Sustainable Development for Society
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In class we discussed what sustainable development meant to us; each group had its own definition. Our group’s definition was that sustainable development is for the long term for future generations, for the basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and job. The basic will increase over time and our resources will diminish, which why sustainable development is important. Sustainable development is important for future generations so that they end up with a world better than ours. Sustainable development is achievable if society works together to meet everyone’s basic needs and create a better world.
To make a better world poverty needs to end and the wealth distribution needs to be equally spread to everyone. Poverty is a major problem in the world, most of society is in the lower class. According to the video we watched in class, the top one percent owns forty percent of the wealth. The bottom seventy percent owns three percent of the wealth. We need to even it out by spreading out the wealth. If we were to spread the wealth our economic status would help with sustaining the fu...
In this essay, the author
- Explains that sustainable development is for the long term for future generations, for basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and job. the basic will increase over time and our resources will diminish, which is why sustainability is important.
- Opines that to make a better world poverty needs to end and the wealth distribution should be equally spread to everyone.
- Opines that society is working together to help sort through and find ways to fix the global environmental issues which causes security problems for the world.
- Explains that sustainability originated from the idea of renewable resources like forest, solar, and fishes. the go green movement is also known as environmentalism.
- Argues that sustainable development is important because it will help increase the chance of our still being here for future generations.
- Explains that sustainable development is important because it serves the necessities of the current society without affecting the future generations' ability to succeed. it highlights towards a greater drive to fairness and elevation of poverty.
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- Sustainable Development (SD) is an emerging concept that has evolved over several years and has become the cornerstone of today’s development. This seemingly simple term, “sustainable development” was popularized by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in a report entitled “Our Common Future” in 1987. Back then, Sustainable Development was defined as ‘satisfying the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. However, there is no universal definition of the concept and perhaps there is no need for one. Sustainable Development concerns a process of dynamism and change, it is relatively new and continues to evolve as we gradually learn to grasp its wide repercussions
In this essay, the author
- Explains that sustainable development is an emerging concept that has evolved over several years and has become the cornerstone of today's development.
- Opines that sustainable development is an ever increasing and daunting challenge humanity has ever encountered. it requires that fundamental issues are addressed immediately at local, regional and global levels.
- Explains that oil, coal, and gas are the primary sources of energy production for electricity and heating, transportation, industrial and other uses. investments in sustainable energy have increased dramatically in recent years.
- Explains that the growing world's population aspires to achieve the next level of need satisfaction and higher material living standards, resulting in an unprecedented demand for goods and services.
- Argues that energy production from non-renewable sources is leading the market and resources are on the edge of depletion.
1289 wordsRead More - Sustainable Development: What Is The Idea Of Sustainable Developmentargumentative essayWhat is the Idea of sustainable development? Why is it so important? These are questions that are becoming more common every day because we have come to the realization that we are not achieving this idea. So, sustainable development is the process of reinforcing one’s economy without depleting its resources. This is so important now because we are coming closer and closer to the end of the world we know. Humanity is good at the development part, that’s has been our roles since the beginning of our existence, to use the resources we have today to build a new tomorrow. Our economies are built of exploiting our resources, better known as exports, things like oil, metals are Canada’s top exports, oil, and organic chemicals are Saudi Arabi’s top
In this essay, the author
- Explains that sustainable development is the process of reinforcing one’s economy without depleting its resources.
- Argues that the world's population could have access to clean drinking water for 37 years if china stopped producing steel for one year.
- Explains that oceans are important because they play a verity of roles to other kinds of life. industrial waste from manufacturing products is harmful to ocean water.
- Explains that farming is a key factor in the deterioration of the world's water resources.
- Explains that hydroelectricity is considered a renewable resource, but it has negative consequences on the quality of the water. mining for fossil fuels can pollute local drinking water sources with toxic chemicals.
- Concludes that every country strives to achieve sustainable development by limiting the exploitation of their recourses. manufacturing, farming, and harnessing energy are key factors in economic development.
