Strategies For Sustainable Development

Introduction

This document is a compilation of pertinent priorities in the ecological domain, deemed necessary in the control, mitigation or alleviation of probable environmental challenges. The environment and natural resources in addition to that are crucial in the realization of sustainable development. For the understanding of any social or economic visions, such as vision 2030, environmental constraints ought to be integrated with economic growth (Al‐Najjar, and Anfimiadou, 2012). The world is currently suppressed by myriads of challenges, such as pollution, deforestation, invasion of alien species and most remarkably climate change. The problems are real and happening right now. It is for that reality that this strategy document presents proposals that can be adhered to in the eve of an invocation duty and call to act accordingly to stop or mitigate he sporadic happenings in the contemporary world.

The appropriate implementation of environment and natural resources constraints into organizational processes; or the general public domain call for stakeholder participation both internal and external levels. Sectors such as health, agriculture, industry, and energy play a crucial role in national environment management. These sectors in conjunction with the national goals vividly as enshrined in legislative frameworks provide for a credible blueprint for the control of the environment (Cox et al., 2010).

Sharing with you this document which was prepared through a participatory approach grants me pleasure, for it resonates the essence of collective commitment towards sustainable use of the environmental resources for the common good of present and future posterities. I am optimistic the pedestal of dedication and support upon which the preparation of this document rests will be demonstrated in the implementation of herein sentiments (Brammer, Hoejmose, and Marchant, 2012).

The Audience of the Strategic Document

This document primarily addresses the general public which according to the United Nations is the primary target audience for environmental education. Environmental education is a lifelong process by which the correct attitudes, knowledge, values, and skills are acquired by an individual’s; to achieve ecological conservation. The integration of environmental education into policies and now academic schools is a vital milestone, which has contributed to the basketry of ecological justice, and sustainability (Eden, 2016). There is a dire of the need for everyone, men, women, and children; of all kinds to get relevant sensitization and awareness of the challenges currently underway and threatening to our planet.

This strategy document presentation is essential to environmental enthusiasts, activists, and lovers, in the pursuit to lobby for conservation. The document incorporates approaches to all aspects of the country’s environment, with a framework of actions that can enhance beautification of the authentic planet for both now and future perfectives. Additionally, the document provides for sober interconnectedness between life and the environment (Foxon, 2013). By the fact that the climate is highly influential to people’s quality of life, it, therefore, ought to find affection, empathy, and affinity in peoples’ mind and hearts.

Strategic Approaches for Sustainable Environmental Protection

The document portrays five main approaches deemed to raise environmental opportunities to safeguard conservation for now and future perspectives. The procedures sensitize every logistic of the strategy while giving links between each of them, in the quest to uphold a holistic approach in addressing the country’s environmental crises. The strategic approaches herein also provide relations between the provisions by the legal frameworks in factoring in ecological concerns in the decision-making process (Gunningham, and Sinclair, 2017).

The following are the strategies that can positively safeguard environmental interests; Low carbon footprints and waste management Green digital cities The green infrastructural development and natural capital accounting Sustainable production Environmental awareness and education

Low carbon footprints and waste management

Uncontrolled carbon emissions to the environment contribute primarily to pollution and climate change. Carbon IV oxide is a significant greenhouse gas facilitating “global heating.” In the context of the United Kingdom, this document maintains that the quest o venture into growth without an in-depth mastery of the expected ranges of benefits has bred forth environmental challenges. The dependency on car transport to move the vast populations and industrial growth which harnesses fossil fuels accompanies the emission of wastes that lead to pollution, increased emissions and depletion of resources (Jamasb, and Nepal, 2010). Industrial emissions greatly contribute to pollution and climate change.

Considerably, uneven distribution of the significances induced by growth has exacerbated the impacts of environmental degradation amidst the experimental sample of people studied; who have been affected through poor air quality, poverty, diseases, and climate change. However, some cities such as London are already reversing these negative trends, to yield more positive outcomes, there is a need for a more continuously dynamic approach to economic development which centers the adoption of green and sustainable models which value the authenticity and betterment of the environment (Jordan, 2012).

Green digital cities

A green city is that which focuses on the application of modern green technology and increased connectivity to better harness infrastructural provisions and services. Efficient transport systems characterize a smart town, alleviated traffic congestions and fast movement of people and goods from place to place. Smart technologies can be applied to instill such efforts in our urbanized centers (Leach, Stirling, and Scoones, 2010).

The techniques can make urban ecosystems such as water, energy, and wastes more efficient and therefore can invoke inhabitants to make sound decisions that are environmentally-friendly. Smart energy meters may be harnessed to reduce urban energy consumptions. Additionally, renewable energy sources can be advocated to supplement the use of fossil fuels. Integrating tree plantation amidst the growing urbanization can largely provide carbon sinks to sequester the carbon footprints emitted.

Moreover, in urban contexts; smart heat networks can optimize energy efficiency consumptions patterns alongside smart lampposts which can charge electric vehicles and provide for WI-FI supply and local information. The integration of digital technologies can save the planet from the tragedy of over-consumerism of non-renewable energy sources, induce low carbon emissions and bring forth infrastructural efficiency by erecting green buildings (Rinrattanakorn, 2012).

