Part 1:
Mobilizing for Sustainability

Part 1 establishes the rationale for why, where, and how we pursue sustainability. Chapters 1 and 2 provide an overview of why and how global and local contexts are unsustainable in environmental, economic, and social terms and introduce the meaning of sustainability that we use. Locally, we must recognize the importance of growth planning and development patterns when it comes to buildings, transportation, and infrastructure. Chapter 3 explains the public policy process and how it plays out through collaborative governance across sectors. Common policy types are introduced as a foundation for the many sustainability tools described in Part 2. Chapter 4 explains how local governments plan and how they can better pursue sustainable community development (SCD). Chapter 5 introduces the Community Capital Compass, which expands previous community capital frameworks to include eight forms (natural, built, organizational, political, financial, cultural, human, and relational). The Compass has been added as an organizing metaphor to emphasize the importance of knowing where you are in dynamic relation to all eight forms of capital (destinations) as you orient action toward any particular community development objective (true North). This imagery supports approaches to holistic analysis and assessments of whether synergies or tradeoffs are being generated (attention to all eight directions). It also supports the development of causal models and maps that spiral communities up or down in the pursuit of sustainability. Lastly, it provides a “gauge” of sorts for book navigation, showing how each sustainability

• Chapter 1. The Global Context for Sustainability

  • Why Care About Sustainability?

  • Earth’s Carrying Capacity

  • The Path to Unsustainability

  • Unsustainable Environmental Systems

  • Unsustainable Agricultural Production

  • Unsustainable Natural Resource Extraction

  • Unsustainable Energy Sources

  • Unsustainable Economic Systems

  • Distribution and Consumption

  • Capital-Labor Relationship

  • Unsustainable Social Systems

  • The Path to Sustainability

  • Strong or Weak Sustainability?
    
    

• Chapter 2. Sustainable Community Development

  • Sustainability at the Local Level

  • Growth Philosophies

  • Pro-Growth

  • Anti-Growth and Degrowth

  • Smart Growth

  • The Importance of Patterns

  • Images of Urban Sprawl

  • The Dynamics of Sprawl

  • Economic Costs of Sprawl

  • Environmental Costs of Sprawl

  • Social Costs of Sprawl

  • Sustainable Community Development

  • Images of Sustainable Community Development
    
    

• Chapter 3. Policymaking for Sustainable Community Development

  • From Government to Governance

  • Making and Implementing Public Policy

  • The Policy Process

  • Agenda Setting

  • Formulation

  • Choice and Legitimation

  • Implementation

  • Evaluation, Change, or Termination

  • Policy Tools

  • Distributive Policy (Expenditure)

  • Redistributive Policy (Taxation and Welfare)

  • Regulatory Policy (Incentives and Disincentives)

  • Constituent Policy (Administrative Support)

  • Voluntary Initiatives and Charity

  • Looking Ahead
    
    

• Chapter 4. Planning for Sustainable Community Development

  • What is Planning?

  • Who Plans?

  • Where to Plan?

  • What to Plan

  • The Comprehensive Plan

  • The Planning Process

  • Planning for Sustainable Community Development

  • Sustainable Environmental Development

  • Sustainable Economic Development

  • Sustainable Social Development

  • Stand-Alone Sustainability Plans
    
    

• Chapter 5. The Community Capital Compass

  • Community Capital Frameworks

  • Eight Forms of Community Capital

  • Patterns of Interaction

  • Theories of Community Development

  • A Comprehensive Model

  • The Community Capital Compass

  • The Community Capital Compass as Wayfinding Tool