Framework for Community Sustainability: Ten Ingredients for Long-Term Success

The Framework for Community Sustainability provides a guide for community governance based on the experiences of North American communities, emphasizing the complementary nature of the economy, community, and environment.

• The Framework for Community Sustainability is based on the experiences of North American communities that view the community, economy, and environment as complementary parts of a whole rather than competing interests.
• The framework provides ten ingredients of sustainable governance and outlines methods to integrate sustainability into the nonprofit, private, and public sectors of a community.

APA

RMI (2007). Framework for Community Sustainability: Ten Ingredients for Long-Term Success. https://rmi.org/resources/framework-for-community-sustainability-ten-ingredients-for-long-term-success/

Chicago

RMI. Framework for Community Sustainability: Ten Ingredients for Long-Term Success. 2007. https://rmi.org/resources/framework-for-community-sustainability-ten-ingredients-for-long-term-success/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2007framework, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Framework for Community Sustainability: Ten Ingredients for Long-Term Success}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2007}, month = may, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/framework-for-community-sustainability-ten-ingredients-for-long-term-success/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }