Unit 5 - Livable Communities

Question 1

What’s liveability?

Answer 1

All the characteristics of a community that contribute to the quality of life of the people who live there

Question 2

What’s sustainability?

Answer 2

Improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems.
- must ensure people with a lower standard of life have access to the resources needed to improve it.

Question 3

What’s carrying capacity?

Answer 3

The ability of the environment to support a population without environmental damage.
- Need to live within the limits of available resources so future generations will be able to live as we do

Question 4

How can we balance liveability and sustainability?

Answer 4

On a global basis, we must

• meet basic needs
• satisfy wants
• be able to afford needs and wants
• do this while minimizing impact on the environment

Question 5

What’s land use?

Answer 5

Various functions of land in an urban or rural area

Question 6

What’s residential density?

Answer 6

A measure of the number of housing units per hectare

Question 7

What are lower-order goods and services?

Answer 7

Goods and services that are purchased frequently. Generally these goods and services are inexpensive

Question 8

What are higher-order goods and services?

Answer 8

Goods and services that are used infrequently. These goods and services are quite specialized and expensive

Question 9

What’s an official plan?

Answer 9

An important document that all municipalities must have that lays out the general policies to be followed to achieve long-term planning goals

Question 10

What’s zoning?

Answer 10

The result of detailed planning process that specifies exactly what land uses are allowed in each part of municipality.

Question 11

What’s land-use zoning?

Answer 11

Creation of 2 documents the official plan of a municipality and detailed zoning maps based on the official plan.

Question 12

What’s land use conflict?

Answer 12

A situation that exists when adjacent land uses interfere with each other in some way. Noise, smell, dust, traffic, air/water pollution

Question 13

What’s urbanization?

Answer 13

Growth in the percentage of a country’s population that lives in cities and towns.

Question 14

What’s urban growth?

Answer 14

Growth in the number of people who live in cities and towns.

Question 15

What’s urban sprawl?

Answer 15

Large uncontrolled expansion of cities onto adjacent rural lands.

Question 16

What are green belts?

Answer 16

An area of rural land around a city that cannot be built on.

Question 17

What are some advantages of the green belt?

Answer 17

Protect and promote natural environment for humans and animals. Help clear our air, filter our water and maintain biodiversity.

Question 18

What’s a 20-minute neighbourhood?

Answer 18

A community in which important destinations are within 1.6km.

Question 19

What’s the human development index?

Answer 19

The human development index (HDI) is a measure of overall quality of life that combines measures of wealth, health, and education.

Question 20

What’s an ecological footprint?

Answer 20

An ecological footprint is used to measure the demands that individuals pace on the natural environment.

Question 21

What’s gross domestic product per capita?

Answer 21

The GDP is a measure of the size of an economy, in dollars, divided by population. It’s the most commonly used measure of health

Question 22

What’s gross national happiness?

Answer 22

A measure of the happiness of a population

Question 23

What’s environmental performance index?

Answer 23

The EPI is a UN- produced measure for evaluating performance in a wide range of environmental fields

Question 24

What’s happy planet index?

Answer 24

The HPI is a measure that combines quality of life and sustainability