Sustainability: Lifestyle choices in urban or community settings

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Sustainability
Lifestyle choices in urban or
community settings
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2/7/2019

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Contents
Sustainability Essay: Lifestyle choices in urban settings...........................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Sustainability in Urban Settings.................................................................................................2
Sustainability concerns from an environmental, social and economic view point................3
Sustainability concern from an environmental viewpoint.................................................3
Sustainability concern from a social viewpoint.................................................................4
Sustainability concern from an economic viewpoint.........................................................4
Responses to discussed concerns to achieve sustainability....................................................5
Response to environmental issues to ensure sustainability................................................5
Response to social issues to ensure sustainability..............................................................5
Response to economic issues to ensure sustainability.......................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6

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Sustainability Essay: Lifestyle choices in urban settings
Introduction
The essay is emphasized on the paradigm of sustainable development (SD) in urban
settings while emphasizing on lifestyle choices of urban public. Sustainability is a paradigm
for thinking about the future in which environmental, societal and economic considerations
are balanced in the pursuit of an improved quality of life (Banister, 2008). In this context,
chosen scenario for discussing sustainability concerns as well as finding their solutions is
lifestyle choices in urban settings. Hence, this discussion will contain key sustainability
concerns from an environmental, social and economic point of view. Subsequently, we will
also discuss responses to the discussed concerns which could assist to ensure future
sustainability for all.
SD can be well-defined as the progress which can fulfil the requirements of the
current generation without negotiating the capability of upcoming generations for meeting
their requirements (Barrow, 2008). The paper will reflect on suggested lifestyle choices in
urban settings for sustainable development which enables revolutionary change by adopting
new nature friendly behaviours as well as practices. In this way, this essay provides
perceptive links amid all sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the urban settings (Bass
& Dalal-Clayton, 2012).
Sustainability in Urban Settings
Urban life setting typically includes dealing with the consequences of huge number of
people living their life close together. Moreover, a lifestyle of people living in an urban place
is usually categorized as more hectic as well as polluted than others. Besides, urban
communities people lives life at a quicker pace than the residents living in a comparatively
less populated area or rural setting. Most importantly, people living in urban setting change
their atmosphere from their consumption styles of food, water, energy and land (Birol, 2018).
Thus, the polluted urban atmosphere influences the health and quality of life style of the
major metropolitan population. In this context, sustainability concerns arise into urban setting
as persons who live in urban settings carry completely different consumption patterns than
rural setting residents. Therefore, major problems related to urbanization include bulk