The green infrastructural development and natural capital accounting

The United Kingdom is well-endowed with natural resources and green infrastructures such as green spaces, parks, wetlands, trees; which all can contribute in suppressing the dire effects of climate change and help to sequester carbon. Additionally, the infrastructure can better the quality of air and water, which thus will lead to better health conditions. The public are encouraged to embrace green lifestyles that lessen the emission of wastes or overconsumption of natural resources from the environment. In effect to this, the members of the public are encouraged to reduce the dependency of the car, encourage cycling and walking; and mass movement. By so doing, the public is likely to contribute to the docket of biodiversity and environmental resilience, by granting the natural environment to renew itself through natural processes (Marcotullio, and McGranahan, 2012).

Notably, most organisations in the United Kingdom; and worldwide do assess the value of their possessives and assets under financial accounting, within which environmental prospects are hardly addressed. In many cases, green infrastructures are not taken care of in budgetary allocations for many private enterprises which deteriorate the real significances such green technologies offer for humanity. Natural capital accounting tackles this predicament by assembling the positive implications of green infrastructure while similarly presenting them as any other organizational assets such as buildings and machines (Schaltegger, Burritt, and Petersen, 2017).

Sustainable production

Evidence has conveyed that during the process of production of goods; 80% damage is inflicted to the environment (Shutt, 2017). The inflictions mainly happen through the wastes that are generated to the natural environment. This document in effect to the harm caused to the environment invokes to need to uphold people accountable for whatever damage they cause to our environment. The polluter pays principle is vital in extending the producer responsibility, in paying back dues to rectify the harms caused on the environment. In the art of production, holding people and organizations responsible for environmental crimes perpetuated will inspire the urge to maximize the value of resource consumption and minimize wastes emission and thus the waste impact on the environment.

The polluter pays principle critical especially in the modern arena where production is the primary income generation (Therivel et al., 2013). The principle in its structural composition and ability to penalize the producers prevents wastes generation in the first place or provide for a framework which manages the generations. The law equally is an incentive for the acquisition of proper skills, and knowledge before one venture into production to ensure people do the right thing for the good part of humanity and the environment.

Environmental awareness and education

Ecological knowledge is a tool for a change in people’s attitudes, and perceptions while re-orienting them in line with ecological demands. The concept of sustainable development is not common knowledge to everyone, which thus invokes a need to sensitize everyone on the need for a sustainable environment (Wallace, 2017). Additionally, the education which provides awareness to the people about what is happening on the planet right now is essential to make them own such challenges as a basis of working out the solutions. By such, the submission of relevant skills for tackling the current problems is equally mandatory for an informed course of action.

Legal sensitizations can also play important roles in addressing compliance issues concerning the environment. The enforcement agencies can inspire adoption of legal frameworks by conducting periodic checkups on developmental projects, to see they adhere with the set standards. In the UK, this document is aware of the role of the enforcement agencies in discouraging antisocial burning of wastes and the illegal utilization of wood-burning stoves. An informed follow-up logistics will motivate the adoption of green lifestyles and developments throughout the country; which will thus contribute to sustainable development (Winter, 2013).

Goals and Measurements (public relations)

In the pursuit to achieve set goals and objectives, there is a need to work while tracking down the progress made, while monitoring how different factors respond to the implementation process. This document submits a suite of indicators deemed instrumental in assessing the growth in the enactment of an environmental plan. The strategic indicators encompass the following (Zaman, and Lehmann, 2011);

This strategic indicator informs us how we ought to manage our resources while using them to satisfy our needs. We need to take caution while utilizing finite resources and harness them efficiently for sustainability rationales. The carbon footprint of consumer goods This strategic indicator spells how much of the wastes generated can be associated with carbon. Considerably, we ought to ensure that we stay in a track to offset carbon emissions.

When wastes generated from processing the earth’s raw materials into finished goods are recycled, less environmental contaminants are subjected to the environment. Re-using the resources prevents the harmful materials from getting into contact with the situation.

Waste generation can be mitigated through re-using of materials, alongside recycling. Additionally, re-using products conserves the energy and materials engrained on them during the process of production

This indicator informs us what we are doing for the interest in reducing the number of illegal waste sites in the area. Illegal waste sites are the basis for waste crimes, which can result in environmental destruction.

The indicator manifests the efforts in place to suppress unnecessary littering. Littering causes local environmental choking which imposes unnecessary public funds to alleviate.

This strategic indicator gears to sensitize us on the effort e have laid in place to mitigate fly-tipping. Fly-tipping significantly causes environmental degradation, while also inducing much more costs to local authorities and landowners.

The environment will significantly benefit upon the accomplishment of reductions in carbon emissions landfills; and overconsumption patterns of natural resources. As stipulated by the International Panel for Climate Change (2018), reducing carbon emissions is intended to mitigate adverse risks and effects brought by warm climatic conditions. Besides, the human domain will benefit as well, while experiencing the lucrative provisions by the healthy, and well safeguarded natural and artificial environment that is shielded away from the wants of climate change and pollution (Hackett, and Dissanayake, 2014).

Conclusion

The state of the current environmental attracts the attention of everyone who indeed cares about life, intergenerational and extra-generational equities. To those who share the present dispensation of life, we owe the future posterities a planet that can enable them to satisfy their needs and for subsequent generations. This, therefore, rekindles the need for activists, environmentalists and planetary lovers of all kind to instigate the ethical treatment of our planet. This document as presented can be a blueprint to lobby against injustices perpetrated on the part of the environment, and this is relevant in campaigning for environmental rights.

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