Community Functioning That Fosters Sustainable Social Well-Being

Abstract

In this chapter, sustainability is viewed from the perspective of ecological integrity, exploring ways it has impacted social well-being. The underlying assumption is that deepening dimensions of community will result in more sustainability as well as better social well-being. The chapter presents the idea that caring capital, where mutual caring enables social well-being, is instrumental to providing the structure for sustainably maintaining social well-being at the community level. Ecovillage communities are provided as the case, to illustrate the ideas the relationships between caring capital and sustainability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)