Crafting Sustainable Development: A Case Study Of Maine's Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

Abstract

What do community economic development practitioners have to learn from environmentalists? What does environmentalism stand to gain from CED? By implementing a multi-dimensional concept of sustainability, Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (a long-established community development corporation in Maine) has shed new light on the synergy of principles and practice. This case study is also a very good example of CED operating on a regional basis, well beyond the local focus of RESO (Richard, 2004) or the North End of Winnipeg (Colussi and Perry, 2002)