The evolutionary development of this original work 2 has been a bit tricky to explain to others. It was preceded by numerous manuscripts, papers, and well over 200 articles since 2006, long before I surmised that all the bits and pieces could be brought together into a brief but integral whole, as I have tried to do here. My first try at creating an integrated work was almost exactly two years ago, in June 2015. At that point, I was only mid-way through a “fire-hose” deluge of conceptual development and writing, where the second half would provide some of the most important and vital concepts to complete the larger picture of social sustainability.
Only within the last three months have I been able to surmise that the conceptual evolution has come to a close, though I already know there is an immense amount that could fill a small library with the eventual secondary and tertiary works. My friends, not having had the direct or vicarious angst of creating a new work out of nothing similar, have scratched their heads for the last several years wondering when if any conclusions would ever be revealed.
What follows does not cover all of the conceptual development that has occurred, but what is here provides a simple holism to discuss social sustainability as it affects the societal-social, political-governmental, and the economic-financial pillars of a functional democratic society.
2 Originality is the aspect of created or invented works as being new or novel, and thus distinguishable from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or derivative works. An original work is one not received from others nor one copied from or based upon the work of others. Link