Contemporary sustainability issues in urban areas:

1. Waste management - recycling and its alternatives

2. Transport and its managment - the development of integrated, efficient and sustainable systems.

WASTE: -  complete this word doc using your text and research...(work together)  TRY THIS

Incinerators are currently being planned on more than 80 sites under the so-called "dash for ash".

A UK campaign group against incineration - so, plenty of negatives on this website!

Energy Recovery - watch the clip on the London Waste Website 

EU countries compared

Defra - latest data for UK

You need examples of waste management strategies: London, Cairo and Dhaka are useful, contrasting approaches. Complete your research and then write an answer to the question here.

London's Waste Strategy -

Dhaka - a waste collection and composting scheme - summary

Much of Cairo’s waste has been resourcefully collected and reused by a poor working class known as the Zabaleen. After a failed attempt to modernise and sanitize this system by bringing in foreign waste-collecting companies, some major advantages to developing a sustainable, economically logical and uniquely Cairo waste-collecting system have become clear.  BBC NEWS report  Independent Newspaper article  WATCH this trailer to a film about their lives  article

TRANSPORT

How long would you spend in a traffic jam??

Assess the effectiveness of London's approaches to transport management 

Consider what effectiveness looks like - it needs to be a transport system that is integrated, efficient and sustainable... So, consider this as you gather some examples of London's approach...

London's Transport Strategies

Has the Congestion Charged worked? - scroll down and watch the video clip too!

Congestion Charge website

a new bus for London

The M25

Pedestrianisation

Average road speeds in London have in fact increased just a little to an "admittedly not supersonic" 9.4 miles an hour!

Cross Rail - know its aims and opening date??

Other UK examples?  Manchester MetroLink

Curitiba is a well known example of model for a sustainable city - it is in Brazil!  Curitiba   Geofactsheet  WATCH THIS  and this evaluation of the rapid bus transit system

Curitiba- Green Exchange Programme

A summary of the scheme here

Rio de Janerio - The CAG cable car project - what are its benefits? - WATCH

http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/cities.asp