Tools/Asset Mapping and Indicator Projects
Organizations
CommunityWalk
Here's an interesting site for asset-mapping your communitie's resources. It
is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interactive, and engaging maps. The possibilites for community asset-mapping are inspiring.
GTI is a global network for elaborating visions and strategies for a future of enriched lives, human solidarity and a healthy planet. By addressing the need for a coherent, plausible, and shared vision, GTI complements the many admirable, but fragmented, efforts to shape our common future. GTI's vision of hope challenges conventional thinking, counters pessimism, and inspires effective action and new values.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Founded in 1990, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is in the business of promoting change towards sustainable development. Through our research and through effective communication of our findings, we engage decision-makers in government, business, NGOs and other sectors to develop and implement policies that are simultaneously beneficial to the global economy, the global environment and to social well-being.
Redefining Progress (RP) works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability through measuring the real state of our economy, our environment, and social justice with tools like the Genuine Progress Indicator and the Ecological Footprint.
The Green Communities Program: US Environmental Protection Agency
The Green Communities program, through a 5-step planning process, provides tools and information to help your community help itself become more sustainable.
Guides
Canadian Rural Partnership Asset Mapping: A Handbook
The focus of this handbook is community asset mapping-- essential for the maintenance of rural life and vital for the sustainability of the economy, society and environment in rural Canada.
Coping with Growth: Community Needs Assessment Techniques
This introduction provides background information
on the purposes for conducting a community needs
assessment; guidelines for determining which techniques
are most appropriate; and a brief description
of 13 different needs assessment techniques,
including the advantages of each method and a list
of references to which the reader can go for further information.
Crossroads Resource Center for Urban Ecology Coalition
Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Guidebook: How to Create Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators in your Neighborhood.
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets
A Community-Building Workbook
from the
Asset-Based Community Development Institute,
School of Education and Social Policy,
Northwestern University.
Education Resources Information Center
Resources for asset asset-based community development (ABCD), which draws on appreciative inquiry; the recognition of social capital; participatory approaches to development, which are based on principles of empowerment and ownership; collaborative economic development models that place priority on making the best use of a community’s resource base; and efforts to strengthen civil society by engaging people as citizens rather than clients (Mathie and Cunningham 2002).
Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan
This document is still property of Rob Hopkins and Kinsale FEC, please acknowledge the work that went into this if you reproduce any of this work in other places.
Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Report on a Best Practice Workshop
This community workshop was hosted by the School of Urban Planning, McGill University and the Urban Ecology Center/SodecM (la Société de développement communautaire de Montréal), in Montreal, June 10-11, 2005.
Preparing for a Collaborative Community Assessment
Outlines strategies for conducting community assessments
from the Iowa State University Continuing Education and Communication Services.
The Community Sustainable Development Action and Knowledge Inventory
Produced by the International Institute for Sustainable Development in 2005
Identifying Community Assets and Resources.
The Earth Charter Community Action Tool (EarthCat)
A guide to developing and implementing a community sustainability plan. Using EarthCAT, you will be able to learn from the experiences of other communities as you set goals and targets, develop strategies to achieve them, and select indicators for monitoring your progress towards a more sustainable future.
Books
Guide to Sustainable Community Indicators
The guide explains both sustainability and indicators, and encourages the reader to begin to use indicators or to improve indicators already in use.