Collaborative decision making for sustainable development
For many years, economic development has mean industrial recruitment where business-at-any-cost was preached by a small elite, where civic discord replaced civic discussion, where families made more money but had less to spend, where residents learned to lock their doors, where communities changed from the unique to commonplace and a thousand towns looked alike. But now, scores of communities are saying no to old, worn-out approaches to development and embracing a new kind of development that respects the community and the environment. Created collaboratively by people from all walks of community life, this new approach is called sustainable community economic development. Though new, sustainable development is based on traditional values of stewardship and working together. Its principles are powerful in their simplicity. Its lessons enrich community decision making. This paper describes these principles and lessons. It introduces a community decision-making process that applies them and suggests the kinds of results you can expect from such a process in your town.
- Research Organization:
- Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 416164
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9511214-; ON: DE96011051; TRN: 96:006564-0002
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Designing for the global environment, Atlanta, GA (United States), 2-3 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Designing for the global environment; PB: 176 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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