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Building on the first chapter, the second chapter outlines and defines processes in determining the appropriate steps and resources in sustainability and resilience planning for organizations. The second chapter is intended to provide answers to the primary potentials and queries related to existing strategies plan, long-term goals, vision, values, and core mission of an organization pursuing sustainability and resilience planning. It enables the readers to understand the external and internal dynamic of organizational commitment to sustainability and resilience, threats, opportunities and to evaluate them in the context of budgetary and financial circumstances surrounding the organization. Chapter 2 maps out the sustainability and resilience planning process for organizations and communities, determining the appropriate steps to be taken at each level of sustainability and resilience planning. The sustainability planning process includes the environmental scan, mapping out the current conditions and available internal resources, and the capacity of the organization, and an analysis of opportunities that may exist in the community, region, state, and the nation.
“To the multiple valorizations of wild environments can be added mystery. Without mystery life shrinks. The completely known is a numbing void to all active minds. Even a laboratory rat seeks the adventure of the maze.” Page 146, The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson
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Alibašić, H. (2018). Mapping Out the Sustainability and Resilience Process for Organizations and Communities. In: Sustainability and Resilience Planning for Local Governments. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72568-0_2
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