# Inclusive Processes

**Mechanisms:** [**Principles**](https://mapc.gitbook.io/healthy-community-design/social-environment/inclusive-processes/principles)**,** [**Tools**](https://mapc.gitbook.io/healthy-community-design/social-environment/inclusive-processes/tools)

Social environments can be transformed through inclusive organizing and planning processes that stimulate interpersonal and community relationships and build attachments to civic and community spaces. `i`

**Social capital**, specifically **bridging** and **linking** capital, seem to be critical components of a community’s social environment, enabling people to be resilient in the face of disaster and leverage power for equitable change ([Learn more about Social Capital](https://mapc.gitbook.io/healthy-community-design/social-environment)). Processes that meaningfully engage, or are driven by, community in planning for changes to the built environment are associated with bridging and linking social capital. `ii`

### Mechanisms

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[principles](https://mapc.gitbook.io/healthy-community-design/social-environment/inclusive-processes/principles)
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[tools](https://mapc.gitbook.io/healthy-community-design/social-environment/inclusive-processes/tools)
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`i` *Clayton, S., Manning, C. M., Speiser, M., & Hill, A. N. (2021). Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Inequities, Responses. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, and ecoAmerica.* [*https://ecoamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/mental-health-climate-change-2021-ea-apa.pdf*](https://ecoamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/mental-health-climate-change-2021-ea-apa.pdf)

`ii` *Kyne, D., & Aldrich, D. P. (2020). Capturing bonding, bridging, and linking social capital through publicly available data. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 11(1), 61-86.*

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