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Sustainable, Healthy Ecosystems with Multiple Community BenefitsExplanationHuman communities are part of natural ecosystems. The responsible stewardship of natural resources sustains businesses and families in communities over the long term. Finding the common ground among people who have emotional, symbolic or economic identification with a place, whether or not they live there, is essential to making decisions about development and resource use that will enable communities and their resource base to survive and thrive. Ecosystems include air, water, soil, biodiversity and landscape. Ecosystem health is maintained best when citizens have and use knowledge about their ecosystem to guide their behavior. Choosing a Community Assessment IndicatorThe first step in measuring progress toward community goals is identifying one or more key indicators of progress. You may wish to consider six separate, but related, aspects of indicators of progress toward sustainable, healthy ecosystems:
Your community will need to identify one or more specific key indicators related to Outcome 4. The indicators you choose should be relevant to your community. The following pages present some examples of indicators and measures for you to consider. You may choose to modify these examples or develop entirely new indicators and measures of greater relevance to your community goals. |
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