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Newcastle's Sustainability Report

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Introduction This report is a study of Newcastle’s sustainability, seeking to find a balance between the need for environmental integrity, social and economic growth. The sustainability is to achieve a perfect balance so that the costs and benefits are fairly shared and the environmental, social and economic systems remain intact over time. I would also be talking about how sustainability would attract tourist and maintain the environment in Newcastle. this report would be focused more on the environmental and social issues I would be defining sustainability, analyzing my chosen sustainability issue from Newcastle, using my observations taken on the field trip. There would also be the debate on how sustainability could be an issue and also …show more content…

In 2010 it became named the UK maximum sustainable city for the second time. Newcastle Council reputedly dedicates their time to enhancing the environment in its improvement to becoming a sustainable city . (M Wainwright 2017 Guardian ) The rules and activities undertaken and promoted by the Council have many influences on the environment . The Council has a leading role in creating a high quality local environment, now and for future generations and in reducing the adverse impact of the city on global communities. sustainability There are so many definitions of sustainability according to Oxford dictionary sustainability can be defined as the ability to be maintained at certain rate or level. according to J Morelli (2011) journal sustainability is the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed. the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance: The committee is developing standards for products that use energy. (G Atkinson) considers sustainability concept is supposed to represent the idea of ensuring that future generations inherit an Earth with the intention to help their livelihoods in a way that they're no worse off than generations …show more content…

sustainability considers how individuals, communities, and societies live with each other, and societal provisions and expectations. Social sustainability could be defined as the encouraging and enabling of social relationships and interact in living spaces it could also be defined as improving or coexistence between groups of people with the creation of necessary devices to allow society both participate in its management and decide their use, this promotes a city that is democratically managed, matured, equitable, diverse with quality of life and above all socially organized. (S Miron what is social sustainability (2016). Environmental sustainability According to (J Monreli 2011) puts forth a definition of “environmental sustainability as the maintenance of natural capital” and as a concept apart from, but connected to, both social sustainability and economic sustainability. “environmental” quite often tend to be associated with some kind of human impact on natural systems. This context distinguishes it from the word “ecological,” which can be characterized as a concept of interdependence of elements

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