CUC100 Assessment 2: Sustainable Development Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography provides summaries and analyses of three core readings related to sustainable development. The first reading emphasizes the importance of understanding sustainability and its three pillars, particularly in the context of urban environments. It discusses how cities can promote sustainable practices and how personal life choices can align with sustainability goals. The second reading examines the impact of urban life on the environment, focusing on infrastructure, living quality, transportation, and resource consumption. It highlights the need for integrated urban planning and strategies to achieve sustainable development. The third reading underscores the role of environmental education and community knowledge in fostering sustainable development, emphasizing the importance of international collaborations and developing a balanced approach to resource utilization and conservation. It further elaborates on the competencies and literacy rates within a community for the successful implementation of sustainable practices. The document also includes an annotated bibliography entry focusing on the impact of transport policies and automobile usage on health and the environment, particularly in European countries.

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Core Reading 1
Herremans, I. M., & Reid, R. E. (2002). Developing awareness of the sustainability
concept. The Journal of Environmental Education, 34(1), 16-20.
The authors have provided a very comprehensive understanding of what sustainability stands
for in its true essence and provides a number of instances three pillars forming the base of
sustainability. The article would be vastly informative in the domain of sustainable
management and development since it introduces the readers with various concepts like smart
cities. The article provides in-depth information on how callous usage of resources has
yielded in large-scale environmental pollution thereby promoting large scale emission of
greenhouse gasses. In a rather organized and coherent manner the article enumerates how
cities can be made responsible in promoting massive environmental damage. Therefore it
becomes apparent on the very first reading how sustainable development could be achieved if
the cities are made to act in a more sanguine manner.
From the article it can be grasped that personal life choices in urban setting should be
implemented in such a manner so that it is able to meet the needs of the present generation
without sacrificing the ability of future generation in fulfilling their own needs. In this article
one can know about the key areas on which a city can focus in order to steer personal life
choices of every individual in order to align it with sustainability, an interconnected in order
to facilitate a more optimum usage of resources that would help in the reduction of adverse
impact on gas and health of people who are breathing in the air. In a scholarly manner the
article elaborates how sustainable development and judicious usage of automobiles would not
result in a slow and regressive city but rather it would be creative in its minimization of
resource utilization therefore promoting greater mobility, conserve energy, improve the
quality of air as well as identify the key problems in order to fix them. These are the key
findings of the reading that could be applied to the current scenario of environmental crisis.

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Core Reading 2
Brueckner, Martin. Durey, Angela. Mayes, Robyn. and Pforr, Christof. (2013). The mining
boom and Western Australia's changing landscape, Rural Society., Vol. 22 Issue 2, p111-
124. 14p
The article provides a very realistic picture of the contemporary urban life that has acted both
as a boon and chaos to the environment. It takes into its kaleidoscopic view different aspect
of personal life choices interconnected with urbanization and environment depletion like
infrastructure, poor living quality, transportation, water projects and electricity consumption.
The readers is broadened in order to provide an in-depth understanding how an integrated
urban life can lead to greater sustainability and reduce environmental pollution as well as
severe health impacts. Moreover the article summarizes the list of factors that actually
influence one’s personal choices within the framework of a city, for instance development in
socially responsible attitudes amongst people, government concern towards health issues and
promote campaign in order to deal with some of the immediate environmental concerns. One
can discern that the prime focus of the government would be to propose strategies so as to
make each city careful, self-resilient and responsible in achieving sustainable development.
For the purpose of studying the deep-rooted effect of personal life choices and lifestyle
pattern in urban cities as well as their impact on health and environment, the article is helpful
because of the strategies that it provides. It states in an explicit manner the significance of a
proper urban planning which would include the four objectives of regenerate, reshape,
rephrase and renew resources that can help in guaranteeing a future for the betterment of
health and environment. This is crucial because an understanding of urbanization and its
subsequent impact on sustainable development will be left somehow incomplete. It provides

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a scope where sustainable development can be encouraged for the creation of a vibrant cities
with more judicious life choices.
Core Reading 3
Robertson, Margaret. (2014). What is sustainability? The Charles Darwin University, 3-9.
The article is one of the very few in emphasizing on the core structure that could lead to the
formation for a sustainable development in community, it focuses on providing
environmental education as the foundation. It stats how knowledge within the community is
the main factor that would influence in achieving the main objective in the end. If anyone is
striving to bring forth a change within a community that is reluctant to pay proper attention to
its energy consumption, it is interested to note how quality education can plant the seeds of
life-long learning. The author is straightforward in stating the necessity of international tie
ups that would introduce to the community, the multi-faceted benefits of sustainable
development. The same would be equally beneficial in making the community aware of how
they could develop a new approach towards sustainable development and lifestyle choices to
ensure a fine balance between utilization and conservation. The article also writes about the
major competencies that are the effect of an organized learning.
While exploring about sustainable development and role of personal life choices, the literacy
rate of the community should always be taken into consideration. The article is perhaps a
finest example that stresses on the core value of education and formation of consciousness
within a community that would change its lifestyle to fit into the framework of sustainable
development. It also elaborates on the subject of interpersonal competence for the successful
functioning of such a community.