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Pando | Sustainable Communities

Pando.sc is the digital companion to the new 5th edition of Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments.

The Community Capital Toolkit

The Community Capital Toolkit is a way of thinking, assessing progress, and guiding decisions that can help organizations integrate their goals, mitigate potential conflicts, and find synergies to achieve multiple objectives with informed strategic action.

Community Capital Scan

The CCS, Community Capital Scan, is an internet based instrument developed by the Center for Sustainable Community Development of the Simon Fraser University (Vancouver Canada) and Telos, the Brabant Center for Sustainable Development of Tilburg University ( Netherlands). The CCS offers the opportunity to gain an advance insight in a simple way into how projects or programmes are expected to contribute to the sustainable development of a community. This insight is obtained by asking all the relevant stakeholders involved in a project or programme to give their opinion of it by means of a structured questionnaire. The questions relate to the six capitals of sustainable community development: natural capital, physical capital, economic capital, social capital, human capital and cultural capital. To facilitate interpretation, the outcomes are presented graphically. In addition, the scan offers an opportunity to make a wide range of suggestions for improvements to the project. There is also the option to fill in the CCS scan individually.

Telos

Our Dutch partner Telos, the Brabant Centre for Sustainable Development, was established in 1999 as an interdisciplinary and independent research centre. Its objectives are to study, monitor, and support sustainable development in the province of Brabant, to support innovations, to raise awareness on sustainable development in society and among policy makers, and to support social learning.

Building Civic Capital

A publication produced by Dark Matter Labs, in collaboration with Community Foundations of Canada, Evergreen (Future Cities Canada Initiative), MIS/Maison de l'innovation sociale, MaRS Discovery District and McConnell Foundation.

Capitals Coalition

The Capitals Coalition is a global collaboration redefining value to transform decision making.  We sit at the heart of an extensive global network that has united to advance the capitals approach to decision-making.  The Coalition provides an overview of the landscape, highlights connections, engages in outreach and facilitates expert advice within the capitals community.  We ensure that different parts of the system are connected to one another and that leading organizations and experts are working collaboratively to achieve our shared ambition.  By working with our many thousands of global partners we accelerate momentum, leverage success, connect powerful and engaged communities and identify the areas, projects and partnerships where we can collaboratively drive transformational change.

A Global Survey of Urban Sustainability Rating Tools

Criterion Planners, November 2014.  Document here.  

Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools and a Comparative Analysis of Five Different Assessment Tools

Serkan Yıldız, Mustafa Yılmaz, Serkan Kıvrak, Arzuhan Burcu Gültekin.  Planlama 2016;26(2):93–100 doi: 10.14744/planlama.2016.05914

ABSTRACT

The search for finding solutions for urban problems led to the emergence of efforts to apply the concept of sustainability to cities and hundreds of assessment tools have been developed to assess the sustainability from buildings to neighborhoods and urban scales. Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) tools, which examine the buildings together with their environments and evaluate the topics like society, land usage, transportation , water, air, energy and biologic diversity as a whole economically , environmentally and socially, are the tools that have been presented in recent years and started to be recognized and used very recently. In this study, it was aimed to introduce relatively mostly known 5 NSA tools, reveal the differences and similarities among them through various comparisons and make an assessment. The main point of the study was comprised of determining the approach differences between the systems in respect of the main goals of sustainability through the comparison of each system's main category and criteria in terms of scope, number and scoring. With this study, the world literature that is quite limited on this topic will be developed and contribution will be made to increase the awareness of the topic. It is also aimed to contribute establishing an assessment tool in Turkey.