Environmental Science: Sustainability Report and Analysis

This report provides an introduction to sustainability, defining it as the ability to maintain things at a level that can be utilized by future generations. It emphasizes the importance of sustainability for economic, social, and environmental development, highlighting its role in maintaining a stable relationship between human activities and the natural world, protecting natural resources, and improving the quality of life. The report discusses the benefits of sustainability, including meeting current resource needs and supporting future lifestyles. It also considers factors crucial for sustainability and the necessity of sustainable development, particularly in the context of economic growth and social progress. The report then examines the role of sustainability across different sectors and analyzes the effects of climate change on New Zealand, including temperature increases, flooding, and impacts on resources and the natural ecosystem, such as ozone layer depletion and sea-level rise. The report references several sources to support its findings.

SUSTAINABILITY

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability is an ability to maintain
things at a level which can be utilised by
upcoming people. It helps in preventing
the depletion of natural resources for the
future to balance ecological situations.It
is a broad discipline that provides the
insights into various aspects of human
world such as business, technology,
environment, social science, etc.
Sustainability is essential for three major
reasons which include economic
development, social development and
environmental protection.

IMPORTANCE
 Maintains stable relationship between the activities of human
beings and natural world.
 Helps in protecting the violation of natural resources (Holden,
Linnerud and Banister, 2017).
 Develops harmony between the economic, environment and socio-
political Sustainability.
 Helps in improving the quality of life style of human being who
are living within the carrying ability of ecosystem.
 Supports in making changes in the pattern of consumptions
towards more quality products.
 Develops a high standard of living for people without making any
harm to environmental integrity.

BENEFITS
• Main benefit is that it helps in meeting the current requirement of
resources that must be extracted from the country's ecosystem.
• It also benefits and permits the generation of future of human beings
to access the appropriate life style (Sustainab Holden, Linnerud and
Banister, 2017).
• Provides supports in reducing the cost and reduce the wastage of
scarce resources.

FACTORS CONSIDERED IN
SUSTAINABILITY

NECESSITY OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
• With the economic growth, it helps in sustaining the social progress
by removing the poverty and increasing the life style of people
(Rogers, Jalal and Boyd, 2012).
• In New Zealand, there is a great impact of sustainable development
as it has provided a maximum growth to the industries and also
increase the job opportunities for people.
• It has developed an economic prosperity that is required to expand
the country's business operations.
• Through removal of poverty, it has provided a great supports to
people for growth and achievement of skills and education at
workplace. Thus, there is great is significant needs of sustainable
development towards the society.

ROLE OF SUSTAINABILITY IN
DIFFRENT SECTORS
 According to the report of UNESCO in Earth summit held in Rio
de Janerio in 1992, it has been understood that the main goal this
development is to achieve the environmental, economic and social
development in order to meet the present requirement without
making any compromise with the capability of generating
resources in future to accomplish the needs.

CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECT
ON New Zealand
 It is expected that the temperature of News Zealand will raise to 1ºC
by 2040.
 In addition to this, the estimation says that till 2090 it will be
increased by 2ºC.
 The major issues arising due to the change in the climatic conditions
involves the high temperature, flooding, water resources, sea-level
rise, decreased seasonal snow cover, increase in strong winds, health,
biodiversity, build environment, transport, Agriculture, Business.
 Climate change in the country is causing numerous hazards. It has
been analysed that the main reason behind these variation are human
activities that includes the emissions of greenhouse gases and
aerosols.

IMPACT ON RESOURCES AND
NATURAL ECOSYSTEM
• The estimated excessive rainfall will deteriorate the soil quality,
consequently it will impact the productivity of the crops.
• New Zealand is the country which is highly affected due ozone layer
depletion as they lie near to the tropic of Capricorn. The decreased
seasonal snow cover has affected the animals, vegetation, etc. of the
place.
• Further, being near to the ocean, the effect of increased sea-level is
severe in the nation.

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