Article
Foundation for Measuring Community Sustainability
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4391-3590
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-15-2019
Keywords
- sustainable communities; sustainability assessment; performance measurement
Disciplines
Abstract
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.
Publisher Attribution
Sustainability
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International
Citation Information
Pamela A. Mischen, George C. Homsy, Carl P. Lipo, Robert Holahan, et al.. "Foundation for Measuring Community Sustainability" (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/george-homsy/19/