The
effect of improper layout and landscape planning could lead to several environmental
problems’ they are typically referring to damage to the physical environment,
mostly caused by other people, and usually with harmful consequences for human
welfare, either now or in the future. So common sense suggests that urban
environmental problems are threats to present or future human well-being,
resulting from human-induced damage to the physical environment, originating in
or borne in urban areas.
effect of improper layout and landscape planning could lead to several environmental
problems’ they are typically referring to damage to the physical environment,
mostly caused by other people, and usually with harmful consequences for human
welfare, either now or in the future. So common sense suggests that urban
environmental problems are threats to present or future human well-being,
resulting from human-induced damage to the physical environment, originating in
or borne in urban areas.
This
definition includes:
definition includes:
·
Localized
environmental health problems such as inadequate household water and sanitation
and indoor air pollution.
Localized
environmental health problems such as inadequate household water and sanitation
and indoor air pollution.
·
City-regional
environmental problems such as ambient air pollution, inadequate waste
management and pollution of rivers, lakes and coastal areas.
City-regional
environmental problems such as ambient air pollution, inadequate waste
management and pollution of rivers, lakes and coastal areas.
·
Extra-urban
impacts of urban activities such as ecological disruption and resource
depletion in a city’s hinterland, and emissions of acid precursors and
greenhouse gases.
Extra-urban
impacts of urban activities such as ecological disruption and resource
depletion in a city’s hinterland, and emissions of acid precursors and
greenhouse gases.
·
Regional
or global environmental burdens that arise from activities outside a city’s
boundaries, but which will affect people living in the city
Regional
or global environmental burdens that arise from activities outside a city’s
boundaries, but which will affect people living in the city
