univeristy

The interdisciplinary field of neurorobotics looks to neuroscience to overcome the limitations of modern robotics technology, to robotics to advance our understanding of the neural system's inner workings, and to information technology to develop tools that support those complementary endeavours. The development of these technologies is still at an early stage, which makes them an ideal candidate for proactive and anticipatory ethical reflection. This article explains the current state of neurorobotics development within the Human Brain Project, originating from a close collaboration between the scientific and technical experts who drive neurorobotics innovation, and the humanities and social sciences scholars who provide contextualising and reflective capabilities. This article discusses some of the ethical issues which can reasonably be expected. On this basis, the article explores possible gaps identified within this collaborative, ethical reflection that calls for attention to ensure that the development of neurorobotics is ethically sound and socially acceptable and desirable. ; European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme 720270 785907 945539