Brown Valerie A, Ritchie Jan
University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, and Local Sustainability Project, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory.
Health Promot J Austr. 2006 Dec;17(3):211-6. doi: 10.1071/he06211.
Reports of the degeneration of Earth's natural life-support systems have focused the minds of those in the scientific, political and general communities on how to avert a collapse. For many health promotion practitioners the effective unit of social change is the community, the interconnected web of people and place that makes up a human living system. The challenge lies in determining just what makes up a sustainable community under 21st Century conditions.
This paper reviews major national and international programs working towards sustainable communities, in order to arrive at strategies that establish the necessary interconnectedness and collective action within each individual community.
Moving to a sustainable community under these conditions appears to meet the conditions of a 'wicked problem', that is, one that lies outside the present capacity of the society to resolve it. The move therefore calls for guided social change.
The priorities for guiding the change to a sustainable community involve collective thinking and action as a mutual learning process among the affected individuals, communities, experts, and organisations, towards a holistic sustainability goal.
关于地球自然生命支持系统退化的报告使科学界、政界和普通大众关注如何避免崩溃。对于许多健康促进从业者而言，社会变革的有效单位是社区，即构成人类生活系统的人与地方相互关联的网络。挑战在于确定在21世纪的条件下，一个可持续社区究竟由什么构成。
本文回顾了致力于可持续社区建设的主要国内和国际项目，以便得出在每个社区内建立必要的相互联系和集体行动的策略。
在这些条件下转向可持续社区似乎符合“棘手问题”的情况，也就是说，这是一个超出社会当前解决能力的问题。因此，这一转变需要有引导的社会变革。
引导向可持续社区转变的优先事项包括集体思考和行动，这是受影响的个人、社区、专家和组织之间朝着整体可持续性目标进行的相互学习过程。
