The idea of community

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The idea of community
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Sustainability and community
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Capital Assets
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Integrated model for sustainable communities
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Government and Governance

• Government - formal institutions of public
  discussion, planning, decision-making and
  administration
• Governance - the set of formal and informal
  institutions within and beyond government,
  providing the conditions for ordered rule and
  collective action

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Active Citizenship

• Active v. passive citizenship
• Active citizenship as public work
• Civic capacity or agency
• political structures
• political activities

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Participation

• Participation and sustainability
• Effective participation
• Perceptions of participation
• Means of participation
• Instrumental v. intrinsic participation

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Political Effectiveness by Participation Type
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Leadership - Political champions

• Advocacy within council
• Operational clout
• Public promotion
• Building ecological and civic literacy skills
• Inclusive communication participation
• Intra-generational equity
• Democratic processes geopolitics of place

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Professional champions

• Commitment to sustainability
• drives internal cultural organizational change
• fosters the drivers of sustainability planning
• cross-departmental officer co-ordination
• internal training and awareness raising
• an internal environmental management system
• integration of sustainability into strategies,
  policies and activities

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Governance social capital

• A variety of practices, attitudes and knowledge
  that enables cooperation for common purposes
• Trust and public-spiritedness
• Reciprocity and cooperation
• Connectedness and networks

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Trust, reciprocity, cooperation

• Social trust
• social learning, accountability
• Political trust
• implementation of programs
• Institutional trust
• workability
• The exchange of information, good will,
  resources, goods and services in the expectation
  that generalised trust and networks will pay
  dividends in return

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Connectedness and Networks

• Connectedness
• Importance of networks
• fostering social capital, trust, cooperation,
  efficiencies
• pulling down resources, information gathering
  sharing
• building capacity
• building support environment
• strategic focus
• attitudinal behavioural change
• recruitment organizational change

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Drivers of sustainability

• Sustainability training
• Leading by example
• Corporate sustainability policy
• Policy assessment for sustainability implications
• Evaluation and monitoring indicators
• Targets and goals
• Rules, standing orders, financial regulations
• Management structures