To meet the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow.
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What are the needs of today?
Health and welfare needs, soil needs, economic needs, political needs, environmental needs
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How can sustainability be improved?
Minimising ecological footprint, improving the quality of the living environment, waging war on deprivation and discrimination, raising public participation in government and decision making, ensuring a sound economic base
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What input actions can be considered to make urban areas more sustainable?
Conserve natural resources, ensure efficient use of resources, protect biodiversity, respect environmental capacity
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What internal actions can be considered to make urban areas more sustainable?
Recycle waste, provide 'green' infrastructure, make living space healthy and secure, reuse brownfield sites, make urban areas more compact, reduce use of private car, create a fairer society, encourage wider participation in decision making
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What output actions can be considered to make urban areas more sustainable?
Minimise emissions and pollution, restrict use of greenfield sites, meet leisure and recreation needs
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What is the carrying capacity?
The number of people who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits and without degrading the environment for present and future generations.
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What is the total ecological footprint of London (average footprint times number of people)
125 times vcity's built up area
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What is urbanised land?
Land used to meet the needs of the population of a town or city
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How does sustainability work in practice?
Buy appropriate products (fair trade), become involved in pressure groups, recycle, become informed, support active NGOs such as Water Aid and check personal ecological footprint
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What was agreed at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992?
The best starting point to achieve sustainable development is at a local area.
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What percentage of the action items of Agenda 21 relate to local councils?
2/3 as each local authority has had to draw up Local Agenda 21 strategy
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What has been agreed as part of the Local Agenda 21 in Liverpool?
Public and city council have drawn up own indicators regarding what is to be considered sustainable development.
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What are the case studies for sustainable development?
Bedzed development London and also Dongtan, China
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Why are cars discouraged in Bedzed?
Due to the aims of the project
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How far is Bedzed from the nearest Tube station?
Just five munutes
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While homes such as in Bedzed can be made carbon neutral what is the issue associated with such developments?
Making the infrastructure carbon neutral is much more difficult.
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How many metres sq of solar panels are there in Bedzed?
777
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In what way is Bedzed water efficient?
Collected rainfall is used
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What was the design principle of Bedzed in terms of the materials used for the development?
Materials are locally sourced from within 35 minutes of the development
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What car company does Bedzed work with?
UKs leading car share company, City Car Club
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How much lower are the space-heating requirements of Bedzed?
88% lower
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What has been learnt by attempts at sustainable city development?
It is necessary to radically change the lifestyles of residents, from a total commitment to recycling to beingable to live without a car.
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How many new cities are planned in China over the next two decades to promote urbanisation?
400 new cities to accommodate some of the 300 million or more people that Chian wants to move from rural to urban cities
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What is the largest city in China?
Shanghai ion the southern shores of the Yangtse delta
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Where will Dongtan be built?
Close to Shanghai on the island of Chongming - one of the last undeveloped spaces in the Shanghai area
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How large will the new city of Dongtan be?
8800 hectares, expected to house several million people
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What will the first phase of development of Dongtan consist of?
A transport hub, port to accommodate fast ferries, education complex and housing
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When will the first phase of development of Dongtan be completed?
2010
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What is an issue associated with the development of Dongtan?
Will be built on agricultural land, disturb wetland and wildlife refuge adjacent to it.
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What are the needs of today?
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Health and welfare needs, soil needs, economic needs, political needs, environmental needs
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How can sustainability be improved?
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What input actions can be considered to make urban areas more sustainable?
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What internal actions can be considered to make urban areas more sustainable?
i can't believe this resource has only got 3 stars. it has made me understand and perfectly answered the question "with reference to located examples, show how planning and management practices enable urban areas to become increasingly sustainable (jan 2009 past paper).
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