Contents -- Preface: The Importance of Community -- Introduction -- Vision -- 1 Sustainable Development Begins at Home: Community Solutions to Global Problems -- Connections -- 2 Social Evolution and Urban Systems: Directions for Sustainability -- Action -- 3 Systemic Crisis in Rural Newfoundland: Can the Outports Survive? -- 4 Community Change in Context -- 5 Northern Communities and Sustainable Development in Canada's North -- 6 Sustainable Communities and Sustainable Agriculture on the Prairies -- 7 The Canadian Pacific Salmon Fishery: Issues in Resource and Community Sustainability -- 8 Incorporating Postproductivist Values into Sustainable Community Processes -- 9 Natural Capital and Social Capital: Implications for Sustainable Community Development -- 10 The Civic State, Civil Society, and the Promotion of Sustainable Development -- Assessing Progress -- 11 Concepts, Cosmologies, and Commitment: Using Biodiversity Indicators in Critical Zones Models -- Conclusion -- 12 Making Communities the Strong Link in Sustainable Development -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.