Green economy and development in small urban municipalities: towards sustainable community development

Abstract

Many Canadian localities have put in place economic development strategies and environmental action plans to promote economic prosperity and community sustainability. This paper reports on a survey on green economy and development of environment and economic development professionals and practitioners from two small urban municipalities (SUMs) in Ontario, namely: Orillia and North Bay. This research adopted a 'sustainable community development model' as a framework to explore community efforts (local initiatives) as translated into local environmental strategies and priorities to pursue green development and sustainability. The results indicate the potential to contribute towards place making in the context of sustainability and green economy in terms of defining the development direction of SUMs. Overall, there is a soaring interest on sustainable community development in the two case study SUMs concerning the question of achieving green economy and long-term sustainability.

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“…A green economy is seen as 野an economic activity with the goal of reducing energy consumption and improving environmental quality冶 (Turvey, 2014;Chapple, 2011). While green development is not exactly the same as a green economy, the two are related in terms of their shared focus and objective of moving towards sustainable community development and 耶greening the local economy爷 (Turvey, 2014). The term 野green development冶 is used in this study.…”