1. Introduction
This report covers the importance of practicing sustainable development in countries such as Singapore and Delhi, India, as they experience a growing population and economy. For a country’s economy to grow, it is crucial for its population size to grow as well. However, as a country’s population increases, the more arduous it becomes to maintain sustainable development. Sustainable development consists of ensuring balance between local and global efforts to meet basic human needs without destroying or degrading the natural environment.
Experiencing economic growth alone is insufficient if no there are no means to maintain a high standard of living. This essay will also focus on the measures taken to support development of green cities like Singapore, the impact of population growth and
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With a rate that is too fast, the city faces many issues that affect the people and the economy. However, with this issue at hand, Delhi does not seem to be implementing proper initiatives for sustainable development. Firstly, with population size that is too large for the land size, Delhi faces severe cases of traffic congestion. As there are too many private vehicles on roads that are not wide enough, massive jams occur. This raises the level of environmental pollution to exceedingly high values. As a measure to rectify this, the government has introduced a decongestion plan for the city. The establishment of the Delhi Metro is one part of the progress towards improving the transport system. The Delhi Metro is a mass rapid transit serving Delhi and the outskirt cities. Phase 2 of the Metro lines have already been completed and phase 3 are due, end of 2016. However, the improvement in traffic conditions are not significant as a majority of the population still commute using private vehicles. Stricter laws have to be enforced by the government if the traffic conditions are to be
This policy effects the social equity of the city by making sure that all residential streets are uniform in speed limit. The policy also effects the parking areas that are regulated by fines with no park
Most drivers don’t go more than 15 miles per hour over the posted limit. Additionally, slower speeds would facilitate smoother merging and crossing busy highways, reducing fatal
According to National Motorist Association if speed limits were raised and all lanes were moving the same speed, traffic would move so much smoother because it is assumed that everyone has an ideal speed at which they feel comfortable on the freeway and all those people on the freeways driving at that ideal comfortable speed will improve traffic flow. This will not only get you to your destination faster, but it will keep everyone of you safe. The National Motorist Association conducted an experiment in New York and results showed a reduction in automobile accidents. So I think that if Germany and the study in New York proved the reduction in accidents, then I will definitely work throughout the rest of the
Should this only apply to sicknesses that might cause death or just any common illness? Should people with bad colds who just want to get home run through any light that impedes them? My reasons for ignoring the law are creating a dangerous precedent and securing a loophole for violating almost every traffic law on the books. If I do this it would become harder for us to continue to write the legal story of our society in a consistent manner. My personal agenda is breaking with the overall flow of the narrative of our legal system.
According to the argument, the author claims that the Prunty County should emulate Butler County to improve the conditions of the road to reduce the traffic addident rate. Unfortunately, the author has to further the argument with addithional evidence before she can legitimately come to the conclusion. To begin with, although the number of accidents has not decreased, it doesn 't necessarily mean that to lower the speed limitation from 55 to 45 miles per hour is of no use at all. Clearly, the author assumes that the number of accidents is equal to the degree of highway safety. However, how severe are these accidents are not mentioned.
Jonathan Swift’s essay, A Modest Proposal, is famous for satirically suggesting that people start selling their babies for food, which would logically solve the overpopulation and starvation problem in the world. Despite this less than feasible solution, overpopulation is a serious problem in the world, given that there are over seven billion people alive currently. The excessive amount of people living in this world has an adverse effect on both society and the environment. The environment has been destroyed by human pollution and is depleted of natural resources due to the sheer amount of materials needed to support such a large population. In fact, many plastic water bottles used by people are discarded as trash and pollute bodies of water (Soechtig & Lindesy, 2009).
Recently had the pride label as “Smart City”, It is also one of the fastest growing tier-II cities in India & a major hub for Manufacturing, Textiles, Education & Medical Fields. Political Factors: 1. Government focus is on Automobile Sector since it is a big source for revenue generation. 2.
The problems caused by speed limits on the highways can not only be solved by looking at the many mistakes in thinking that people have about speed but by looking at the many advantages of no speed limits on
I agree with the assertion that in the context of Sustainable Development ‘the reality of life today is that the economy dominates environment and society. The Concept of Sustainable Development Sustainable development refers to “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”, and was produced by the Brundtland report (WCED, 1987). The concept also takes into account the needs of the poor in developing countries by outlining achievable objectives of importance (WCED, 1987).
Introduction Overpopulation is the excessive population of an area to the point of overcrowding and it is an undesirable condition in every country where the number of existing human population rises to an extent exceeding the carrying capacity of ecological setting. Overpopulation can be result from an increase in births, an increase in immigration, a decline in mortality rates and other factors that may cause overpopulated environment. Therefore, this can cause influence as lack of the available essential materials for survival like water, shelter, social amenities and other because of the numbers of people might be more than the materials for survival. In such condition, this regularly contributes to environmental deterioration, worsening
Sustainable development is a model that aims to link the idea of what is to be sustained, with what is to be developed, and focuses on three pillars, economics, social and environmental (Kates, Parris, and Leiserowitz, 2005; pp. 3). As a holistic approach it seeks to develop the three pillars, on a local, regional and global level. This paper will analyse the concept of sustainable development and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach will be discussed. Firstly, a background of this model will be presented, which will explore the three pillars. Secondly, the strengths and weaknesses will be evaluated, and lastly, a brief contrast will be provided of the opinions of sustainable development between the Global North and Global South.
Another important issue that even students get late to their school and everything will not be in time. Congestion always happens when people go and come from work so employs play a big part in congestion and it happens especially in big cities as the streets are big and people have their own cars not like towns or villages. In big cities, people prefer to use more their own private cars than using public transport but in towns they prefer the public transport. So, in big cities there will always be traffic jam as there are so many private cars in the street. When cars are banned then the traffic jam would disappear and people will be able to arrive in time and won’t affect
Sustainability: If you take a look around at what’s really happening in our world, there’s an inescapable pattern of ‘what’s going on is simply unsustainable’ and in other words, it can’t go on for much longer. Sustainability is to “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. As cities began to grow with the population increase, the need for a sustainable development became more apparent as resources began to diminish in quantity and value. Left to it’s own devices, the Earth is a sustainable system.
Global climate change constitutes arguably the single most important threat to mankind. From the onset of the industrial revolution, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO2) have increasingly built up in the atmosphere, causing the climate to warm up slowly but steadily (IPCC, 2014). NASA predicts that 2016 will mark the hottest year on record. The effects of global warming are ubiquitous: Greenland’s glacier and the Arctic ice cap are melting, ocean levels are rising, occurrences of extreme weather are increasing, including hurricanes and areas of either intense drought or flooding. Collectively, these changes and their direct consequences are an imminent danger and they directly affect other urgent issues humanity is
Green growth and green economy have been subject to various definitions but those currently being used by international organizations have a lot in common. Greening growth (GG) and moving towards a greener economy (GE) is complex and multidimensional. Green growth is a matter of both economic policy and sustainable development policy. It tackles two key imperatives together: the continued inclusive economic growth needed by developing countries to reduce poverty and improve wellbeing; and improved environmental management needed to tackle resource scarcities and climate change. The concept of green economy rests on the economy, the environment and the social pillars of sustainable development.