Abstract
Successful sustainable community development (SCD) incorporates multiple characteristics that are contained within the comprehensive functional framework of the community. These features offer the opportunity to achieve the maximum social, economic, and environmental benefit in the community. That is unless there is something that is undesirable regarding the character of these features such as their degraded nature or loss of capital. If so then any of these features that need fixing can be identified by the community and if the will is there something can be done.
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Flint, R.W. (2013). Key Community Issues for Change. In: Practice of Sustainable Community Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5100-6_14
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