Devoir de Philosophie

Future Cities And Environmental sustainability

Publié le 16/12/2020

Extrait du document

Maxime Jin   Reflection Paper : Future cities and environmental sustainability   This reflection paper will mainly focus on future cities and its environmental sustainability aspect. Environmental sustainability can be defined as a responsible interaction with the environment to avoid depletion or degradation of natural resources and allow for long-term environmental quality. Environmental sustainability helps to ensure that the needs of today's population are met without endangering the ability of future generations to meet their needs.  This aspect is mainly a huge challenge for upcoming creation of cities of the future and for its sustainability for future generations.  This stake is now taken seriously by our today’s society since we realized that environmental sustainabili...

« Climate change shows today how important it is for our cities to preserve and respect environment and cities can also get a bad name for being dirty and disrespectful towards the environment as said in the video.

With the exponential growth of urban migration and global population, cities now have to deal with each people consumption and carbon print since cities are the main source of pollution and carbon emission.

As a consequence, governments are now innovating and financing researches for clean energy such as renewable energy.

New cities must also be a driver of the transition to low carbon emission.

As this climate change challenge is mentioned by Katherine Cooke in March 2017. However, the technology of cities tends to be prioritized by governments, at the expense of the environment.  While advanced technologies are obviously important, social relationships make a big difference in how urban communities thrive in daily life and cope in times of environmental crisis.

It can influence people's everyday behaviour and its perception towards the environmental sustainability.

It is proven that during crisis situations, relationships within a community can make a difference in order to cope with those situations.  Thus, the creation of future cities and its urban development must be designed with positive social goals within its community mainly for environmental purposes.

However this also raises many questions such as : what behaviours do we want to see? In the end, urban development of cities must manage to improve people's health and prevent itself from climate change, and what can play a major role for it is : communities collective power.

As this aspect is mainly highlighted by Eve Reed in July 2017.   Finally, the topic of environmental sustainability helps me think about cities of the future in its hard and complex challenge that it brings.

And also, how important this aspect is for our today's cities and upcoming ones, since it can't be ignored anymore.   Bibliography :  . »

↓↓↓ APERÇU DU DOCUMENT ↓↓↓

Liens utiles