Conducting Sustainable Project: Perth, Australia Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of a sustainable project in Perth, Australia, focusing on the city's environmental challenges. The report begins with an executive summary highlighting the key issues related to sustainability in Perth, particularly concerning water consumption, renewable energy usage, and waste management. It then delves into a system analysis approach to identify and understand the factors contributing to these problems, including urban development, climate change, and resource management. The report identifies major system factors and conducts a linkage analysis to show how they interact. Part 2 of the report offers recommendations, focusing on identifying leverage points and eco-tipping points within the system to address the sustainability issues. The project aims to balance economic, environmental, and social factors, proposing strategies such as sustainable construction, smarter agriculture, and improved resource management to achieve a more sustainable future for Perth. The report also discusses the outcomes, people involved, activities, barriers, and measurement of success for the proposed project.

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Conducting sustainable project
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Executive summary
The community of sustainability has been found to be using the resources of Perth, the capital of
Western Australia. This is to meet the current requirements of the area. Here, the issues with the
sustainability of Perth are chosen. In this task, the scale is chosen and the sustainability program is
demonstrated. After that, the important factors of the systems are determined and the aim of the
project is evaluated. Further, the main results of the projects are found out with the main tasks of the
current sustainability project.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:..........................................................................................................................................3
Part 1: Choosing the sustainability problem and analyze that through the simple version of system
analysis:.................................................................................................................................................3
Step 1: Choosing of the sustainability problem:.................................................................................3
Step 2: Choosing the scale:.................................................................................................................4
Step 3: Brainstorming all the factors that contributing to the issue:...................................................6
Step 4: Identifying the major system factors:......................................................................................6
Step 5: Linkage analysis:.....................................................................................................................7
Part 2: Making recommendations regarding how the sustainability issues can be addressed:..............9
Overall aim of the project:..................................................................................................................9
Outcomes of the project:.....................................................................................................................9
People to be involved in the project:.................................................................................................10
Main activities of the project:............................................................................................................10
Barriers for successful implementation of the project:.....................................................................11
Measuring the project’s success:.......................................................................................................11
Researches and evidencing the support of the project idea:..............................................................11
Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................................11
References:..........................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction:
The sustainability community utilizes the resources for meeting the present necessities. This
helps in assuring that proper resources are there for the upcoming generations. This includes all the
citizens are to be integrated. This includes the long-term planning processes for securing the scenario,
widen the economic scopes and meeting the social necessities. As many community dynamics have
been at work, there are specifically vital to creating prosperous and healthy communities. This
happens in the long term as per equity, ecology and economy. Perth is the capital of Western
Australia. This is present in the area where the Swan Rithe ver meets the southwest coast. It has a dry
Mediterranean climate. This has consisted of a rapidly drying climate. Nonetheless, household water
consumption has been continuing to be the highest in Australia. In this report, the sustainability
problem of Perth is chosen.
At first, the scale is chosen, and the sustainability program is discussed. Then, the major
system factors and the goal of the project is chosen. Then, the primary outcomes of the project are to
be determined with the primary activities of the project.
Part 1: Choosing the sustainability problem and analyze that through the simple
version of system analysis:
Step 1: Choosing the sustainability problem:
It is seen as people have been continuing to Western Australia, there is more and more
pressure to be put over the facilities and services that they expect to the city to offer. This has been a
massive challenge for Perth and also to the overall globe. Further, the arable land of farming has been
shrinking. The cities have been quickly consuming and expanding and then consuming the resources

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at an alarming rate. Since the cities have been expanding, the ecosystems are getting destroyed and
the native animals and plants are forced to face extinction and adapt (Jones, Cheryl and David 2015).
They are pushed out of the cities. Further, they have been nowhere to go as the forests have been
logged. However, the liability is to stand up and concentrate on the issues. It is needed to fix the
issues and seek smarter methods to manage the elements. Peter Newman, the professor of
sustainability of Curtin University, has revealed that the people have been attracted to the cities. Since
the cities have been turning to be popular. They are growing fast. They are required to decrease their
footprint. Hence, it is required to review the resources that are consumed. This involves the land,
water, energy and materials through developing the livability (Sheldon, Heather et al. 2015).
Step 2: Choosing the scale:
To understand this state government is chosen. It is the abode of various liveable cities in the
world. However, this is the long way for meeting the SDGs or Sustainable Development Goal of
Australia. It has been ranking 20th in the world. It is many ways behind Canada and various European
nations. However, they are ahead of the country of the United States. Launched at the United Nations
SDG talk at the week, in New York, the index has been marking every performance of the country for
17 goals (Bay, Hwa and Lehmann 2015). Here, the aim is to put the world over sustainable financial,
environmental and social paths. It has been featuring about 169 targets for meeting the upcoming 15
years in sectors such as climate actions, economic growths and health. The ranking is known as
Dashboard and SDG index. It is developed by the “UN Sustainable Development Solutions
Network”. The ranks of the countries of the performance as per the Bertelsmann Shifting, a German
think tank has been using a set of 77 indicators (Gannon et al. 2017).

