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Defining Sustainability in City Policy: A Resilient Communities Project–GreenStep Cities Guide

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Defining Sustainability in City Policy: A Resilient Communities Project–GreenStep Cities Guide

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2016

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Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota.

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Planning for sustainability promotes responsible development that protects the health, safety, and general welfare of our communities. A key part of any local sustainability effort is defining what sustainability means in a given community. This resources offers guidance to cities interested in integrating sustainability into planning, development, and key city operations. Included is a model resolution for adopting a definition of sustainability. This document has been prepared by the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (RCP) for the Minnesota GreenStep Cities Program. This resource was developed from a report completed by students through a partnership between RCP and the City of North St. Paul, Minnesota, during the 2013–2014 academic year. Although the original report was developed for a specific community, students’ findings and recommendations have been synthesized and generalized, and additional research has been conducted where necessary, to produce a resource that is relevant to communities throughout Minnesota. The original student report can be found at https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/194807.

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Report compiled and edited by Sarah Strain, a graduate research assistant with the Resilient Communities Project.

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This project was supported by the Resilient Communities Project (RCP), a program at the University of Minnesota whose mission is to connect communities in Minnesota with U of MN faculty and students to advance local sustainability and resilience through collaborative, course-based projects. RCP is a program of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA). More information at http://rcp.umn.edu. Funding for the report was provided by GreenStep Cities, a program of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. More information at https://greenstep.pca.state.mn.us.

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Strain, Sarah (editor). (2016). Defining Sustainability in City Policy: A Resilient Communities Project–GreenStep Cities Guide. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208355.

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