Sustainability
Sustainability and the Informal City - Peter Head
Peter Head is a Director at Arup and leads the newly integrated businessof Planning and Integrated Urbanism. He graduated in Civil Engineeringfrom the Imperial College, London and is a recognised world expert onsustainable development of cities. He is a recipient of The Order of BritishEmpire (OBE) for services to the industry.
In this lecture Peter Head tell us how we can achieve a sustainable development. The biggest question we face today is how would the world live with9 billion people by 2050. With 59 per cent of total urban population,the urban informal settlements in India dominate the world. We can noticein Cuba that by a surprising turn of events with its imports on oil blockedby the U.S., Cuba has turned into the most successful sustainable modelof development in the world. Havana is a remarkably sustainable urbanagglomeration. Our targets for 2050 should be a 50 per cent reduction inworld carbon emissions (w.r.t 1990 emissions) along with a stable increasein Human Development Index (HDI). If we achieve this target, we can enteran ecological age.
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