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Figure 1: “Performance of Australia on every goal of Sustainable Development: Report of SDG
index and Dashboard”
(Source: Kommers et al. 2016, pp. 6-8)

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The above performance chart displays that Australia has been rating relatively excellent on the
lack of poverty. This also involves water quality and education. The inequality has also been rising
and this has not been poor like the UK or US.
Step 3: Brainstorming all the factors that contribute to the issue:
The cities have been developing very quickly for the last 100 years. The growth has never
looked about to slow down. The cities have been turning to 50% of the world and likely becoming
about 75% very quickly. The cities have been 50% of the world and can be likely to be about 75%
very soon. There are problems like climate change (Kelobonye et al. 2019). Here, the carbon is
pushed to the atmosphere. This involves water and the extracting has been more from the
environment. It is has been more possible for the past. This consists of the biodiversity has been
clearing the bushland across the cities. Here, the issues have been dealt with in the city and the
planning (Uren et al. 2019). The government has needed to undergo a more intelligent approach for
that. They have been fetching sustainable methods of living for the future. They have been dependent
on extracting the resources and creating more and more amount of wastes.
Step 4: Identifying the major system factors:
Here a rationale is provided for the coefficients.
Green projects for the development of Perth:
It is the focus of the frenetic infrastructure program. It is found on the principles of innovative
construction techniques and environmental protection. This is a significant infrastructure push. It is
accompanied hand in hand with the rise in interest to protect the scenario. The state of Western
Australia, Perth, has been boasting the GDP of about 198 billion. This is 42% greater than the
national average. This is a logistic hub having 4 fli9ghts all week for the international airports. It is a

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city of 2 million and has been posting the average growth of GDP of about 5.3% since the last 10
years (Pope et al. 2016).
Urban development:
It is seen that the developers across the world have begun to determine the future phases
regarding urban development. Some plans can be developed for reducing car dependence and design
public transport. This has been making the cities to be walkable. It is seen that for the time in history,
the car usage per capita around the world is reducing. It has been the situation in the sprawling city of
Perth.
Moreover, it is seen that for the people who are living in extreme conditions at the urban
corridor, the restricted public transport is available (Stocker et al. 2016). However, some residents
require the car to get across. They have been getting more and more renewable system very fast
(Kuzich et al. 2015). About 200 megawatts of various solar panels has been there on the rooftops of
multiple homes at Perth. Hence, thoroughly they have been fetching the summer on record they have
never been going anywhere near the peak during electricity.
Smarter agriculture:
Since the population of the world is predicted to rise with an alarming rate, the production of
food is also raising. The arable land of farming has also been shrinking. The ecosystems are getting
destroyed as the cities are expanding quickly. They are going to be a part of the drive for producing
lots of more food as the population of the world rises. This can be done despite the planet.
Step 5: Linkage analysis:
The 3 systems have been influencing and interacting with each other. Through the above
analysis, the various environmental, economic and social factors over the agricultural operations are

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understood. These are the implications for food security and agricultural business. Next, the multiple
advantages and disadvantages of the enterprise diversities under the farming system are to be
considered (Byrne, Anda and Ho 2019). This is helpful to develop and predict the sustainable
operations of the future. It is useful to analyze the potential effects of common concerns ion
sustainability of the business of the farm and food security. This also involves landscapes and rural
communities.
Environmental sustainability is determined first. It has indicated that Perth is staying under the
ways of natural resources. To remain under the actual environmental sustainability, the government
must assure that the city is consuming the natural resources properly. This includes the land, water,
energy fuels, and materials at a sustainable rate. Next, economic sustainability is also evaluated. It is
understood that the country and business has been effectively using the resources. This can also
operate sustainably to consistently generate the operational profit the city can never sustain the
activities (Zacher et al. 2017). Despite responsively taking the activities, the usage of resources in an
effective manner, the government of Australia can never sustain the tasks. Before acting responsively
and smartly using the resources, the government can never sustain the tasks in the long run.
Further, social sustainability is the capability of the society with a social system for
persistently gaining the effective social well being. At last, gaining social sustainability assures the
social well being of the country. This happens for the community or organization to be maintained
long term (Adiansyah et al. 2016).

