Culture and community identity are vital to keeping ways of life alive, intangible ones included (customs, practices, know-how, languages and spirituality), while leaving room for, and encouraging, heritage and tradition to develop. Under 4.6.1 every strategy, programme, project, plan and service the organization carries out must take this issue into account and contribute to the six purposes of sustainability; the standard's table for this issue offers example questions for the cross-analysis, one per purpose: how far policies and strategies expand, maintain or erode the sense of identity and how cultural policies contribute to attractiveness; how far the natural environment inspires identity and values; whether changes in culture and identity are expected, why and when; how culture is used to raise awareness of responsible resource use; how accessibility and affordability of cultural events are ensured; and what chances people have, alone or together, to build a sense of identity of their own.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.