Social Sustainability in Informal Settlements

The link between sustainability and equity was firmly established in the Brundtland Commission report, Our Common Future, which included the language “inequality is the planet’s main ‘environmental’ problem”. Following its publication in 1987, significant resources have been dedicated to sustainable development and poverty eradication. These intertwined goals were included in the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals and the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals. However the c...