A Foundation for Measuring Community Sustainability

A Foundation for Measuring Community Sustainability

In order to understand the impact of individual communities on global sustainability, we need a community sustainability assessment system (CSAS). While many sustainability assessment systems exist, they prove inadequate to the task. This article presents the results of a systematic review of the li...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sustainability 2019-04, Vol.11 (7), p.1903
Hauptverfasser: Mischen, Pamela A., Homsy, George C., Lipo, Carl P., Holahan, Robert, Imbruce, Valerie, Pape, Andreas, Zhu, Weixing, Graney, Joseph, Zhang, Ziang, Holmes, Louisa M., Reina, Manuel
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Sprache:eng
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Collective action
Community
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic indicators
Environmental protection
Environmental research
Geography
Integrated approach
Population
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Urban areas
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Zusammenfassung:In order to understand the impact of individual communities on global sustainability, we need a community sustainability assessment system (CSAS). While many sustainability assessment systems exist, they prove inadequate to the task. This article presents the results of a systematic review of the literature on existing sustainability assessment systems; offers a definition of a sustainable community; provides a multi-scale, systems approach to thinking about community; and makes recommendations from the field of performance measurement for the construction of a CSAS.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su11071903