1660 wordsRead More - Sustainable Development Essayanalytical essayThe interest in the concept of development is not new and has been evolving since the 1950s. The issue of development interests economists and development theorists since the 19th century but the sustainability of development has boomed while becoming the subject of multidisciplinary research during the last decades. Sustainable development redefines the relationship between development and growth. However, growth remains a challenge for developing economies. The concept of sustainability dates back to the early 1980s, it was designed as a new global goal for most international institutions. However their main concerns revolve now around two major phenomena: poverty and inequalities. Sustainable development is the solution to remove poverty in poor countries. Sustainable development should be addressed to two types of poverty, absolute poverty and relative poverty and must be conducted along two major principles: reducing inequality and improving economic growth. Poverty will be reduced when these two conditions are met.
In this essay, the author
- Explains the importance of integrating inequalities in socio-economic assessment of poverty.
- Explains that economic growth may cause some income growth and will reduce poverty, and the effect of income distribution will decrease inequalities.
- Opines that sustainable development redefines the relationship between development and growth, but growth remains a challenge for developing economies.
- Analyzes the relationship between income inequality and economic growth. kuznets' thesis depicts inequality as an inverted-u.
- Explains kuznets' inverted-u curve, where the abscissa is the gdp per capita and orderly inequality is expressed by the gini coefficient, reflects the weakness of gdp in the early stages of development.
- Explains kuznets' assumption of dualism, where he considers two unequal agricultural and non-agricultural sectors.
617 wordsRead More - Sustainable Developmentanalytical essayIn this assignment the author shall discuss the relative extent to which creating sustainable development policies and concepts protect the environment from degradation. We shall critically examine the different approaches to the paradigm, such as UN summits to National policies and also by analysing the different forms of sustainability, and briefly the vagueness and hypocrisies of the term. In addition, we must look at the process of generating these policies and to what extent do they come to fruition. An important question is whether because of the sheer number of stakeholders, (for example countries in the UN or TNCs) that are a part of the process of creating sustainable development plans hinder any large scale change to current environmental policy.
In this essay, the author
- Argues that the paradigm of sustainable development fosters several delusions. the brundtland formula suggests that global industrial output could expand many-fold.
- Argues that sustainability is a major consideration for both urban and rural development, since people have been exploiting natural resources without any concern for the loss of biodiversity.
- Explains that the life cycle assessment assesses the environmental impacts of product systems and services, accounting for the emissions and resource uses during production, distribution, use, and disposal of a product.
- Argues that the global environmental debate is a mixture of anxiety over the capacity of the planet to absorb changes wrought by human activity and concern for the future.
- Argues that un world summits are an important issue which must be addressed when discussing the relative extent of sustainable development on protecting the world's environment.
- Argues that the structural and institutional factors underpinning the traditional paradigm pose problems for the principles of sustainable development.
- Concludes that the proponents of sustainable development are faced with a dilemma that affects any program of political action and environmental degradation.
2206 wordsRead More - Sustainability And Economic Sustainabilityexplanatory essay“It is that which seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present generation without compromising the ability to meet the needs of future generations.”
In this essay, the author
- Explains that it is that which seeks to meet the needs and aspirations of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations.
- Explains that humans like deforestation and adapting to fluctuations in climate change compared to the past.
- Explains that substituting natural gas for coal will reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
- Explains that coal-fired industrial factories drew workers from the country side which created a large amount of jobs. this led to people living in crowded urban environments.
- Explains that economic sustainability is the most problematic issue as people disagree on what is economically sound and how it will affect businesses, jobs and employability.
- Opines that a reduced reliance on cars would improve the transportation system, as it would lead to less greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere.
809 wordsRead More - Educational Data Mining Model to Attain Sustainabilityanalytical essay"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains two key concepts within it:
In this essay, the author
- Explains that data mining is a process of using different algorithms to find useful patterns or models from data.
- Explains that data mining is a link between massive database and analytical systems. data mining software analyzes relationships and patterns in stored data based on open-ended user queries.
- Explains that supervised learning is solved by approximation algorithms like id3 and c4.5 and evolutionary algorithms such as genetic programming.
- Describes unsupervised learning in clustering, where data items are grouped according to logical relationships or users requirements. clusters are formed by portioned algorithms like k-means and their advance forms.
