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Community Capital
A Sustainable Approach to Community Development
Mark Roseland
SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development – www.sfu.ca/cscd
“Remaking the Economy” Forum
March 7, 2009
SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development
Mission: to enable the sustainable development of communities in BC, Canada, and around the world
Research, education, and community mobilization
Academic, professional, and outreach programs
Local Sustainability Examples Oslo, Norway - transit pass for downtown drivers Vancouver - climate action plan Minneapolis - restrictions on packaging California - water retrofit requirements San Luis Obispo - stream daylighting Zutphen, Holland - “disassembly” line
Some Big Questions Can the paradigms (thinking), systems, and the
institutions that created these problems also be expected to solve them?
Can we remake our economy to provide the good things we need from economic development (jobs, income, wealth, security) without destroying our communities and the life-support systems upon which we depend?
Where can we look for models and examples that help demonstrate a sustainable economy?
The Development Significance of Sustainable Development SD represents a “historic compromise”
between the ideology of capitalism and its environmental critique
SD is coming of age
Sustainable Development does NOT simply mean
Environmental protection
Economic growth (presumably to pay for, among other things, environmental protection)
Three Core Elements of Sustainable Development
Environmental considerations must be entrenched in economic decisions and policy-making.
An inescapable commitment to social equity.
“Development” does not simply equal “growth.”
Four Key Ideas Sustainable development becomes
tangible when understood in terms of natural capital and natural income
Natural capital and social equity demand that the world’s wealthier people (e.g. most North Americans) find ways of living more lightly on the planet
Reducing materials and energy consumption can enhance quality of life and the public domain, e.g., multiply social capital
Critical resources for multiplying social capital are not (only) money, but trust, imagination, courage, commitment, relationships, and time
What is Sustainable Community Development?
SCD is sustainable development applied at the local level.
SCD means thinking globally and acting locally: it’s “glocal.”
SCD aims to integrate economic, social and environmental objectives in community development.
SCD considers economic factors and other community elements such as housing, education, the natural environment, health, accessibility and the arts
emerging as a compelling alternative; a participatory, holistic and inclusive process
SCD leads to positive, concrete changes in communities by creating employment, reducing poverty, restoring the health of the natural environment, stabilizing local economies, and increasing community control
Community Capital
Strengthening community capital for sustainable community development means focusing attention on six forms of capital…
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Natural Capital
Minimizing the consumption of essential natural capital, e.g.:living within ecological limits,
resource conservation and enhancement, cleaner production, less waste
Physical Capital
Improving physical capital, e.g.: community assets such as
facilities, water, transportation, housing, infrastructure, telecommunications
Economic Capital
Strengthening economic capital, e.g.:Making more with less, maximizing
use of existing resources, circulating the money, making something new, trading fairly, community financial institutions
Human Capital
Increasing Human Capital, e.g.:health, education, nutrition,
literacy, and family and community cohesion
Social Capital
Multiplying Social Capital, e.g.:local governance, strong
organizations, capacity-building, participatory planning, access to information, collaboration and partnerships
Cultural Capital
Enhancing Cultural Capital, e.g.:traditions and values, heritage and
place, the arts, diversity, and social history
A Framework for Sustainable Community Development
Sustainable development requires mobilizing citizens and their governments to strengthen all forms of community capital. Community mobilization is necessary to coordinate, balance and catalyse community capital.
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Sustainable community development seeks to mobilize community to strengthen all these forms of community capital.
Back to those Big Questions Can the paradigms (thinking), systems, and the
institutions that created these problems also be expected to solve them?
Can we remake our economy to provide the good things we need from economic development (jobs, income, wealth, security) without destroying our communities and the life-support systems upon which we depend?
Where can we look for models and examples that help demonstrate a sustainable economy?
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