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ENG93000 Assignment on Sustainable Development Case Study

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Sustainable Development Case Study (ENG93000)

   

Added on  2020-05-28

ENG93000 Assignment on Sustainable Development Case Study

   

Sustainable Development Case Study (ENG93000)

   Added on 2020-05-28

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Introduction The world is continually changing due to the increase in urbanization and population increase. Itis, therefore, the responsibility of the engineering sector to come up with various measures to ensure that the environment is not overexploited, while at the same time ensuring that the methodology put in place ensures that individuals satisfy their needs and wants. Engineers continually shape the infrastructure as well as the natural environment and therefore cover a big percentage of the artificial as well as the natural world.Sustainable development has been defined as the ability of the current population to meet the development goals while at the same time ensuring that the natural ecosystems and the environment have the ability to sustain itself for the future (Eskerod & Huemann, 2013). All this is meant to ensure that the natural environment is not exploited to such an extent that it won’t be able to sustain itself which will mean it won’t have the ability to cater for the needs of the future generations. The concepts that are behind this mainly pertain economic and social development but certainly focus on protecting the environment (Dobson, 2007). Some people, however, argue that some forms of natural environment may not be fully catered to the goals of sustainable development with the non-renewable resources presenting a major bottleneck in this argument.The sustainable development goals were as a result of the Butland report in 1987 but the United Nations has gone to some extent to review and improvise the original sustainable development goals (Griggs, et al., 2013). However, the goals are centered on three fronts: economy, the society, and the environment. The three fronts form the major principles of sustainable development but have been broken down into 17 goals.
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Sustainable development and Mumbai case studyTo begin with, the environmental principle sets out the main platform for the use of natural resources.The principles are focused on the human ecology with the most defining factor the relationship between the built environment and the natural resources (Kibert, 2016). Human health depends on the natural resources available because of the continuous need for fresh air, clean water, and food. This natural environment has to continually produce the aforementioned and therefore human beings have to devise strategies that focus on the ability of the natural environment to sustain itself without necessarily producing less than what is required. Some common examples include using and recycling water, using wood in such a way that does not reduce the amount of forest available or using energy that is renewable such as solar and biomassenergy (Roberts & Parris, 2005). However, this is not the case in Mumbai city and according to the world health organization, it is the fifth most polluted city in the world[ CITATION Bor16 \l 1033 ]. The pollution is mainly attributed to the coarse particles released in the air. The data indicates that the air pollution in Mumbai city is five times the allowable limit for the world health organization.In line with the environments principle of sustainable development, Mumbai should adhere to thepollution principles whereby the air should not be contaminated in such a sense that it will lead to loss of animal life.
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