Sustainability in Urban Areas

why are urban areas so unsustainable? lots of business' with lights, air-con and ICT people commute to the urban area = co2 often richer so can waste money on electricity, food miles etc urban dwellers are busy and don't have time to be un-sustainable

Sustainability in Urban Areas

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Why is waste such an issue in terms of sustainability?high costs of landfill taxwind blown litterground water pollutiondepletion of natural resourceswaste of energy used for moving productsspace requirements for landfill

Transport in urban areas

Why has urban traffic increased so much? More cars per family high income means more car ownership spread of houses to suburbs and towns increases commutes large urban working population rising population people are willing to make longer journeys for leisure purposes

What impacts has an increase in urban traffic had? congestion costs the UK £15 billion a year - lost work hours, late delivery's etc cost of road repairs, building and maintenance  Environmental- pollution, loss of habitat, more petrol burned, noise pollution, loss of land to carparks roads etc Social- stress/anger, healthy problems, accidents, wasted time

What can be done to make urban transport more sustainable? restricted cars - mexico city off road for one day congestion charge to discourage petrol tax increase parking tax hybrid engines improve public transport catalytic converters to improve car engines biofuels- brazil

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