Sustainable Development By the year 2200 there will be a lot more people living on this planet then there are now. Estimates range anywhere from 15 to 36 billion people. Where will these people live? How will they live? The answer is sustainable development. Sustainable development‚ "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. " It also‚ "requires meeting the basic needs of all peoples and extending to them the opportunity
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sustainability Transport management is one way on which urban areas can attempt to be more sustainable. It usually involves either changing the type of transport‚ for example cycling and waking instead of using vehicles. It could include using alternative fuels or promoting and organising modes of transport to encourage the population to use a particular type which would make the urban area more sustainable. Sustainable is defined as ensuring we meet our present needs without compromising the needs of future
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: 1) the concept of needs‚ in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor‚ to which overriding priority should be given 2) the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs." Over the past two decades
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Science‚ Medicine and Technology What is sustainable development? Sustainable development has been defined in many ways‚ but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future‚ also known as the Brundtland Report:[1] Sustainable development has various definitions; a well-known definition is that of the Brundtland Report. According to the Brundtland Report‚ "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
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ENERGY MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES INTRODUCTION In the modern days energy has the significant role in our life. With development where we got comfortable life and much modern facilities where we got some problem with excessive use of energy resources as declining of energy sources‚ climate change. So it is an big challenge for present and future generations as the cost of energy increase and its supply decrease‚ older buildings needs to modified and new buildings designed to use less energy. The optimization
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF NORTH EAST AND LADAKH ABSTRACT Tourism acts as a backbone for majority of nations especially the growing economies while the adverse impacts of tourism on the environment and the sociocultural are not ignorable. The tourism sector‚ if driven well in the right direction‚ can play a holistic process of economic‚ social and environmental sustenance as well as development. Sustainable form of tourism not only ensures the profitable income but also
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Introduction to Agenda 21 v The Earth Summit held in Rio De Janerio‚ Brazil was attended by 178 country leaders (including Malaysia) on June 1992. The Earth Summit provides world’s action plan towards sustainable development. This action plan was known as Agenda 21 - an agenda to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century. Agenda 21 is designed as a bridge v between environment and development v between the public and private sectors v between governments and civil society v between
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Sustainable Architecture for a Sustainable Future Our environment today suffers from many issues. The most important one from a constructor’s point of view would be the resources depletion problem. Freshwater resources are declining‚ the soil is loosing its fertility‚ and there is a crucial shortage in basic minerals such as zinc‚ copper‚ and phosphorus. These deficiencies would definitely lead to a slowdown in construction growth. According to Rehan Ahmed (2012) construction is the less sustainable
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renewable energy sources have long been debated‚ and examined but environmentalists such as Thomas Friedman believe that the use and production of sustainable energy resources is the way of the future and particularly vital to the advancement of the human race and the world‚ as we know it. As renewable energy sources such as solar power continue to become a more sought after approach for our everyday energy needs‚ engineers and environmentalists are developing innovative ideas for renewable energy and
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Sustainable Development......the “TERM” Sustainable development is important for human life on a finite planet. It makes a desirable future state for the human societies in which the living conditions and proper resource-use meet many human needs without undermining the finite sustainability of natural systems along with the environment keeping in mind that future generations may also have all of their needs met. As stated in the ’Brundtland Report’ “Sustainable development is development that
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