1) Shanghai faces challenges in achieving sustainable development due to resource scarcity, high development costs, and lack of core technologies. 2) While Shanghai has improved air quality standards over the years, it still exceeds WHO limits and has a long way to go to meet world standards. The city encourages public transportation use to reduce private car emissions. 3) Shanghai has expanded rapidly but still relies on domestic food supplies and aims to maintain minimum arable land levels to ensure food security for its large population into the future.

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3. Definition
SUSTENABLE
DEVELOPMENT
is development that
meets the needs of the
present without
compromising the ability
of future generations to
meet their own needs.

4. Circles of Sustainability
SD

5. Economic Sustainability

6. Socialpolitical Sustainability

7. Environmental Sustainability

8. Case Study---Shanghai
Population: 25million
Land area: 9,326,410 sq. km. Density: 3,700/km2
(9,700/sq mi)

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This is a real photo shot in
Dec,2013.
For
seven
days, children and the
elderly
were
warned
against going outside and
shocking images showed
an entire city nearly
disappear
from
the
skyline.

11. Shanghai’s Environmental Protection Bureau will issue alerts when
concentration of PM 2.5 (the smallest and most dangerous
particulates) is above 115 microgram per cubic meter, nearly five
times maximum 25 level World Health Organization officials
recommend as safe. The air quality can be acceptable when
compared with China’s other major cities.

12. However,
when it comes to the
world standard, according to AQI,
there is still a long way to go
regarding the aspect of improving
air quality.

13. Unlike tap water
that can be drunk
directly in western
countries, it is not
safe to drink it in
China. 20 % of the
water pipes in
Shanghai were built
in 1968.

15. The problem of food supply is an important
one for the future,when large industrial cities
will increasingly be superomposed on the
more slowly chaning Chinese agricultural
pattern. Rice is the basic food commodity for
Shanghai.
China has been striving to maintain food selfsufficiency, or rely mainly on domestic grain
supply. The government has set a minimum
line of 1.8 billion mu (120 million hectares)
of arable land to ensure food security.

16. 1 ） Resource scarcity; a relatively large gap exists between Shanghai and other
major provinces in terms of resources.
2)
High cost of development, influenced by factors such as application
conditions, infrastructure, and component prices.
3) Shanghai lacks core technology. The predicament of maintaining technology
but lacking property rights and application is especially salient.

17. From the chart below, we can see that Shanghai has been
expanding its area with an enormous speed since 1979,
after the policy of reform and openingup. All the patterns
of land use have an increase in different degree.

18. Although Shanghai phased-out the use of leaded gasoline and
implemented Euro-I and Euro-II standards on July 1, 1999 and
March 1, 2003, respectively, environmental monitoring data taken
in 2004 revealed little improvement in Shanghai’s air quality.
The local government often encougrages citicens to use
less private cars so as to a better living environment to
live in. Celebrities are also as the example to appeal to
people to take metro to workplace everyday o ride a
bicycle so that there will beless car emssions.

19. Throughout the city there are recycling containers
next to regular waste bins.
On the bins are posters depicting, rather crudely,
what can and cannot be recycled.
However, most people seemed to just throw away
their trash in either side of the bin indiscriminately.
Furthermore, it was very difficult to tell if those
that recycled correctly (plastic bottles, newspaper,
food/beverage container into the green bin) did so
intentionally or coincidentally.

20. Shanghai, as China’s most developed and prosperous city, it may not
fully represent the whole aspect of China’s sustainable development.
However, in some sense it can reflect that China still has a long way to
go regarding this major task. And it needs the all the efforts from government , compaines and citizens. Only if the people’s conciousness
Has rised, can the city develop towards a sustainable direction.

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