A Scientific Article on Sustainability was Published
Asst. Prof. Dr. Alia Abdullah Hantoush published an article on sustainable development titled “The Sustainable City.” She explained that the environment is under serious pressure. Our massive disruption of the interconnected global web of life, coupled with environmental change—whether through deforestation, species loss, or climate change—can cause widespread adverse effects, including the unforeseen collapse of critical ecosystems whose interactions and dynamics we do not fully understand. We need a new ethic and a new responsibility to care for ourselves and for the Earth. We must recognize the limitations of the Earth’s capacity to sustain us. We must no longer allow it to be destroyed. This ethic must inspire a broad movement that convinces leaders, governments, and even the dissenting people themselves to implement the necessary changes. Therefore, sustainability must be discussed as part of a single ecosystem, focusing on the interaction between the environment and its resources (natural resources: water, energy, soil, air) and the subsequent pollution and degradation of the ecosystem caused by industrial and urban development. This concept is used to ensure that the Earth is ecologically productive and capable of providing for all its resources. This concept is used to attempt to achieve integration across the natural and social environment. More specifically, sustainability is understood as a matter of biophysical processes, the fundamental principle of contemporary development. It is generally defined as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). Thus, the sustainable development project emphasizes the idea that economic and other development policies, including urban policies, must be based on six principles of sustainability: intergenerational and intragenerational equity, risk-averse strategies, biodiversity conservation, environmental cost internalization, and leadership institutions. The fundamental issue is not sustainable cities, but cities where the sustainability of built form, government structure, production systems, consumption patterns, waste generation, and management systems is consistent with the sustainable development goals of the city and the entire biosphere.
