Shared Community-Based Governance

Sustainability in society and economy calls for public and private actors to establish socially responsible principles in policy making, finance, education, consumption, taxing, pricing, and use of environmental assets. Intangible factors like social and relational capital represent the soft asset, which favors the orientation of companies, institutions, and organizations rooted in a territorial community toward social and responsible paths of governance capable of enhancing social cohesion and generating social and economic innovation. Territorial paths of shared governance activated by local networks of actors that share a common set of values and are oriented to mutual goals are capable of leading and preserving sustainability over time.