GEL Flashcards
What is sustainable urban neighborhood
A neighborhood that meets the needs for current and future needs.
What is economic sustainability
there are enough incomes to sustain neighborhood residents in present and future. due to the AVAILABILITY OF JOBS
what is social sustainability
The well being of residents are taken care off in the present and future. Residents enjoy GOOD PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH, they feel INCLUDED and have a SHARED SENSE OF IDENTITY and are SAFE FROM HAZARDS.
What is environmental sustainability?
It means that the natural environment is maintained for the present and future generation. there is GOOD AIR AND WATER QUALITY. NATIVE SPECIES, HABITATS AND ECOSYSTEMS ARE ABLE TO THRIVE and this LOW CARBON FOOTPRINT.
Examples of ecosystem services and its benefits.
-Food grown from urban initiatives.
-Trees providing shade, preventing overheating, ground surfaces and cooling surrounding air.
- vegetation reducing surface runoff and flood risk, while also absorbing and trapping air pollutants.
What are threats to sustainable Urban Development?
-Hiking along known designated, the trails result in trampling of vegetation and soil compaction, which leads higher runoff and erosion.
- littering causes land pollution
- wild animals can get injured or tangled by trash. Or they made mistake litter for food and consume them which leads to death.
Fire Hazards cause and impacts
Causes:
-Unattended cooking
-Faulty electrical appliances
-Vehicle fires
Impacts:
-Deaths or injuries
-Respiratory difficulties
-Destruction of Goods
Air pollution Causes and Impacts
Cause:
-Industrial and motor emissions
-burning of vegetation
Impacts:
-Respiratory infections
-Lung cancer
-poor health leads to high healthcare costs
-poor health leads to worser worker productivity
Traffic Hazards Causes and Impacts
Causes:
-Irresponsible drivers may cause accidents
Impacts:
-Injuries or loss of life
-removes working adults from workforce
Strategies for economic sustainability
-Sustaining high population density by setting minimum density requirements and encourage mixed use development
-Reduce transport costs to lower cost of living and encourage people to move or Tap on Spacial Associations
Approaches for social sustainability
-Ensure good physical health
-Ensure shared sense of identity/community
-Ensure Safety
How to ensure good physical health
PROVIDE access to clean water, good sanitation and waste management
PROVIDE access to recreational amenities
PROVIDE access to health amenities
How to ensure residents have a sense of identity/community
-Repeated encounters help us remember features and create memories
-Establish local landmarks
-Provide significant/memorable events
how to promote community resilience
-Prevent hazard occurrences by raising awareness
-Improve residents preparedness to respond through
•training
•monitoring and warning systems
How to improve disaster management
Enforcing rules and regulations to maintain safety
Emergency Evacuations
Search and Rescue
Provision of food, water and healthcare
How to improve Environmental Sustainability
CONSERVE:
-Reduce production of new goods by RECYCLING
-Reduce water consumption
PRESERVE:
-Restore natural habitats to enable flora and fauna to reestablish themselves
REVERSE:
-Reduce carbon emissions
-Reduce environmentally destructive activities
-Promote volunteering
What makes data valid
Does it answer the question/prove hypothesis
Sample Size
Consistency
Limitations