- Explains that data can be mined to identify co-occurrence relationships called associations among the data, which may reveal a new knowledge.
- Describes educational data mining as an emerging interdisciplinary field concerned with developing data mining methods for exploring the massive data of the educational institutions.
- Explains that since 1995 people started working with educational data, but much of the work was on the data available online.
- Explains that zaane used online data of students to study on-line courses. this article became one of the milestones to the edm community proposing and highlighted its usefulness.
- Explains tang and mccalla built a system with simulated students and evaluated it with real students.
- Opines that data mining technology can be used by lecturer, student, alumni, manager, and other educational staff and is a useful tool for decision making on their educational activities.
- Explains that aksenova, zhang, & lu predicted the enrolment of the university using time stamps.
- Explains baker, r.s., corbett, a.t. and koedinger, k.r. used datamining techniques to build the machine learning technique to detect student misuse of intelligent tutoring systems.
- Explains that to form groups/clusters of students depending on their parental income, eligible for getting grants.
- Identifies school leavers, continuation education learners, vocational learners domestics and international students, executive learners.
- Aims to find association between feedback and teacher and assist the teacher for his or her improvement.
- Predicts the number of companies visiting campus and students they will select for projects.
- Explains how to associate the students' book usage with the number of hours to predict the books, subject, authors in demands.
- Explains how to make good partnerships with industries for getting good grants, faculties support, getting internship program, placing students.
- Explains that the students enrollment database predicts students caliber, intelligence, and interest in subject opting for. the faculty database can be helpful to faculties for their research, appraisal and overall talent management.
- Explains that in the proposed model, many of the processes are individually done, but to sustain the overall development is required. every database available with the university can be seen as the assets for research.
- States that v.m. segovia, transforming mindsets through education for sustainable development, international encyclopedia of education, 2010.
- Analyzes the role of higher education institutions in promoting sustainable development, unu-ias editorials and commentaries.
- Cites jana dlouhá, donald huisingh, andrew barton, learning networks in higher education: universities in search of making effective regional impacts.
- Describes s. elatia, d. ipperciel, and a.
- Presents usama fayyad, gregory piatetsky-shapiro, and padhraic smyth's "the kdd process for extracting useful knowledge from volumes of data".
- Cites shu-hsien liao, pei-hui chu, and pe
- Explains ryan s.j.d. baker and kalina yacef's "the state of educational data mining in 2009: a review and future visions."
- Analyzes the comparative analysis of prediction techniques for predicting graduate rate of university in the european journal of scientific research.
- Cites tang, t., mccalla, g. (2005) smart recommendation for an evolving elearning system: architecture and experiment.
- Describes shu-hsien liao, pei-hui chu, yuan hsianhiaou, data mining techniques and applications – a decade review from 2000 to 2011.
- Cites romero, c., ventura, s. (2007). educational data mining: a survey from 1995 to 2005.
- Explains jiawei han and micheline kamber's book, data mining: concepts and techniques.
- Explains the brundtland commision report in the world commission on environment and development.
- Cites zaane, o. 2001, web usage mining for a better web-based learning environment.
- Cites zaane, o. 2002, building a recommender agent for e-learning systems, in proceedings of the international conference on computers in education.
- Explains baker, r.s, corbett, a.t., koedinger, k.r. (2004) detecting student misuse of intelligent tutoring systems.
- Explains that sustainability development started in the 80's era and different meanings and definitions were introduced.
- Argues that universities need to build new business models that are dynamic, modern, and fit for the decades ahead.
- Opines that data mining algorithms can be viewed as compositions of a few of the above basic techniques.
- Proposes a complete higher educational data mining (edm) model that uses the available data from the classroom learning, faculty database, and administrative database to show how the teaching learning process in higher education can be improved.
- Aims to predict students' final year marks from the first yr. marks and other attributes like distance travelled, parents education, income etc. to find association between previous students interest in their seminar and projects topics.
- Explains the purpose of the project: to predict the future leaders, academician, innovator, entrepreneur, etc. in students, and to group / cluster the students interested in social cause and bring social awareness by motivating them.
- Explains brundtland's definition of sustainability as a blend of knowledge and skills, and an ability to work cooperatively with other stakeholders.
