Sustainabilty and Resilience Planning

Question 1

A planning approach that pre-dates “smart growth” and sustainability planning.

Answer 1

Growth Managagement

Question 2

Term used to describe planning for greater sustainability.

Provides economic benefits for individuals, neighborhoods, communities, developers, land owners, and the economy.

Answer 2

Smart Growth

Question 3

Smart Growth notes

Ten Primary Goals of Smart Growth

1. Create range of housing opportunity/choice
2. Create walkable neighborhoods.
3. Encourage community/stakeholder collaboration.
4. Foster distinctive, attractive places with a strong sense of place.
5. Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost-effective.
6. Mix land uses.
7. Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental area.
8. Provide a variety of transportation choices.
9. Strengthen/direct development to existing communities.
10. Take advantage of compact building design.

Question 4

The act of balancing the fulfullment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment to meet the needs of present and future populations.

Includes environmental, social, and economic components.

Answer 4

Sustainable Development

Question 5

Phrase coined by John Elkington (1994)

Companies should be preparing three different ______________.
1. Corporoate profit.
2. People
3. The planet

Three “Ps” intended to measure the financial, social, and environmental perforamnce of a corporation over a period of time.

Answer 5

Triple Bottom Line

Question 6

Biological concept indicating the maximum population size of a species that coul dbe sutained in perpetuity within the environment, given the availability of food, water, habitiat, etc.

In planning, used to describe maximum population and employment in a community. Ex. land/infrastructure capacity.

U.S. Sec. of State James Buchanan (1845)

Written about by Ian McHarg (Design With nature)

Answer 6

Carrying Capacity