2.1 geog

• Aspects of environmental sustainability

  • GHG emission
  • Minimise temperature increase
• Aspects of economic sustainability

  • Fair employment, everyone has a job with enough income
  • Small businesses can survive
• Aspects of social sustainability

  • Having enough transport
  • Housing
  • Enough food types
  • Enough common spaces for activities (sense of belonging)
• How can neighbourhoods be sustained environmentally?

  1. Ample protection for nature (allows wildlife to thrive in urban spaces and human-wildlife encounters can be fostered)

  2. Having facilities that support waste minimisation and recycling (conveniently located recycling facilities and infrastructure)

  3. Energy and water-efficient design approaches for building and landscapes (buildings and landscapes in urban areas designed to be energy and water efficient which minimises the use of resources)
• What is development?

  • Development refers to the economic, social and political process which results in improvement of standard living for a population.
  • Countries can be classified according to their level of development based on a combination of economic and social indicators