Sustainable development

National Institute of Technical Teachers
Training and Research,
12/6/2014
Sector 26, Chandigarh

Role of Teachers
in Sustainable
Development
Prof. M. P. Poonia
Director,
NITTTR, Chandigarh
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Sustainable Development is
development that meets the
needs of the present,
without compromising
the ability of future
generations to meet
their own needs
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Declining
Resources and
Ecosystem services
Increasing
demand for Resources and
Ecosystem services
TIME

People shall
be equipped
with the
necessary
knowledge,
skills,
appropriate
values and
attitudes to
manage their
own
development.
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Sustainable Development must
take into account basic human
rights as agreed upon in 1948
by all member countries of the
United Nations.
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Every human being has the
right to:
· Live
· Liberty and security of
person
· Not be a slave
· Not be tortured
· Protection of the law
· A fair and public hearing in
the courts
· Be presumed innocent until
proved guilty
· Freedom of movement and
residence
· Marry and raise a family
· Own property
· Freedom of thought,
· Freedom of opinion and
expression
· Freedom of peaceful
assembly and of
association
· Seek and receive
information and ideas
· Take part in politics
· Work
· Fair wages and equal pay
for equal work
· Social security
· A decent standard of living
· Join a trade union
· Rest and leisure
· Education
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Root cause of all problems
Explosion of Population
• Population in the year 1947 : 340 m
• Population in the last Census : 1040
• Nothing else has multiplied 3 fold
• Not food, neither energy, nor
Infrastructure.
Can India be
Sustainable ?

Perhaps the most
crucial task India
faces is equipping its
burgeoning youth with
education and
skills training.
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Some experts say that water
may be an even more
challenging problem than
energy in the coming decades . .
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Bharat Nagar and other slums, Raoli Junction Ekvira Nagar, Salt pan land
Ganesh Murty Nagar
Near Airport
Slums in the City

Outcome Mumbai: the slum
capital of the world
 7 million+ people living in ‘slums’
 Dysfunctional land & housing
markets
 Declining quality of public
services & security
 Tardy transformation of landuse
& economic functions
 Declining quality of governance
 Ecological footprints expanding
across the subcontinent
 Steady decline in resource-use
efficiency
 Increasing polarisation of wealth
this is clearly unsustainable
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 Top 10 most POLLUTED cities in the
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Hydrocarbons –
Lung Cancer
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 India is one of Worlds Largest CO2 Emitter
 India’s Rivers are among the most polluted in
the entire world
 Ganga is around 3000% higher than what is
considered safe for bathing
 Large Indian cities will soon become like
Chinese cities because of SMOG
 Endosulfan has been banned in the most of
the countries except India
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0 5 10 15 20 25
United States
Canada
Russian Federation
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Poland, Rep
Ukraine
Korea, Rep
South Africa
Italy
France
Mexico
China
India
Developed Countries
(metric tons of carbon dioxide)

 India has been ranked as the 7th most
environmentally hazardous country in the
World
 Vehicle emissions are responsible for 70% of
the India’s air pollution
 Banglore holds the title as Asthma Capital of
the Country
 40 million tones of MSW per year
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 Sukinda in Orissa is among the
world’s top 10 most polluted
places
 Potentially affected people:
2,600,000
 Pollutants: Hexavalent chromium
due to its Chromite mines.
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Potentially affected people: 71,000
Pollutants: Chemicals and heavy metals due
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to its Industrial estates.

