Developing Effective School-Community Learning Partnerships for Sustainability

这项研究涉及两个国家关注的领域：实现环境可持续性和加强社会凝聚力，特别是在澳大利亚城市不断扩大的城市增长走廊中。它将制定指导方针，促进建立社会资本作为保护自然资本的社区学习伙伴关系模式。所产生的知识将促进自然资本：水、能源、生物多样性和废物的保护实践，并在地方、州和联邦政府、学校和社区团体网络的广泛支持下，加强Resources Smart和澳大利亚可持续学校倡议(OSSI)等项目的学校-社区合作伙伴关系要素。

The research contributes to 2 areas of national concern:achieving environmental sustainability and strengthening social cohesion, especially in the expanding urban growth corridors of Australian cities. It will develop guidelines for facilitating models of community learning partnerships that build social capital as a vehicle for protecting natural capital. Knowledge generated will advance conservation practices for natural capital:water, energy, biodiversity and waste, and strengthen the school-community partnership elements of programs such as ResourceSmart and the Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AuSSI), supported extensively by networks of local, State and Commonwealth governments, schools and community groups.