Review Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: January-March | Volume: 4 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 29-33
Sustainable Urban Development: Meaning and Significance
Sarbani Bera
Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Vidyasagar University
ABSTRACT
Sustainable urban development is one of the major issues in this century. The term ' sustainable development’ came into public arena in 1980 when the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources presented the world conservation strategy. It is a key concept in the global policies of the environment and one of the most contested ideas in global environmental discourse. Sustainable urban development specifically means achieving a balance between the development of the urban areas and protection of the environmental equity in employment shelter, basic services and transportation in the urban areas. There are various type of sustainability namely environmental sustainability social sustainability etc. Sustainable urban development deals with several problems such as like inadequate housing and slums problem, Urbanisation, urban poverty, water supply and sanitation, pollution, solid waste management and health problems etc. for example Indian government has implemented several schemes to promote sustainable urban development some of them are Smart Cities Mission(2015), Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (2005), Atal Mission Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (2015), National Urban Livelihood Mission(2013) etc. sustainable Urban development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The essence of this form of development is a stable relationship between human activities and the environment.
Keywords: Sustainable Urban Development, Urbanisation, Pollution, Water Supply, solid waste management.
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