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Publications Using the Community Capital Framework

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Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments, 5th edition

This fully revised 5th edition introduces the innovative Community Capital Compass as a powerful tool for maximizing the social, economic, and environmental benefits of complex community and regional decisions.

• Bastedo, J. L. (2017). Food Sovereignty and Community Development: Shellfish Aquaculture in the Nanwakolas First Nations.

• Bird, K. (2014). The UniverCity Sustainable Community Rating Tool (SCORE) Asessment.

• Bird, K. (2015). Neighbourhood sustainability assessment: Connecting impact with policy intent. 

• Hardill, A. (2016). Impact Investing for Sustainable Community Development.

• Hernandez, G., Ardis, L., & Mollinedo, A. (2015). Scanning for Sustainable Community Development in the Bolivian Highlands. Western Geography 21-22, 46-62.

• Joss, S., Cowley, R., de Jong, M., Müller, B., Park, B-S., Rees, W., Roseland, M., and Rydin, Y. (2015). Tomorrow’s City Today: Prospects for Standardising Sustainable Urban Development. London: University of Westminster. (ISBN 978-0-9570527-5-8). 

• Lemon, J. (2020). The Community Wellbeing Framework:  An Exercise in Reconciliation-Informed Planning.  

• Lowery, B. C. (2013). Entrepreneurs for a sustainable renewal: Community capital in Greater New Orleans and the impacts of sustainability entrepreneurship.

• Lowry, J. A. (2012). Community capital tool pilot project in the District of Sechelt.

• Mosier, E. T. (2017). Regulation x Sustainable Development: A Case for Land-Based Aquaculture for First Nations.

• Roseland, M., Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2012). 

• Roseland, M., and J. Dagevos, Community Capital Tool: A Brief Overview, workshop presentation video, 2015.  

• Roseland, M., and M. Spiliotopoulou, “Converging urban agendas: toward healthy and sustainable communities,” Soc. Sci. 2016, 5(3), 28; doi:10.3390/socsci5030028 

• Roseland, M., Spiliotopoulou, M., 2017. “Sustainable Community Planning and Development.” In: Abraham, M.A. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies. Elsevier, pp. 53–61.

• Ross, D. (2018). Sustainability planning and assessment: Identifying and evaluating community capital in the district of North Vancouver.

• Spiliotopoulou, M., Sustainable Community Development Through the Conceptual Lens of Urban Productivity, SFU School of Resource and Environmental Management, Spring 2021.

• Spiliotopoulou, M., & Roseland, M. (2020). Sustainable Community Development through the conceptual lens of community productivity. In Phillips, R. (Ed), The Research Handbook on Community Development, Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Spiliotopoulou, M., & Roseland, M. (2021). Urban sustainability via urban productivity? A conceptual review and framework proposal. Local Environment, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.2005008

• Spiliotopoulou, M., & Roseland, M. (2021). Making the SDGs Relevant for Cities: Using the Community Capital Tool in British Columbia. In King, L. O., & Iyer, S. (Eds), Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in North American Cities: Case Studies and Best Practices in the Science of Sustainability Indicators, Springer.

• Spiliotopoulou, M., & Roseland, M. (2021). Achieving community happiness and well-being through community productivity. In Cloutier, S. (Ed), Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Springer Nature.

• Spiliotopoulou, M., & Roseland, M. (2022). Sustainability planning, implementation, and assessment in cities: how can productivity enhance these processes? Discover Sustainability 3 (14), Springer.

• Wu, R., An eTOD (equitable Transit-Oriented Development) Visualization Tool for the South-Central Phoenix Light Rail Corridor, Arizona State University, School of Community Resources and Development, Fall 2021. 

Related Publications

• Castillo, E.A., Counting What Counts: Why Social Accounting MATTERS, Nonprofit Quarterly, Feb. 2019.

• Castillo, E.A., Beyond the Balance Sheet: Teaching Capacity Building as Capital Building,  Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership 2016, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 287–303, http://dx.doi.org/10.18666/JNEL-2016-V6-I3-7586 

• Castillo, E.A., Qualities before Quantities: A Framework to Develop Dynamic Assessment of the Nonprofit Sector, Nonprofit Policy Forum. 2018; 20180009, DOI: 10.1515/npf-2018-0009 

• Duffy, L. N., Kline, C., Swanson, J. R., Best, M., & McKinnon, H. (2017). Community development through agroecotourism in Cuba: an application of the community capitals framework. Journal of Ecotourism, 16(3), 203-221.

• Emery, M., & Flora, C. (2006). Spiraling-up: Mapping community transformation with community capitals framework. Community Development, 37(1), 19-35.

• Fey, S., Bregendahl, C., & Flora, C. (2006). The Measurement of Community Capitals through Research: A Study Conducted for the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. Development, 1, 1-28.

• Flora, C. B., Flora, J. L., & Gasteyer, S. P. (2015). Rural communities: Legacy + change. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu

• Frans L. P. Hermans, Wim M. F. Haarmann, and John F. L. M. M. Dagevos, Evaluation of stakeholder participation in monitoring regional sustainable development, Reg Environ Change (2011) 11:805–815.  DOI 10.1007/s10113-011-0216-y

• Gutierrez-Montes, I., Emery, M., & Fernandez-Baca, E. (2009). The sustainable livelihoods approach and the community capitals framework: The importance of system-level approaches to community change efforts. Community Development, 40(2), 106-113.

• Hancock, T. (2000), People, Partnerships and Human Progress: Building Community Capital, Health Promotion International 16:3. 

• Jacobs, C. (2011). Measuring success in communities: The community capitals framework. 

• Olivera, M.D. and M. Stout (2021).  Examining natural resource management through a community development theoretical lens.  Community Development, DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2021.1946575 

• Pigg, K., Gasteyer, S. P., Martin, K. E., Keating, K., & Apaliyah, G. P. (2013). The community capitals framework: An empirical examination of internal relationships. Community Development, 44(4), 492-502.

• Telos and SDSN, The 2019 SDG Index and Dashboards Report for European Cities.

• Kees Zoetemann, Hans Mommaas, and John Dagevos, Are larger cities more sustainable? Lessons from integrated sustainability monitoring in 403 Dutch municipalities.  Environmental Development, 2015.