Sustainable Urban Planning

empowerment A term which can be regarded as similar to but less

politically centrist than ‘enablement’.

enablement The inculcation of skills and education for enabling indi-

viduals and communities to comprehend their situational

circumstances responsibly, enabling them to take eco-

logically acceptable action and to make progressive social

change. Self-esteem and mutual trust are outcomes of

enablement.

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

GIS Geographic Information System

hh Households (per acre/hectare)

inclusionary Controls aimed at specifying a category of uses and users

for inclusion in a specified area. Inclusionary ‘rural’

zoning is aimed at including rural activities, land uses

and farming occupiers – and by inference, excluding the

likes of urban activities and urban-worker residents.

Landcare Rural land-use programmes engaging a bottom-up

philosophy wherein landowners are guided to identify

their own problems and provide their own sustainable

solutions.

Local Agenda 21s A phrasing coined from the 1992 ‘Rio Declaration’ (United

Nations Conference on Environment and Development)

published as Agenda 21– an agenda for environment and

development in the twenty-first Century. A ‘Local Agenda

21’ is a policy-and-plan document which embodies the

Rio Declaration principles in a local manner and style. See

Appendix to chapter 5.

MAI Multilateral Agreement on Investment, an ‘on hold’

global protocol for free trade without tariffs.

metric equivalents Distances: One metre is 3.28 feet (1 foot is 0.305 m); 1

kilometer is 1000 m: approximately 0.62 mile: one mile is

1.61 km.

Areas: Hectare 10,000 m^2 – and approx 2.5 acres: one acre

is 43,560 sq. ft. – and aprox 0.4 ha. 1 m^2 equals 10.75 sq. ft.

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