Improved community initiative, responsibility and adaptability. A community that is responsible for its own future shares a well-crafted and widely considered vision for the future, turns it into reality through strategic local action, and makes changes when conditions or assumptions change. A community that monitors and documents the results of its actions, and that regularly reflects on its progress and barriers, learns from its experience. It becomes more resilient, more capable of adapting to change, and better able to improve its efforts and sustain itself over time. Sustainable, healthy ecosystems with multiple community benefits.
Human 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. Human communities plan and act in concert with the natural systems in which they are located. Appropriately diverse and healthy economies. Vital economies deploy financial, natural and human resources to create, maintain and improve local livelihoods.