Implementing a Strategic Resilience and Sustainability Plan: From Policies to Initiatives, Programs, and Projects

Overview

Chapter five details the implementation of a strategic resilience and sustainability plan, describing programs and initiatives in communities to achieve resilient and sustainable organizations and communities. Furthermore, the book chapter outlines the activities, initiatives, and outcomes, the championing and implementing the strategic resilience and sustainability plan. Moreover, an extensive review of the implementation of resilient and sustainable energy practices, initiatives, and projects is provided. The four distinct domains of Quadruple Bottom Line (QBL) and corresponding implementation strategies are governance, economic, environmental, and social functions of resilient and sustainable community planning. Modern cities, townships, villages, and counties implement comprehensive, quantifiable resilience and sustainability projects and initiatives with an ultimate goal of cost and carbon reduction, a healthier environment, a more robust economy, improved social outcomes, and efficient service delivery and good governance.

“What one can observe in the world, however, is that neither the state nor the market is uniformly successful in enabling individuals to sustain long-term, productive use of natural resource systems. Further, communities of individuals have relied on institutions resembling neither the state nor the market to govern some resource systems with reasonable degrees of success over long periods of time.”

(Ostrom 1990, p. 1).