Description of Challenge
Projects with unsustainable effects.The Societal Impact Matrix presents a holistic view of human settlement that considers both ecology and society as equally important, interrelated things.
Solution
The Societal Impact Measurement is a method of measuring the effects of a project on several dimensions of sustainability, both environmental as well as social.
Originally developed for the 1996 Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in Istanbul, Turkey, it urges people to take responsibility for the broad implications of their particular decisions and actions.
