Map 5: Community
action plans
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Fritz Schumacher (Small is Beautiful)
said you have to start at the human level if you want to change
society and build a system to engage and enable
community conservation plans. It is at this community level that ideas and
needs are generated by individuals and groups to improve their
sense of place. In this context, Schumacher argued that the
first task of government and partner organisations is to recognise
people who are already doing something about it (the blue arrowed route in the
following diagram), to support them by asking: what do we need to do to
ensure that more of this good work happens elesewhere (everything
below the blue line). Social sustainability indicators are targeted with
strategic plans for behaviour change at international, national and
local levels. Through integrated mapping, action drivers are provided for
community level action plans to boost a sense of place and provide
feedback to check outcomes against social sustainability targets.
This
system diagram is really a community action cycle. Individuals and groups
respond to social networks and education for living sustainability
to produce action plans for environmental improvements. Government via the Local Authority, helps by
producing social sustainability indicators as specific action
drivers, and through social marketing and partnerships with
organisations providing toolkits and training, stimulates community
engagement and enablement.
Feedback on outcomes from action plans back to Government
provide performance indicators to complete the cycle. If this
action system, with bottom to top feedback, is not
adopted, strategic plans simply represent Government talking to
itself.
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