What is it about?
Communities that have successfully implemented sustainability programs and initiatives often work with local universities and colleges to do so. This article discusses how these highly sustainable cities partner with nearby colleges and universities to coordinate with faculty, staff and students to share knowledge and resources for establishing a more sustainable community based on environmental, economic and social equity considerations.
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Why is it important?
With smaller budgets, yet more complicated problems, cities can use these lessons to partner with universities and colleges to overcome the challenges associated with issues of sustainability.
Perspectives
While this is limited to the actions of communities that are already highly sustainable, this gives us a picture of how communities with limited resources - whether urban or rural - can help improve the economic, environmental and social well-being of their citizens by tapping the knowledge and resources of institutions of higher education. -MR
Megan Ruxton
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This page is a summary of: Sustainability university–community partnerships: Lessons for practitioners and scholars from highly sustainable communities, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2399654417749593.
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