outline of essay

Title: To what extent can the problem of urbanization be met by a policy of sustainable development?
-to what extent do UK government policies can improve present traffic situation and reduce the impact on the environment to achieve sustainable development.

Introduction:
-the definition of sustainable development and urbanization
-the problems bring about: traffic congestion, pollution, over-crowd, high price houses, high price consumer, crime, competition.
-essay focus: traffic problems and pollution
-the existed sustainable development polices to reduce congestion, improve environment, and to encourage healthier lifestyle:
1. How to feed sustainable, low carbon, travel packages into LTP3 planning (2009)
-encourage sustainable low carbon travel

2. Delivering sustainable, low carbon, travel: An essential guide for Local Authorities (2009)
-encourage environment-friendly transport and reduce carbon emissions

3. How to reduce costs and carbon emissions from business related transport (2008)
-encourage business to adopt low cost and green transport, undertake the environmental responsibility.

-to a large extent the problems can be solved by the sustainable development policies in the long run.


Main body

-The specific problems:
-traffic pollution and noise pollution
-traffic stress and traffic congestion
-carbon emission→climate change
-bad air quality
-exhausting recourses

-Possible solution（Green travel plan）
-reduce car-based travel
-use public transport: bus, rail, and car sharing
-use green travel methods: walking, cycling


-Evidence that can show how successful the sustainable development policies is by presenting transport statistics provided by Department for Transport and researches have done before

Conclusion: -to a large extent the problems can be solved by the sustainable development policies in the long run.

Reference:
Department for Transport, http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/

Guidelines BIG Green Commuter Challenge2010,
www.portmoth.gov.uk/commuterchallenge