Part 1. Vision 1. Social capital and sustainable community development: is there a relationship? - Ann Dale Part 2. Connections 2. Ecological and social systems: essential system conditions - Vivienne Wilson 3. Social ecology as a framework for understanding and working with social capital and sustainable within rural communities - Stuart. B. Hill Part 3. Action 4. Enabling structuring for coodinated action: community organizations, social capital, and rural community sustainable - Jo Barraket 5. Negotiating interorganizational domains: the politics of social, natural and symbolic capital - Suzanne Benn and Jenny Onyx 6. Modelling social capital in a remote australian indigenous community - Paul Memmont and Anna Meltzer 7. Stones: social capital in canadian aboriginal communities - Lesley Moody and Isabel Cordua-von Specht 8. Communities of practice for building social capital in rural Australia: a case study of executiveLink - Sue Kilpatrick and Frank Vanclay 9. Social capital and the sustainable of rural or remote communities: evidence from the australian community survey - Alan Black and Philip Hughes 10. Social capital and sustainable development: the case of broken hill - Jenny Onys and Lynelle Osburn 11. Social capital mobilization for ecosystem conservation - Jennie Sparkes 12. Values, social acceptability, and social capital: the canadian nuclear waste disposal case - Grant Sheng 13. The challenges of traditional models of governance in the creation of social capital - Tony Boydell Part 4. Assessing progress 14. Exciting the collective imagination - James Tansey