2597 wordsRead More - Sustainable Developmentanalytical essayThe following case study critiques Upton’s vision to establish a sustainable community through implementing comprehensive sustainable strategy. The urban periphery development is thought to demonstrate superior execution of sustainable principles in development (Jackson 2007). As a parallel, the report focuses on the development of Upton’s design code and demonstrates how large -scale mix-use developments can incorporate sustainable practice and principles of urban growth.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the case study critiques upton's vision to establish a sustainable community through implementing comprehensive sustainable strategy. the urban periphery development shows superior execution of sustainable principles in development.
- Explains that upton is a 44-ha greenfield site forming part of northampton's 'south west district'. the area is accessible via the a45 and a43 main roads and junctions 15a and 16 of the m1 motorway.
- Explains that upton's premise is a mix-use development, providing economic opportunity and social infrastructure. the scheme aims to deliver 1,382 homes by 2013
- Describes how english partnerships collaborated with northampton borough council, prince's foundation, and edaw to establish the upton working group to apply the project.
- Describes the multi-faceted characteristics of high-quality urban extensions in the report sustainable urban extensions: planned through design.
- Analyzes the physical attributes of a sustainable urban extension, focusing on quality of new housing. however, due to adverse effects of the economic downturn, upton is yet to provide substantial amenities as originally proposed.
- Analyzes how breheny et al (1993) considered the design characteristics of new communities and summarises the dominant tendency towards oversimplified and functional concepts.
- Explains upton's master plan and design code. the design code determines the appearance of streets and physical buildings, which form the main structuring elements of the development.
- Explains jackson's planning policy statements that influenced key stakeholders in the development of the upton master plan.
- Opines that ep's major role was to apply policy for the government’s present commitment to deliver the sustainable communities policy.
- Explains that upton is the first such development in the uk to be strictly controlled by design codes, where the landowner (english partnerships) has set high standards controlling building design, planning practice and landscaping.
- Explains that environmental sustainability is observed across the site and is integrated at the large scale and finer grain. it instructs the layout and urban design of the master plan through building orientation, street networks and rainwater management.
- Explains that upton's master plan is a compact urban structure with local amenities to be provided in proximity to residential builds, aiming to promote walking as the primary mode of movement and reducing their dependence on cars.
- Explains that the upton design code established and set out the standard requirements and development framework on the site. the building character was determined by individual developers and architects.
- Explains that environmental requirements are clearly set out in the design code at upton, and that developers are unrestricted when focusing on the preeminent method of integrating these in design and delivery.
- Explains that upton's design code highlighted the following requirements for social sustainability and cohesion.
- Argues that upton should include an extensive range of dwelling types, sizes, and tenure to provide for those with different incomes. interchangeable affordable housing should be scattered throughout the development.
- Explains the mixed-use development will include a primary school, local shops, live-work units, commercial office, retail, and community uses.
- Explains that the activity focus for upton and other communities within the south west district, including the princess marina, will transpire at the local centre.
- Explains that 85% of the new homes employ new energy and water technologies, though the remaining 15% were not required to use such technologies. the fundamental method in which upton’s housing is achieving environmental targets is through the use of redland photovoltaic tiles
- Describes the benefits of sustainable urban drainage system (suds) in the urban landscape.
- Explains that efficient rainwater management was given high priority during the planning process in the area, which was affected by flooding in 1998.
- Explains that anglican water's infiltration devices couldn't be connected to the adoptable piped system, resulting in permeable paving having to be tanked. the scheme incorporated swales parallel to contour lines to maximise storage and surface area for rainwater to infiltrate.
- Explains that upton is attempting to set a new benchmark for environmental sustainability by effectively utilising innovative and existing sustainable technologies.
- Analyzes how upton addresses economic sustainability through a compact urban form, with an average net density of 44-ha.
2233 wordsRead More - 9. Smith’s report defines sustainable development as, “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Smith’s definition is important to consider, because it illustrates that that we do not have to destroy the natural environment to have economic progress.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that “where are you going, where have you been” is a brilliant, masterful work.
- Opines that david, my friend from work, told them, "you are never going to get anywhere unless you believe in yourself."