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Part 2: Making recommendations regarding how sustainability issues can be
addressed:
The overall aim of the project:
The objectives include the continuation to deploy the programs of family planning. Further,
the project would be helpful to maintain the dynamic balance taking place between the arable lands at
Perth. This was also useful for deploying the strategy regarding agricultural development (Cozens et
al. 2019).
Moreover, a dynamic balance can be maintained for water resources. This can be reduced for
water consumption for all the units of gross developments. This is for product growth and added
agricultural values. It is also helpful for greater quantities of natural and oil gases. Next, the emissions
of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide are to be controlled for Perth with choosing the greater-
pollution plans for thermal plants. Then, compensation must be done to decrease the timber
production and raise the importance of timber (Stocker, Laura and Burke et al. 2017). Next, various
time-bound commitments are to be done through cleaning up greater rivers, cities, lakes and closing
down the pollution enterprises seriously. Next, massive ecological construction project must be
deployed for slowing down the degradation regarding ecology. Lastly, the environmental industry
and the eco-build up musty be developed for expanding the domestic demand with the rise of
employment and alleviating poverty.
Outcomes of the project:
Sustainable construction has been contributing to the gain of themes of sustainable
development. This is the triple bottom line by embracing various aims. The project is intended to be
more competitive and profitable. It must be useful to deliver the structures and buildings providing

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higher satisfactions. This must bring well being and values for the inhabitants of Perth. It is also
useful for treating and respecting the stakeholder in a fair way (Kaparaju et al. 2018). Next, better
protection and enhancing of the natural scenario is to be chosen. Lastly, it must be useful for
minimizing the energy consumption, particularly the natural resources and carbon-based energy.
People to be involved in the project:
The project stakeholders are the individuals and group of people. They have the stake in, the
expectation of and the performance of projects. This also involves the clients, project managers,
suppliers, subcontractors, designers. This also involves the funding bodies, users and the overall
community.
Moreover, these are interdependent and affecting others while undertaking the project.
However, the dependencies have been varying as per various phases of developments on the overall
lifecycle of the project (Marinova et al. 2017).
In the same way, the interest of the stakeholders has been varying accordingly.
Moreover, the responsible stakeholders have been referring to the individual or the
community that are a degree of liabilities with the development process. Here, the interested
stakeholder indicates the people who have never been directly affected by that project. However, one
must like to provide and participate in the opinion in the development process of the infrastructures.
Main activities of the project:
The primary activities involve the designing of the wastes. Then the existing buildings must
be re-used. Then, the government should aim for re-using the current buildings. Then the lean
construction must be developed (Lehmann et al. 2017). After that, lean construction must be aimed.
Then the energy construction must be minimized with usage and construction. Then, the pollution

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must be eradicated and the biodiversity must be enhanced and preserved. Lastly, water usage must be
minimized with social respect. Lastly, the targets are to be set.
Barriers to the successful implementation of the project:
The climate change at Perth has been interlinked with the local, national and global
environmental issues. This also involves the developing of issues like loss of biodiversity,
stratospheric loss of ozone, deforestation freshwater degradation and desertification.
Measuring the project’s success:
The success of the project can be derived with the determination of costs. This has been rating
the cost management as the greatest priority of that project. Hence evaluating that the project is done
is economically vital. Next, the stakeholder management issue is a vital concern here. The broader
team greater stakeholders are vital to get the tasks done. Hence, it is worth checking in with that
(Allam 2018).
Researches and evidencing the support of the project idea:
The government of Perth should think about using various recycled materials. They should be
renovating to develop sustainability wherever possible. Next, constant development and greater
quality tasks are to be aimed for lean construction. They should beware of the consumption of energy
as the process construction and creating solutions that are energy effective are to be performed.
Furthermore, the effective use of water in building and construction are to be done. Then, they
should be liable to the workforce and the local community. Lastly, the own performances are to be
benchmarked with projects and setting targets for constant developments.

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Conclusion:
The economic developments that are gained so far for Perth have been adopting different
techniques. This has been proved to be dangerous for the environment where the inhabitants have
been living in. It is witnessed that the rate of consumption and the rising population of natural
resources have been imparting greater stress over the environment of the city. There is a crying
necessity for the sustainable development that aims at the improvement that never has any negative
effect over the environment.
Further, the careful usage of the resources and utmost usage of the sources of non-
conventional energy has been helping to attain sustainable developments. Here, some of the resources
have been much more abundant than other people. Thus there is the necessity of considering the
scarcity of materials. Here, the damage for the environment from extraction of the materials and
resource if placed within the principles of the circular economy.
Nevertheless, environmental sustainability must never be confused with total sustainability.
There is also a necessity of the balance of social and economic factors.
Further, the evaluation of factors is helpful to evaluate and access a wide range of related
national and international data. This is to support the arguments under oral and written formats. It is
also helpful to work constructively under the term in gaining project outcomes.

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