Sustainable cities and communities

What is a Sustainable Community?

A Human basically wants clean air and water, health and well-being, shelter, job opportunities, safety and security, availability of resources and lifelong learning. A sustainable city or a community is a goal to achieve theses necessary needs of an individual. It is a place where people will get every necessary thing, everyone will be welcome here, a place where your opinion will matter and you will feel safe to be around.

A sustainable community deals with its human, environmental, and financial capital to address recent concerns while guaranteeing that satisfactory resources are accessible for people in the future.

Since 1991, ISC has worked with a huge number of networks, associations, establishments and organizations about more than 30 nations. They believe solid networks are the establishment of a peaceful and healthy planet for humanity. They have conducted that environmental change, income inequality, and social injustice form are the greatest threats to building solid, manageable communities and thus these difficulties characterize their present needs.

 

Challenges:

Numerous challenges exist to keeping up with urban areas such that keeps on making employment and success without stressing area and resources. Normal metropolitan difficulties include clog, absence of funds to offer fundamental services, a deficiency of adequate housing, declining foundation and rising air contamination inside urban areas.

Fast urbanization challenges, like the protected removal and the management of solid waste inside urban areas, can be overcome in manners that permit them to proceed to flourish and develop, while further developing resource use and reducing pollution and poverty. One such model is an increasing in civil waste collection. There should be a future where urban areas give freedom to all, with access to fundamental needs, energy, housing, transportation etc.

The targets for achieving these goals:

• Safe and Affordable Housing
• Affordable and Sustainable transport system
• Inclusive and sustainable urbanization
• Protect the world’s cultural and natural heritage
• Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters
• Reduce the environmental impacts of cities
• Provide access to safe inclusive green and public spaces
• Strong national and regional development planning
• Implement policies for inclusion, resource and disaster risk reduction
• Support least developed countries in sustainable and resilient building