Gobindgarh in Punjab is
the most polluted city
 Number of people affected: 155,416
 Type of pollutant: High dust and smoke
particulate
 Source of pollution: Industrial units
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 The mean temperature in South eastern
region has increased at 0.1 - 0.30 per
decade between 1951 and 2000
 Rainfall trended downward during 1960-
2000
 Sea levels have risen 1 - 3 mm per year
 Heat waves, droughts, floods and tropical
cyclones have been more intense and
frequent, causing extensive damage to
property, assets and human life >>>
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 Annual mean temperature is projected to
rise 4.80 C on an average by 2100 from
1990
 Mean sea level is projected to rise by 70
cm during the same period following the
global trend
 Such change in the climate will have
severe impact on the countries like
Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam,
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri
Lanka and India >>>
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 Global warming is likely to cause rice
yield potential to decline by up to 50%
on an average by 2100 compared to 1990
in these seven countries; and
 A large part of the dominant forest /
woodland could be replaced by tropical
savanna and shrub with low or no carbon
sequestration potential (Shukla, P R et
al, 2007)
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There are many actions that
individual can take to reduce the
By saving gas, these actions are
good for: respiratory health, helping clean
the air, fighting climate change, and saving
you money!
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Leave your car at home
 Before you drive, consider the alternatives : walking,
riding your bicycle or taking public transportation.
Share vehicles: Carpooling or ride sharing reduces the
number of vehicles on the road.
Reduce your number of trips:
The best way to reduce fuel use
and save money is by planning
activities and combining errands
to reduce the number of trips.
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• Biomass is a key link between Energy, Local Environment, Climate Change
• Transition to modern biomass can deliver development & climate co-benefits
• In Developing Counties, Rural Employment is key to transition to modern biomass
• Rising productivity is vital to reducing pressure on land and resolving food vs. energy
security conflict
• Mainstreaming climate in development would accrue multiple dividends
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This is a very novel way of re-capturing
some of the energy
expended by vehicles moving at
high speeds on our nations
highways which is being
proposed by an Arizona State
University. Knowingly, air
turbulence is generated by
vehicles moving at speed
particularly trucks and the
proposal would involve mounting
horizontal wind turbines above
the roadway that would be driven
by the moving air generated by
the passing traffic. The
electricity generated by spinning
these turbines could be fed back
into the grid. Analysis indicate
that based on vehicle speeds of
70 mph each turbine could
produce 9,600 kWh per year.
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The M.A.R.S. (Magenn Power
Air Rotor System) is an
interesting device that is
capable of harnessing the
power of the wind to generate
electricity, sending that power
down a 330 meter tether rope
for consumption. Since the
M.A.R.S. is filled with helium, it
is capable of flying much
higher than other wind turbines
in order to gain access to
higher wind speeds. The 4.0
kW unit will enter production
this year.
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The MadLev is a
magnetically levitated
wind turbine that can
generate one GW of
power (enough to
power 750,000
homes) and delivers
clean power for less
than one cent per
kilowatt hour using
this wind turbine.
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The Atkins designed Bahrain
World Trade Center (BWTC)
made history when the three
turbines which are allocated
between the two adjourning
towers were turned together
for the first time.
The three 29m-diameter
turbine blades on Bahrain’s
iconic landmark are the first
in the world to be integrated
on such a scale into a
commercial development and
are forecast to provide the
equivalent of 11-15% of the
power for the two towers
when fully operational.
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As wind played
over the building’s
“skin” the turbines
would spin and
create energy that
would be fed into
the building’s
electrical grid.
They would also
absorb carbon
dioxide.
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The designers
came up with
the idea for
the planned
city Masdar, a
2.3 sq. mile,
Automobile –
free area
being built
outside of
Abu Dhabi.
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Windstalk is
completely silent, and
the image associated
with them is something
we're already used to
seeing in a field of
wheat or reeds in a
marsh. Our hope is that
people living close to
them will like to walk
through the field –
especially at night –
under their own,
private sky of
swarming stars –
Núñez-Ameni.
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Let us sacrifice our today
so that our children can
have a better tomorrow.
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Present consumption requires ~2.0 worlds
21st century Population growth needs
1.5+ worlds
Ending poverty at present throughout ~2.0
worlds
Available
only One
World

Catalysing five national outcomes by the 2030s
‘Inclusive’ Economic Growth
Reduced Poverty and
Inequality
Social Transformation
Environmental Sustainability
Unified & Robust Policy

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