Abstract
A Conceptual Study on Sustainable Communities and Ecological Citizenship
Protecting and sustaining ecological environment includes a wide range of technical and strategic issues such as action plans, projects related to renewable energy sources, environmental organizations, public and local government models and environmental justice. The researches done in this field have determined that the most effective step that can be taken to protect ecological values is to determine the tools and policies that will take society into action in this regard. The quest for public policy in the name of continuation of environmental value has created new systems from sustainable communities to eco-logical citizenship that organize environmentally responsible behav-ior of societies. Communities, depending on their historical back-ground and cultural characteristics, have behavioural patterns that differ in their protection of the natural environment they live in.
Keywords
Sustainable Communities, Environmental Values, Ecological Environment
