Community vision and leadership in practice: a sustainable approach

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Why Is a Shared Vision Important? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Working Together for a Common Future -- 1.3 References -- 1.4 Discussion Questions -- 2 The Concept of Community -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 True Community Is Founded on a Sense of Place, History, Respect, and Trust -- 2.3 Local Communities under Stress -- 2.4 Community Depends on How We Treat One Another -- 2.4.1 First Americans -- 2.4.2 "Company" Towns -- 2.4.3 Competition -- 2.5 References -- 2.6 Discussion Questions -- 3 Questions We Need to Ask -- 3.1 Who Are We as a Culture? -- 3.1.1 Experiencing Cultural Disruption -- 3.1.2 Categories of Value -- 3.1.3 Identifying the Values You Wish to Pass On to the Future -- 3.1.4 Ferreting Out Community Values -- 3.2 What Legacy Do We Want to Leave Our Children? -- 3.3 Including Children in Envisioning the World They'll Inherit -- 3.3.1 Encourage Children to Draw Their Visions of Community -- 3.4 References -- 3.5 Discussion Questions -- 4 Understanding a Vision, Goals, and Objectives -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Worldview -- 4.2.1 Perception -- 4.2.2 Imagination -- 4.3 Defining Vision, Goals, and Objectives -- 4.3.1 Vision -- 4.3.2 Goals -- 4.3.3 Objectives -- 4.4 Barriers to Communication -- 4.4.1 Piece Thinkers versus Systems Thinkers -- 4.4.2 Abstractions versus Concrete Experiences -- 4.5 Reframing a Negative as a Positive -- 4.6 A Vision Is Tied to Negotiability Constraints -- 4.7 Testing the Effectiveness of Decisions through Monitoring -- 4.7.1 The Questions We Ask -- 4.7.2 Monitoring in Five Steps -- 4.7.2.1 Step 1: Crafting a Vision Statement, Goals, and Objectives -- 4.7.2.2 Step 2: Preliminary Inventory -- 4.7.2.3 Step 3: Assessing Implementation -- 4.7.2.4 Step 4: Monitoring Effectiveness -- 4.7.2.5 Step 5: Monitoring to Validate the Outcome.

"This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change. It explains the concepts and principles of community and sustainability, giving readers a framework of sustainable community planning to put into practice. Written to help communities identify and reconnect their true essence to their ecological setting with the objectives of raising their quality of life by increasing social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Those with an interest in community, sustainability, and leadership will benefit from the forward-thinking approach the authors present"--