WKU/COT

Any CITY however Small, is in

fact divided into two, one of
the city of the poor, the
other of the rich”
Wolkite University
College of technology
Department of Architecture
Plato Year II
Adinew Dinku
MAY 2018, YEAR 2 , SEMESTER II , URBAN SOCIOLOGY II, LECTURE 6 Gubrie/Wolkite/Ethiopia
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Sustainable Development , Cities and Wolkite University

College of technology

climate change
Department of Architecture
Year II
Adinew Dinku
MAY 2018, YEAR 2 , SEMESTER II , URBAN SOCIOLOGY II, LECTURE 6 Gubrie/Wolkite/Ethiopia
The topic

 Sustainable Development Goals, by united nation

 Integrate the principles of sustainable development

into country polices and programs and reverse the loss
of environmental resources, Reduce biodiversity loss

 Climate change and cities

 Cases
SDG
SDGS

 Goals to be reached by 2030

 In the next 12 years

 The issues related one another

SDGS

 End poverty in all its forms every where

 End hunger, achieve food security and improved
nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture
 Ensure healthy life and promote wellbeing for all at all
ages
 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and
promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
SDGS

 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and

girls
 Ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all
 Ensure access to affordable, reliable ,sustainable and energy
for all
 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
full and productive employment and decent work for all
SDGS

 Reduce inequalities within and among countries

 Make cities and human settlement inclusive , safe ,resilient and
sustainable
 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine
resources for sustainable development
SDGS

 Promote, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial

ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification
and half and revers land degradation, and half biodiversity loss

 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the

global partnership for sustainable development

Sustainable development

 Development that meets the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs.

Brundtland report
Sustainable development

 The concept is founded in three spheres

Social
Economic
Environmental

Brundtland report
Sustainable development

 Sustainable cities and communities

 Goal 11 – make cities more inclusive , safe ,resilient and
sustainable
Make cities more inclusive , safe
,resilient and sustainable
Make cities more inclusive , safe
,resilient and sustainable
Sustainable development
 Ethiopia already started to
implement
 GTP II is aligned with the SDGs

 Contextualized into national and

sub-national plans and strategies

 Ethiopia's vision of becoming lower

middle income country by 2025,
GTP II is built on…..The post-2015
SDGs
Sustainable development
 Sustainable dev’t goal related to
green economy will be
integrated and implemented
aligned with the sectors climate
resilient green economy strategy

Sustainable development
 The goals related to women and
youth empowerment will be fully
implemented aligned with the
sectors development strategy to
ensure benefit and participation
of women and you in overall
economic, political and
decision-making process”
Sustainable development
 GTP II – Urban Components

 Proactively manage the on-

going rapid urbanization to
unlock its potential for sustained
rapid growth and structural
transformation of the economy

 Emphasis given to increase job

opportunity
Sustainable development
 Address housing problem

 Address infrastructure dev’t ,

roads ,water ,electric city as well
as adequate solid and liquid
waste disposal
 Climate resilient urban centers
Climate resilient green economy
 Focus on adaptation to climate
change and mitigation of
greenhouse gases emissions
 Reducing greenhouse gas
emissions
 protecting and rehabilitating of
forests for their economic and
ecosystem services
 Expanding electricity power
generation from renewable
sources of energy for domestic
and regional markets
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Climate resilient green economy
 Energy efficient technologies in
transportation , industry and
building strategies will be a
major agenda to build climate
resilient green economy.
Climate change and cities

 Rising sea level

 Melting of polar ice
 More, and aggressive, storms due to rising temperature of the oceans
 Additional rain fall
 additional run-off
 Imperviousness of cities
 More severe weather events
 Droughts
Climate change and cities

 Rising sea level

 Melting of polar ice
 More, and aggressive, storms due to rising temperature of the oceans
 Additional rain fall
 additional run-off
 Imperviousness of cities
 More severe weather events
 Droughts
Climate change and cities

 Climate changes threatens all countries

 But in particular developing nations, they are likely to bear 75% of costs of
damages produced by climate change

 A 2 degree Celsius increase of temp. can result in GDP reductions of 4 to 5%

is Africa

 In addition, developing countries will geographically be the main victims of

rising sea-level, stronger hurricanes , more varied rainfall, heatwaves
Climate change and cities

WHY Cities? Ending Climate

change begins in the city
Climate change and cities

They are responsible for

80% of global greenhouse
gas emissions
Climate change and cities

And they consume

between 60 and 80% of the
world’s global energy
production – Industrial
Activities
Climate change and cities

Today 50% of the world

population live in cities

2050 become 65% to 70%

Climate change and cities

The economic
development is linked to
cities, it so is that climate
change is highly linked to
urbanization
Climate change and cities

The economic
development is linked to
cities, it so is that climate
change is highly linked to
urbanization
Climate change and cities

Water availability and quality

Floods
Heat stress( urban heat island effect)
Pollution
Congestion
Waste management
Land use
Climate change and cities

The challenge is higher for

urban poor
Climate change and cities

The challenge is higher for

urban poor
Climate change and cities

The challenge is higher for

urban poor
Climate change and cities

The challenge is higher for

urban poor
Climate change and cities- ??????

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Climate change and cities- ??????

- Use less energy , more efficient

- By 2025 one billion new urban dwellers will
be added – consumer class

- Cities are local laboratories where social

and technical innovation can be tests
before up scaled to national level
Climate change and cities- ??????

- In 2010, more that half of the global

transport emissions happened in urban
areas
Climate change and cities- ??????

- Smart architecture , urban design and

planning
- Build energy efficient city’s

- Urban land has doubled since the 1950s

Climate change and cities- ??????

- The co2 emissions from transport likewise

increased, as also from building
construction

- 40 co2 emission in the process of

construction material
Climate change and cities- ??????

- Integrated land-use and transport planning

can be supportive to mitigate climate
change
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Next lecture
- How to design for all ….
- Sociology from design dimension

- No one expected to be absent ……quize

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Reference  Unitized nation annual report on
sustainable goals
 Urban sociology reader/Journal
 Merina koolsterboor , EiABC
 Zegree chernet, EiABC
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Thank you
Wolkite University
College of technology
Department of Architecture
Year II
Adinew Dinku
MAY 2018, YEAR 2 , SEMESTER II , URBAN SOCIOLOGY II, LECTURE 6 Gubrie/Wolkite/Ethiopia