Sustainable Community Development
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This was the first curriculum-based learner dialogue to be held for the online Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management at Royal Roads University. Sustainable development demands fundamental transformations are required in all sectors of society, including changes to our social, economic and governance structures, coupled with shifts in cultures and practices. And Canadian communities are on the front-line in trying to integrate changes, particularly single-resource economies. They face formidable challenges in attempting to respond to sustainable development imperatives in rapidly changing global, national and local contexts. Specific challenges include development (economic and social); public health (water, air and land quality); access to and long-term maintenance of natural resources; economic disparities; infrastructure (energy, sewage, transportation, policing); information communications technologies (ICTs); fear of change (powerlessness, breaking traditional dependencies); decreasing levels of civic engagement (volunteerism and voting); fragmentation (rapidly changing demographics, civil conflicts, special interest groups) and governance (decision-making, First Nations and federal/provincial relationships). Over three days, we will be discussing on-line with Dr. Jenny Onyx from the University of Technology at Sydney the meaning of sustainable community development in Canada and Australia.
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