Operationalising just sustainability: towards a model for place-based governance
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As the concept of sustainability broadens to include social aspects, sustainability organisations must embrace strategies that allow them to more effectively address community issues and procedural concerns. Biosphere reserves (BRs) and model forests (MFs) advocate strongly for community engagement to achieve place-based sustainability; in practice, however, these organisations have had variable success in effectively engaging community residents and addressing their needs and interests. In this paper, we offer a framework for place-based governance for sustainability that is used to compare strategies used in BRs and MFs operating in the Maritime Provinces of Canada with the operations of Vibrant Communities, an anti-poverty organisation that operates locally in Saint John, New Brunswick. We draw attention to three imperatives: comprehensive understanding, community empowerment, and community-based outcomes, and five procedural drivers: local leadership, strong networks, diverse community engagement, learning together, and information sharing. Based on our results, we provide greater clarity on processes that address the imperatives and mobilise the drivers of effective place-based governance for sustainability. Our results suggest that there is a need for theory and practice to advance beyond current understandings of sustainability governance to enhance the capacity of organisations seeking to implement community-based sustainability strategies.
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George & Reed (2017) explain that place-based governance utilizes local identities to build strengths and capabilities to mobilize the public, private, and civil sectors and address local-level challenges.
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- Authors
- George, C., & Reed, M. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Saskatchewan (CA)
- Corresponding author
- George, Colleen
- ORCID
- Reed, Maureen G.
- Venue
- Local Environment
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-10-29
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1105-1123
- ISSN
- 1354-9839 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-6711
- OpenAlex
- W2133013394
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 3.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Local Environment (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (865-2008-38)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Community and Sustainable Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Keywords
- just sustainability, place-based governance, community participation, biosphere reserves, model forests, community empowerment, local leadership, information sharing, learning together, sustainability governance, Maritime Provinces of Canada
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