ABSTRACT
Chapter 7: Fixing the Shortcomings within Community Design, Planning, and Policy, takes the resource accounting tool of Ecological Footprint Analysis, first developed by Williams E. Rees and Mathis Wackernagel (1996), as a strategy for improving energy and resource usage and waste reduction for a community. Critically, this also must take into consideration the cultural heritage and social traditions for a given place. Due to the significance economics has within contemporary civilization we also include the financial factor as well. Often plans developed by communities for improving environmental sustainability do not always adequately address socio-cultural issues. Likewise, community preservation plans prioritize their emphasis on buildings, neighborhood aesthetics, and cultural events, and while green rehabilitation may be encouraged, more complicated aspects of ecological resource protection are left out. Thus, this chapter explores how heritage preservation planning and environmental planning for purposes of community sustainability can be integrated in various ways.
