Community Vision and Leadership in Practice

This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change. It explains the concepts and principles of community and sustainability and provides students with a framework of sustainable community planning to put into practice. It is also designed to help communities everywhere identify and reconnect the true essence of their ecological setting with the objective of  raising their quality of life by increasing social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

Features:

• Provides up-to-date frameworks for sustainable community planning processes and case studies on community planning
• Explains tools for sustainable planning in accessible (non-specialist) language
• Illustrates a roadmap to an inclusive, collaborative future
• Explains aspects of sustainable community planning to maximize