Sustainable Communities Projects

Sustainability is not only about the lifestyles and behaviours of individual consumers or the activities of particularly businesses. Many of the solutions to sustainability challenges are only likely to be provided through collective solutions and through co-operative efforts within communities and between businesses, communities and consumers. BRASS has played a leading role in research into how more sustainable communities might be developed, particularly from the perspective of developing skills and leadership within communities that can deliver more sustainable lifestyles. As part of a major project for the ESRC and the Association of Sustainable Communities BRASS also developed an innovative virtual sustainable community.