To wrap up this series on Sustainable Community Development, here’s an overview of literature and practice. The full paper on this topic was published in the journal Sustainability in September 2020. The origins of the concept of sustainable development can be…
The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…
From the 1972 Conference on Human Environment and the 1987 Brundtland Commission report to the 2002 and 2012 Earth Summits, the message has been loud and clear: the world needs to be on a more sustainable pathway quickly, if we…
David Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. David Suzuki. Credit: Stephen Barnett from Darwin, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Repost from the David Suzuki Foundation. Published on January 5, 2021. The following is…
By Maria Spiliotopoulou and Mark Roseland Chapter 20 of the Research Handbook on Community Development, edited by Rhonda Phillips, Eric Trevan and Patsy Kraeger, and published in 2020 by Edward Elgar Publishing. Full text of our chapter is available online…
New design guidelines from the American Society of Landscape Architects show us how to build them By Diana Budds Aug 28, 2019, 5:00pm EDTFrom: https://www.curbed.com/2019/8/28/20835301/universal-streets-accessible-street-design Jackson Street, in St. Paul, was recently redesigned to accommodate multi-modal transportation and increase accessibility….
