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Community Sustainability

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Local sustainability; Sustainable communities

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Sustainability has become a central concern in communities around the world. However, there have been limited attempts to define sustainability at community level. It is widely argued that sustainable communities are the ones that follow ecological, social, and economic aspirations and aspects of sustainable development. Accordingly, community sustainability can be defined as the total of community-based attempts to preserve a strong and successful economy, society, and environment; to adjust and respond to outside challenges and opportunities; and to provide quality of life for members in a persistent way (MacKendrick and Parkins 2004). In a more recent and comprehensive definition, Mischen and her colleagues (2019) describe community sustainability as sharing of collective resources by functionally and socially connected actors in “a way that engages members in a set of governance processes resulting in an equitable...

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  1. Faculty of Business, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey

    Ozge Can

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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  1. Faculty of Society and Economics, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve, Germany

    Dirk Reiser

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Can, O. (2020). Community Sustainability. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_484-1

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