2.4 Building Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods

What are the ways to build a sustainable urban neighbourhood?

• Environmental Stewardship

• Disaster Risk Management

• Community Resilience

2.4 What is environmental stewardship?

Actions taken by individuals/groups to:

• Protect the environment

• Care for the environment

• Responsibly use the environment

Answer explanation

Refers to the actions taken by individuals or groups to (1) protect, (2) care for or (3) responsibly use the environment to pursue environmental and/or social outcomes.

How can environmental stewardship be promoted?

• Volunteerism

• Public-private partnerships

• Hazard warning systems

The poster encourages neighbours to help and interact with one another during COVID-19. This is an example of...

• Environmental stewardship

• Disaster risk management

• Community resilience

Answer explanation

Community resilience refers to the ability of a community to resist, adapt, and recover from the impacts of disasters in a timely and efficient manner.

The poster shows recommended guidelines to improve residents' readiness to manage fires in their neighbourhoods.

This is an example of...

• Environmental stewardship

• Disaster risk management

• Community resilience

Answer explanation

•Disaster risk: the likelihood of damage to properties, injuries, and loss of lives from a disaster in a given period of time.

The poster shows residents in Singapore neighbourhoods what can and cannot be recycled.

This is an example of...

• Environmental stewardship

• Disaster risk management

• Community resilience

Answer explanation

Environmental stewardship actions should:

•Seek to conserve natural resources

•Preserve the existing natural environment

•Repair the damages and

•Reverse the negative impacts caused by humans to ensure its sustainability

Match the following

• Environmental Stewardship

• Example:

  Monitoring & Warning Systems

• Community Resilience

• Example:

  Residents getting to know one another

• Disaster Risk Management

• Example: Recycling

How can disaster risks be managed in urban neighbourhoods?

• Having a comprehensive disaster risk management plan

• Improving residents’ emergency preparedness

• Implementing monitoring and warning systems

Answer explanation

Urban neighbourhoods are at risk of disasters:

•Disaster risk is the likelihood of damage to properties, injuries, and loss of lives from a disaster in a given period of time.

• All three ways are part of the strategy to manage disaster risks in urban neighbourhoods

What chapters will be tested for WA3?

• 2.2 Ecosystem services in urban neighbourhoods

• 2.3 Common hazards in urban neighbourhoods

• 2.4 Building sustainable neighbourhoods

• 3.1 Designing fieldwork