1) An eco-village is a “human scale,” which refers to a population within which it is possible to know and be known by others and to feel a personal impact on the community. Generally the population where this can be achieved is about 100 to 500 people.
2) Sustainable Community. The more general term "sustainable community" includes eco-villages, but it also includes clusters and networks of eco-villages, and non-geographically based communities (such as businesses) that are nevertheless human-scale in their components, diverse, and harmoniously integrated into the natural world. In this sense, an eco-village is a distinct place, either as a rural village or as an urban or suburban neighborhood. A city could not be an eco-village, but a city made up of eco-villages could be a sustainable community.
3) Beside that, Eco-villages grow out of the needs and opportunities caused by:
• new ecological constraints - which grow out of high levels of population and technological capability;
• new techniques and technologies, from better understanding of ecosystems to more diverse channels of communications; from efficient technologies for renewable resource use to new forms of human organization; and
• new levels of consciousness and awareness, symbolized in part by the picture of the Earth from space, with all that means in terms of global consciousness and an awareness of the many-billion-year history of life on this one small planet in the vastness of the Universe.
4) And Eco-Village system have a lot og challenges, sme of them are:
-The built-environment challenge
-The bio-system challenge
-The economic system challenge
-The whole-system challenge
-The governance challenge
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