220UCE8XOO COMMUNITY PLANNING & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 2

. 220UCE8XOO COMMUNITY PLANNING & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 2.

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What is Sustainable Development?. The Brundtland Report, published in 1987, was the first to provide a "official" concept of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development states that human civilizations must survive and meet their needs without jeopardizing future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Sustainable development, in particular, is a method of organizing society in such a way that it can continue to exist in the long run. This entails taking into account both current and future imperatives, such as environmental and natural resource protection, as well as social and economic equality..

What is sustainable Development?. This concept then gave birth to what is called ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ The Sustainable Development Goals, often known as the Global Goals, are a set of 17 interconnected global goals aimed at providing a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all. The United Nations General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, with the goal of achieving them by 2030..

CONTINUES…. All of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have some connection to the environment. The SDGs with a direct connection to the environment include: Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), Goal 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), Goal 13 (Climate Action), Goal 14 (Life Below Water), and Goal 15, (Life on Land)..

IMPORTANCE OF SD & SDGs. Because of our rapidly growing population, more resources will be required in the future to accommodate it, and unfortunately, the resources we currently use are not all renewable. Taking this into account, the technology industry will need to adapt to future conditions, as rare metals and minerals used in the industry, such as Palladium – a metal widely used in the production of consumer electronics – are becoming increasingly scarce. Another factor to consider is that China currently produces 97 percent of the world's rare earth materials, and if it were to impose a blockade on its exports, the production of technological goods would become extremely difficult..

IMPORTANCE OF SD & SDGs. Given that our industries are investing in and relying on technology, if rare earth metals were to gradually disappear, prices would skyrocket, as would inflation rates, making it impossible to function for an extended period of time. As a result, new alternatives and innovations in the tech industry are critical to ensuring steady development in this field without relying on an excessive amount of exhaustible materials. SDG 9 address this issue by recommending that, by 2030, infrastructure and industries be upgraded and retrofitted to make them more sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries acting in accordance with their respective SDGs. Another crucial issue are the potential food shortages in the future in the face of our growing population which is estimated to hit a little under 10 billion by 2050..

Challenges and Threats. Having highlighted the importance of sustainable development, it is also important to understand that it does need a lot of concentrated effort and, like many things in life, it does have many challenges ahead of itself. Lack of financial resources to carry out and plan sustainable development Sustainable development is often not possible in war-torn countries as there are other priorities on hand. Natural occurrences, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, can pose a threat to sustainability as they can shift the flow of water and destroy certain elements of infrastructure. The governmental conflict between immediate profit and investment towards sustainable technologies. lack of efforts at a municipal level Corruption..