Background

Achieving inclusive and sustainable development is intimately linked to justice: Economic justice, social justice as well as environmental justice. Indeed, social justice is a necessary condition for sustainable economic development that ensures the economic prosperity of societies and improves their citizens' standard of living through a dynamic of wealth creation and human development that benefits all citizens. Environmental justice, for its part, attempts to respond to environmental conflicts that affect these same people in precarious conditions.

Social justice and environmental justice are now the main challenge facing a world already experiencing rising inequality, persistent social injustice and unprecedented levels of biodiversity loss, natural resource depletion and environmental degradation. Social justice and environmental justice are inseparable struggles and a necessary condition for inclusive and sustainable development.

In the current context where the accentuation of social inequalities such as environmental degradation is increasingly present in political debates and programs, the problem of relationships and intersections between them is increasingly being addressed. While these forms of justice may converge on certain points, they may also conflict and impede the achievement of sustainable development goals.

In this context marked by major geopolitical changes where socio-economic inequalities are increasing in the world, social and environmental justice is considered to be one of the priority research areas in the field of sustainable development economics.

Social and environmental justice raises the question of market efficiency and the role of the state in the economy. It involves the implementation of inclusive economic development policies, equitable distribution of income and mechanisms for redistribution of wealth to mitigate socio-economic inequalities. In this context, the new development models designed by developing countries make social and environmental justice a pillar for mitigating growing inequalities and injustices.

Sustainable economic development in its relationship with social and environmental justice is strongly understood in alternative development models as a multidimensional process of wealth creation and human development, which benefits all citizens and takes into account the imperative to value and preserve resources for future generations. In this context, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recommend that countries design alternative development models that make social and environmental justice and the reduction of inequalities pillars of sustainable development.

This international conference aims to create a space for exchanges, reflections and debates between researchers and professionals, on the various themes and issues related to social and environmental justice in its relationship with sustainable and inclusive economic development. It aims to examine and debate contemporary development models that represent one of the priority areas of research in the area of sustainable development economics.