Social Justice and Gender Equality in Urban Sustainability

This essay explores the critical role of social justice in achieving gender equality and environmental sustainability within urban communities. It highlights the environmental challenges faced by low-income residents, such as pollution and inadequate infrastructure, and how these issues contribute to health disparities. The essay argues that social justice initiatives, including government projects, improved waste management, and access to healthcare, are essential for improving living conditions and promoting economic development. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of social justice, gender equality, and sustainability, advocating for policies and actions that address inequalities and ensure a better quality of life for all urban residents. The conclusion reinforces the importance of gender development and social justice for achieving economic and organizational sustainability in urban areas. This analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the complex relationship between social justice and urban sustainability.

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Gender Equality
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Introduction:
Social justice can be perceived as primary aspects of sustainability in several ways.
Gender is one of the most significant social issue which the society is facing even today. Social
justice refers to the equality of every individual before law in the society irrespective of social
status. Social justice also mentions that individuals should act towards benefitting the
environment and should abstain from committing crime (irishtimes.com, 2018). The essay would
delve into the unhealthy conditions in which the low income residents are forced to live in due to
limited financial capabilities and how social justice can help to deal with this issue.
Analysis:
An environmental aspect of sustenance is important to establish social justice in the
urban. Social justice can play play a significant role in ensuring environmental sustainability in
the urban communities (Lawal, Ayoade & Taiwo, 2016). According to Meyers and Vallas
(2016), the urban areas are ridden with different types of environmental problems. The high rates
of pollution of water, air and land create health hazards in the cities. The rich people often settle
in the locations with the best of facilities while the low income pollution are forced to settle in
the less developed and unhygienic areas. These areas where the low income people often suffer
from environmental issues like sewage disposal and drainage issues. These factors encourage
spread of diseases among these less rich urban residents. They cannot expensive health treatment
facilities and suffer due to the diseases. Social justice can help in solving this issue of unhealthy
living conditions of the lower class residents in the urban communities. This would promote
sustainability in the urban environment and help to improve the living conditions of these people.

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Mills (2015) mentions that the different stakeholders of the society can act towards
counteracting this environmental problem and establish sustainability in the urban areas. The
government bodies can launch projects to improve drainage in these areas. Setting up of
advanced waste treatment plant would enable faster recycling of wastes and minimise leaking of
wastes into the water supply systems. This would reduce contamination of the drinking water
and minimise spread of water borne diseases in the low income group residents in the cities.
Similarly, the multinational health facilities like multinational health chains can arrange for free
health check-ups in these areas (irishtimes.com, 2018). These social initiatives would improve
the health awareness and health conditions among the poor people. The sewage from the upper
class residential areas should not be dumped near areas where the low income residents thrive.
The legal bodies and governments should take appropriate to ensure social justice to the less
privileged class. This would ensure better living standards and sustainability among the lower
income urban population.
Sustainability and social justice have very significant economic aspects as in the urban
areas. The governments and multinational corporation can take initiatives to develop the living
standards of the low income residents in the cities. Betterment of the living conditions among the
lower income group people would allow them to achieve better standard of health, thus reducing
their medical treatment expenditures. These people would be able to spend the money towards
attaining higher education and obtaining more highly paying jobs (Mills 2015). They can
contribute towards improvement of productivity of the organisations employing them, thus
resulting in production of more goods and services, thus causing more benefit for the society.
Thus, social justice and sustainability can contribute towards economic development.

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Conclusion:
This discussion clearly points out that gender development is empirical to bring about
economic, social and organisational sustainability. Thus, social justice is very important to
achieve economic development and sustainability in cities and towns.

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