- Compares william faulkner's style to ernest hemingways' because both writers employ the modern, technique stream of consciousness.
- Explains that other cultures view americans and their ideas as hedonistic, yet they also see americans as hip, modern, and idealistic. neil postman writes about this problem in his seminal book, "amusing ourselves to death."
- Explains smith's definition of sustainable development, which illustrates that we don't have to destroy the natural environment to have economic progress.
- Advises students to remain calm, polite, and ask questions about anything they do not understand in the bureaucracy of higher education.
482 wordsRead More - Sustainable Development and its Importanceanalytical essaySustainable Development And The Triple Bottom Line Sustainable development means that the present generations should be able to make use of resources to live better lives in such a manner that it doesn’t compromise the ability of future generations to survive and make better lives for themselves as well. For sustainable development to occur, there needs to be sustainable economic, ecological and community development. Society needs to be educated about ways in which they can use resources, especially natural, in such a manner that it doesn’t cause harm to the environment and put future generations lives at risk. Sustainability planning should be made on the local, national and international levels.
In this essay, the author
- Argues that the precautionary principle should be implemented before any development can take place, so as to measure the impact of the proceedings on the environment, community or economy.
- Opines that if we are unable to maintain healthy and clean environments while proceeding with development, it could have a detrimental effect on our health in the long term.
- Opines that human development is mandatory to achieving sustainable development, and that a more sustainable way of dealing with the increasing number of cars is to increase taxes and tariffs paid for using public roads in the inner city.
- Argues that the fight against environmental, economic, and community unsustainability and inequity would be futile if people continued to live in unhealthy environments.
- Argues that sustainable development means that present generations should be able to make use of resources to live better lives and not compromise the ability of future generations.
- Concludes that we should devise a more nature, economy, and community friendly approach towards sustainable development. humans should not be placed before nature.
- Explains braun, b., and harris, j.m. 2000 basic principles of sustainable development, global and environment institute working paper 00-04.
- Cites oelofse, c., school of life and environmental sciences, university of natal, durban pak, m.s.
1575 wordsRead More - Education for Sustainable Developmentopinion essaySustainability development has three components: environment, society, and economy. If you consider the three to be overlapping circles of the same size, the area of overlap in the center is human well-being. As the environment, society, and economy become more aligned, the area of overlap increases, and so does human well-being. Therefore, education for sustainable development (ESD) is the use of education as a tool to achieve sustainability. Simply put, ESD is a way to make the world a safer, healthier, and more livable place for us and future generations (McKeown, 2002, pgs 7-9).
In this essay, the author
- Explains sustainability development has three components: environment, society, and economy. education for sustainable development (esd) is the use of education as a tool to achieve sustainability.
- Explains that children in grades 3 through 5 are moving from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" and "writing to communicate". the curriculum becomes more integrated.
- Explains that children in grades 3-5 are highly social and learn more about values and respect. they work quickly and have a limited attention span. third through fifth graders are competitive.
- Explains that students in grades 3 through 5 learn better by incorporating visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles into their daily classroom work.
- Explains that third, fourth, and fifth grade students can act as ambassadors to promote the 3rs concept — reduce, reuse, recycle.
- Opines that adding an element of sustainable development to the curriculum can only enhance what is currently being taught to students. as educators, we must show students how sustainability is relevant to everyday living.
- Opines that the public must be made aware of the damage we are all causing on a daily basis to our planet. teachers, local, state, and federal government officials, will have to be trained on sustainable development and how to teach others.
- Recommends using a combination of approaches to ensure the message is received by the audience.
- Opines that people don't understand sustainable development, global growth sustainability, or education for sustainability.
- Concludes that sustainable development requires a collective thinking about solutions that preserve the biological capacity of the planet and reduce our vulnerability. educating children in grades 3 through 5 is easy compared to educating parents, grandparents, and neighbors.
- Explains mckeown's education for sustainable development toolkit, version 2, and williams' what to expect in third grade.
- Explains the sustainability lesson clearinghouse, retrieved may 11, 2012, from http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/institute/lesson-clearinghouse/17-health.
- Describes the definition of sustainability, citing macnagthen and jacobs.
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