Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development

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  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT  Environmental Management and Sustainability Engr. Mary Anne A. Baterina  Sustainability Issues Discussant  Is it possible to build Jo B. Bitonio, DPA sustainable communities? Professor  What makes a community sustainable?
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY In general, Environmental management and sustainability deals with managing the bodies of water, land and atmosphere based on the Sustainability issues and principles. In this relation, land use change is important to the management of biosphere because of the changes made in the environment by the urbanization, agriculture, forest, woodland, grassland and pasture. All these factors have great effects on the global bodies of water, carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles of the earth‟s atmosphere.
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES Other factors that gradually destroys the earth‟s atmosphere include:  air pollution in cities;  the pollutants including toxic chemicals like nitrogen dioxide, sculpture oxides, volatile organic compounds and particulate matter that produce photochemical smog and acid rain; and  and the chlorofluorocarbons that degrade the ozone layer. Due to these serious man-made pollutants, global dimming may even disturb the global water cycle through decreasing the evaporation and rainfall in some areas in the earth. It also creates a cooling effect and this may have partially masked the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming.
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 Major factors that increased the levels of dissolve carbon dioxide in the earth‟s atmosphere.  illegal fishing,  coral bleaching,  ocean acidification and  widespread of sea pollution caused by human wastes The only human remedies that can be done include the proper waste disposal management, statutory control and regulation of illegal forestation, overfishing through a sustainable fishing practices; as well as the use of environmentally sensitive and sustainable aquaculture and fish farming, reduction of fossil fuel emissions from industrial areas and restoration of coastal and other marine habitat.
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 IS IT POSSIBLE TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES? Sustainable communities sprouted in support to the general concept of sustainable development that basically advocates living and doing business without destroying and endangering the potential interest of other people and the environment. Today, sustainable development is one of the issues addressed by international environmental law (Schwab and Brower 1997). The growing consciousness of people and the public on the importance of balance in human activity and natural resources as well as the increasing cases of violations of environmental protection policies and regulations make sustainable development a global subject and concern. In effect, the term „sustainable communities‟ was coined to describe a group of people or an organization that has sustainable development agenda.
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 The challenge of keeping balance between the concept of development and the environment‟s welfare is among the main reasons on why people need sustainable communities. People need sustainable communities in order to promote progressive way of life under environment-friendly circumstances. Banerjee (2002) “believes that when environmental initiatives within a business context were positioned within the framework of productivity improvement, cost savings, and purposes of eliminating defects, the business will prosper”
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 There are specific problems the national governments need to address in order to stick into its sustainable communities' policy:  Public participation and partnership  economic ambiguity According to Davies (2002), greater public participation and partnership is sought in promoting sustainable communities and implementing policies. Generating participation and partnership among the members of the public is difficult. Davies (2002) argues that “partnerships for sustainable communities are not located in a governance vacuum: they are situated in wider issues of local democracy and public participation”
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 On the other hand, there is an economic issue of ambiguity particularly among business organizations. Analyzing sustainable development has always been the weakness of the science of economics (Keong 2005). Taking the general case of businesses, the difficulty of authorities in tackling sustainable communities‟ policies is inherent to the issue of financial limitations.
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 WHAT MAKES A COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE? There is a strong commitment to development without risking individual and environmental interests. A community is sustainable when there is support from all stakeholders (i.e. government, people, and other institutions). The national leadership is always on the lookout particularly on issues that needs immediate attention.  Strict implementation of laws and regulations is practiced.  All members of the population are aware of their roles as nature‟s stewards.  Education is important because it is where consciousness originates and develops.  On the case of economy, a sustainable community is able to produce sufficient amount of resources to sustain its continuous activities towards eventual growth.
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  Saturday, October 27, 2012 References: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_and_environmental_management) http://www.staffs.ac.uk/courses_and_study/courses/sustainability-and- environmental-management-tcm4212657.jsp) Davies, A (2002, June) „Power, Politics and networks: Shaping partnerships for sustainable communities‟, Area, 34: 2, 190-203 Keong, CY (2005) „Sustainable Development – An Institutional Enclave‟, Journal of Economic Issues, 39: 4, 951-972 Schwab, AK & Brower, DJ (1997, April) „Sustainable Development: Implementation at the Local Level‟, Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, 3-7 http://ivythesis.typepad.com/term_paper_topics/2010/05/is-it-possible-to-build- sustainable-communities.html#ixzz27v8Btdk2