Contents

• 1. Executive summary 4
• 2. Introduction 4
• 2.1. Sustainable city 5
• 3. Sustainability vision 6
• 4. Different plans for sustainability 8
• 4.1. Rapid urbanization in the globalizing world 8
• 4.2. Brundtland commission report: our common future 9
• 4.3. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: Agenda 21 (1992) 9
• 4.4. Sustainable Communities Act 2007 10
• 4.5. Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative 2008 11
• 5. Literature review 12
• 5.1. History of the concept 12
• 5.2. Sustainable food 12
• 5.3. Sustainable consumption 13
• 5.4. Green jobs in the country 13
• 5.5. The built environment 14
• 5.6. Environmental protection 14
• 5.7. Education for sustainable environment 15
• 5.8. Environmental justice 16
• 5.9. Sustainable procurement 16
• 6. Dimension for sustainability in a city 17
• 6.1. Sustainable infrastructure and mobility 17
• 6.2. Environment and diversity 18
• 6.3. Local policies for sustainable development 18
• 6.4. Social acceptability 19
• 6.5. Energy consumption 19
• 6.6. Sustainable lifestyle 20
• 7. Sustainability plan of UAE 20
• 7.1. Initiative plans and strategies for sustainable development 21
• 7.2. CSR as Sustainability development first initiative 21
• 7.3. Environmental data access as the second initiative towards sustainability development 22
• 7.4. Sustainable infrastructure as third initiative 23
• 7.4.1. Green building 24
• 7.5. Sustainable energy consumption 24
• 7.6. Sustainability and trade offs 25
• 7.7. Strategic sustainability 25
• 8. Urban sustainability development 25
• 8.1. Dimensions for urban development 26
• 8.2. Ecological footprint 28
• 8.3. Model of urban development 29
• 8.3.1. Growth model 30
• 8.3.2. Compact urban development model 30
• 9. Critical success factor 31
• 10. Evaluation of the plan 33
• 10.1. Different assessment methods 35
• 10.2. Strategy evaluation 35
• 11. Recommendation 37
• 12. Conclusion 38
• Bibliography 39

Description

The objective behind writing this report is to analyze the sustainability development of UAE. In this sustainability report firstly the concept of sustainability has been discussed and then the meaning of sustainable city has been given which simply means making the human life better. The citizen of a sustainable city leaves in an eco friendly environment, with low pollution and better standard of living with limited resources.
Then in the next phase of this report the principles of the sustainable development has been discussed. Here the factors that affect the development of a country has been discussed, the principles of the development that contribute in the development of the region. Then the factors that show the sustainability development pattern has been discussed.
In the next step the report discuss the scenario of UAE, the sustainability vision of the country; the present scenario of the UAE has been discussed, with the future plans of the region for sustainability development. Then the steps for the sustainability development have been mentioned in the report with the measuring criteria’s of those steps. Finally in this report recommendation for further development in the implementation plan has been described with the conclusion and final comment for the same.