2. Sustainable lifestyles
Living a sustainable lifestyle attempts to reduce a
individual's or society’s use of the Earth's natural
resources.
3. Ecological Footprint
The impact of a person or community on the
environment, expressed as the amount of land
required to sustain their use of natural resources.
4. Environmental factors that affect liveability
There are several factors that can reduce the quality of liveability
of an environment:
Factors Provide an example of these hazard (can be a picture)
Natural hazards
Conflict
Population pressures
Land degradation
6. Sustainability and Liveability
Read through the information on page 158 of the textbook “A Sustainable Lifestyle”.
Looking at the image.
1. What are the causes of pollution in cities?
1. List some causes of pollution in rural areas?
7. Discuss how can pollution and overconsumption affect the
liveability of our communities?
8. Case Study Task
Choose a case study to work on that explores the Air Quality and/or
Water Quality of a place in the world.
Sydney Riyadh Algiers Harare Mexico City
Lahore Port Au Prince Xingtai Patna Delhi
Zabol Johannesburg Bogota Gwalior Los Angeles
9. Name of city
Country it is in:
How many people live in this city:
Provide a map of the city Provide a picture of the city
10. Air quality
1. How is air quality measured in general?
1. Does your city have good air quality? Why/why not?
1. What might be contributing to the good/bad air quality?
11. Water quality
1. How can we measure water quality in general?
1. Does the city have good water quality? Why/why not?
1. What might be contributing to the good/poor water quality?
12. Pollution in your city
Insert an image of the type of pollution you think is worst in your
city and describe it.
Insert image here Description of pollution in your city.
13. Liveability in your city
1. Do you consider this to be a liveable city? Why/why not?
1. How would you recommend the city you have researched
could improve their environment so that their city is more
liveable?
