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The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance:
1. To keep in existence; maintain. 2. To supply with necessities or nourishment; provide for.

Sustainability is $aintaining all the i$%ortant #actors o# a liveable city. ,lso having the sa$e a$ount or a good a$ount o# resources and o%%ortunities. Sustainability is %reserving and not e-%loiting or $isusing the environ$ent.

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"ncrease #unding #or %ublic and active trans%ort and clean distributed energy. /nsure ra%id %rogress towards carbon neutral and water sensitive cities and %recincts. 0ind ways to create a ste% change increase in energy and water e##iciency. Showcase 1ero carbon develo%$ents. 2andate $ore a$bitious #uel consu$%tion targets #or cars. "nvest in behaviour change and education and training . and /ngage in $ore e##ective govern$ent, industry and co$$unity collaboration. Urbanisation is the %rocess in which the nu$ber o# %eo%le living

, sustainable city would have all the i$%ortant resources that kee% a city in e-istence. "t includes $aintaining businesses education and health care. 3ourist attraction is i$%ortant so $ore %ro#it is $ade and the city can $aintain the businesses. !ublic trans%ort is i$%ortant being environ$ental #riendly is i$%ortant. ,nd %ri$ary health care $ust be a %riority.

Urbanisation is when a city grows and increases in nu$bers o# %eo%le.

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/verything that we need #or our survival and well*being de%ends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environ$ent. Sustainability creates and $aintains the conditions under which hu$ans and nature can e-ist in %roductive har$ony, that %er$it #ul#illing the social, econo$ic and other re?uire$ents o# %resent and #uture generations.

3here#or sustainability is looking a#ter the environ$ent in which we li#e so we can ensure our #uture generation are able to have a good ?uality o# li#e.

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3own %lanning is vital #or sustainability. Having good roads, services, schools, centrali1ed sho%%ing centres are very i$%ortant. !eo%leAs ?uality o# li#e is a##ected by the ease in which services are %rovided. <eing able to work sho% and eat easily $akes #or a good ?uality o# li#e. 0ro$ an individual %ers%ective, one %erson can $ost certainly $ake a di##erence to sustainability. <eing water wise recycling looking a#ter the environ$ent and being involved in co$$unity based activityAs and decision can all have a huge e##ect i# every individual %artici%ates. 3he downside o# urbani1ation would be the negative environ$ental e##ects, including %ollution and the dis%lace$ent o# local wildli#e. "# all o# the rain#orests are cut down

3own %lanning is i$%ortant because without it we could not $aintain a %ro%er hygienic li#e. :lean water would be di##icult to get and dis%osing o# our waste %roducts including garbage would be highly inconvenient. Bes, an individual can $ake a di##erence to sustainability. Cust by being energy and water e##icient that can $ake a di##erence in their ho$e living and hel% the city or town they are living in.

Urbanisation and be a %ositive thing but when not %lanned care#ully it can a##ect the environ$ent. "ncluding ani$als being re$oved #ro$ ho$es and %ollution. 3rees would be

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and %aved over, the ability o# the earth to regulate its own cli$ate will be severely ha$%ered, and Global War$ing could beco$e out o# control. E2an is a social ani$al. 3his $eans that $an is not a loner but wants lives were there are %eo%le around hi$. He want to e-change his ideas and e-%eriences with others, to give and receive hel% when it is needed to share in %lans to i$%rove the #utureF

cut down and the ability to convert carbon dio-ide to o-ygen would be a##ected. ,lso global war$ing could get worse. 3his %aragra%h tries to e-%lain why we live in villages, towns and cities. "t tries to tell the reader that $any Shands $ake light work, that having a lot o# %eo%le around $akes li#e easier.