SUSTAINABILITY

Critically Review The Need For Applying Sustainability Principles In The Design, Development And Management Of The Built Environment

Abstract

Sustainable development and sustainability is becoming increasingly popular, although the amorphous concept in the past few decades, and many governments, corporations and institutions have taken it as a policy. Concept is related to the biological concept of "bandwidth", or the population that the habitat and resource base can support, and was translated into commonly used sustainability metric known as the "ecological footprint", or land and water required for human resource needs and wastes.

Critically Review The Need For Applying Sustainability Principles In The Design, Development And Management Of The Built Environment

Introduction

Nevertheless, today many connotations of stability, from the progressive design environment or long-term success of a business enterprise to a healthy, vibrant communities with a high quality of life. The most frequently cited definition of sustainable development of the intangible ideal treats (UN) United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, the Brundtland Report, which classifies it as "development that meets the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their own needs. This idea was emphasized in the 1992 UN seminar on natural environment and Development, Agenda 21 and its broader sustainability policies. Three years later, the UN World Summit for Social Development has shown support for the concept, saying that economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and complementary components. More recently, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development listed the three foci of sustainable development: (1) eradicating poverty, (2) protection of natural resources, and (3) changing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.

Literature Review

Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is a concept that is gaining in importance throughout the world today. There are many different definitions of sustainable development, so let me give you one that is universally recognized. According to the World Commission on environment and development, sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present, compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". To be sustainable, development must improve economic efficiency, protect and restore ecosystems and improve the well-being of all peoples. The challenge at all levels--an analysis-system state and the individual. To achieve the goal of sustainable development requires the involvement and cooperation at all levels.

Sustainable development at the level of the system is very important. The goal of sustainable development will never be attained, unless he has attended every thing and below. Sustainable development must be implemented in all countries, whether developed or developing, Democrat Socialist or capitalist autocracies. Since the environment is a global issue and beyond the national boundaries, which create obstacles to sustainable development could not be corrected. Similarly, the policy adopted by States, although useful, may not achieve sustainable development. Example of sustainable development at the level of the greenhouse effect. This is all effects and definitely goes beyond national borders. It's not enough, if one country or even 12 decided to reduce the emissions of CO2 and other gases in the ...