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Definitions, Purposes & History of Green Belt
Green belt or greenbelt is defined as an area that is reserved for undeveloped or agricultural land to protect the urban areas of large cities. It is an essential element of national planning policy to control the development of urban areas. Green belt is usually laid out in Local Plan by local planning authorities (Green Belt UK Politics, 2009).
Green belt have a series of significant purposes or functions for improving the life quality of humans. For natural environmental aspect, it could protect natural environment, and, to some extent, improve air quality of urban areas. In addition, protecting habitats for wild animals is another function. Green belt provides open space for urban population to access to fresh air. For planning aspect, it is helpful to prevent urban sprawl. Furthermore, the unique character of urban areas, such as the historic towns, could be kept by setting up a green belt. And rural areas are separated from urban areas by green belt. It is aimed at preventing neighbouring towns merging into one another as well (Naturenet, 2007).
The concept of green belt could be dated back to the ancient time. In UK, the first green belt was built by Elizabeth I of England to prevent the spread of plague around the City of London. However, the first true meaning of green belt was not proposed until 1930s. It is known as Metropolitan Green Belt, which is located around London. Since then, it seemed that green belts started to be essential in urban planning. Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and some other groups push the implementation of green belt policy in UK.

Benefits of Green Belt
Green belt has been proved that people are benefited from the constructio...
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In the 1920’s the luscious green grass was thriving with great abundant amounts of rain. This created a lot of jobs and food for people around the country. Then the Dust Bowl hit. “Huge clouds of dust blocking out the sun and engulfing everything in their path forced people and animals to run for shelter”(“The Dust Bowl”). When the clouds would cover the sun the crops would shrivel up and die which would
The city borders the West Midlands and Warwickshire Green Belts, which prevent Coventry from merging with adjacent towns (Coventry, 2014). The Green Belt policy was introduced in the UK with the aim of restricting uncontrollable urban growth, which could have led to far-reaching devastating consequences. Once destroyed, it would be rather difficult, if not impossible, to revive the countryside. Nowadays, the large green open areas serve mostly as outdoor recreational centres, but also as popular tourist attractions due to their breathtaking landscapes. Finally, benefits of the policy are twofold in that it protects both urban and rural population (Green Belt (United Kingdom), 2014).
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The green revolution began in the 1970’s in Malaysia. It was brought about by an advance in technology, a new form of high yielding seeds. These new seeds led to the ability to double crop, or have more than one crop yield per season. Also, many of the large farmers opted to bring in combine harvesters to increase the speed at which they could harvest, making it easier for them to double crop. These new technologies may seem economically beneficial to all if viewed by the untrained observer. However, those who benefited were few. These new developments only benefited the wealthiest in society, consequently leaving the poor even poorer for many reasons.
Green Revolution refers to an agricultural renovation that pertains to research and practices which used modified crops, proper irrigation and modern agricultural technology. Through the Green Revolution, agricultural production increased massively all over the world. Despite the success of the Green Revolution, there are still qualms on whether it is actually good or not.
Green architecture is an approach to building which has become more popular in the last 25 to 30 years. Also known as sustainable design, green architecture is a method of design that minimizes the impact of building on the environment. Once thought of as unconventional and nonstandard, both regulatory agencies and the public alike are quickly accepting green architecture as a socially responsible and logical means of construction.
(The Sustainability of Irish Agriculture, n.d.) Sustainability is very important on my home farm. Practices have been put in place that won’t cause harm to the environment. My home farm is a small, family enterprise and I feel that new approaches are needed in order to maintain the farms sustainability status. Non-renewable inputs that are harmful to the environment or to the health of farmers should be minimised. As well as this, farmers have knowledge and skills that could be put into use, therefore substituting human capital for costly external outputs. Sustainable agriculture outcomes can be positive for food productivity, reduced pesticide use and carbon balances. (Agricultural Sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence, 2007) In this essay, I will discuss the principles and practices of sustainable agriculture, identifying how they may relate to my home farm. I will then discuss whether or not present activities can change to more sustainable methods in the
The Green Building is a way to increase the positive effects and fade the negative effects through the life cycle of the building.
Cities all over the world are developing. As war ended in 1942, a significant number of people move to the city because they want to improve life. This urbanization process is causing a number of problems and should be met by sustainable development policies. In the beginning, it is important to know the definition of sustainable development. There are some definitions for sustainable development, but simply they say that sustainable development is a development which using resources now and preserving them for future generations (Adams, 1999, p.137). This concept has been agreed internationally at a Rio Conference in 1992 to be implemented by all government policies which mostly known as “Agenda 21” principles (Adams, 1999, p.141). This paper will show that traffic jams and housing problems caused by urbanization can be met by sustainable development policies. The structure of this paper will first explain the situation that leads to traffic jams and housing problems. Next, it will elaborate the sustainable development solutions, implications for the solutions, and evaluations how effective the sustainable development solutions solved the problems.
The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was designed in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were aimed to be planned, self- contained communities surrounded by “greenbelts”, containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture. The garden city defined as a town free of slums and enjoying the benefits of both town (such as opportunity, amusement and high wages) and country (such as beauty, fresh air and low rents). Greenbelts is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas. A green belt is an invisible line designating a border around a certain area, preventing development of the
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In order to sustain the urban area, regional planner can create an environmentally friendly and sustainable city so that the next generation can meet their own needs. Eco-friendly cities have become a trend in most of the country and they do attract people because of their green environment, a balanced of mixed use of land and low energy consumption and low carbon of energy and transport. The concept is new township. Planner creates a new township to balance the region. This new idea of the city can protect the environment. In Malaysia, Eco World and Forest City in Johor Bharu are the residential area and city with the eco idea are built and it can attract people to come and buy the houses because of the appearance of the house and the landscape design.