Regionalization is an objective process of development of mankind, society, countries, cities and regions. It allows people to find meaning in life in any part of the world and to understand a significance of different regions for all inhabitants of the earth. By region, in this case, we mean a stable open system of socio-cultural and economic type, localized in a certain area. Thus region is a territory that is comprehended by human, deliberately marked in the common geographical space and acquired by community living on it.

6 – 8 September 2016
SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT
The main goal of this conference is to enhance and spread the role of sustainable architecture in improving the quality of built environment in developing countries by saving energy, using renewable energy, and using efficient sustainable building materials and other aspects that achieve the environmental efficiency.

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02 – 04 December 2015
CAIRO, EGYPT
Improving sustainability concept in developing countries conference organized by IEREK considered as the first step in spreading science and knowledge through this organization.
Sustainability Concept main goal is to enhance and spread the role of sustainable architecture in improving the quality of built environment in developing countries by saving energy, using renewable energy, and using efficient sustainable building materials and other aspects that achieve the environmental efficiency.

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Population density exerts significant influence over socioeconomic characteristics and sustainability of rural communities. Despite such understanding, studies on the roles of population density on socioeconomic backgrounds and sustainability of communities in rural areas are often overlooked. Thus, the understanding of population density in rural areas has become an important issue to be studied. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of population density on the rural communities’ sustainability with a special focus on Shaqlawa, one of the major districts in Kurdistan, Iraq. This study aims to find the particular significance of population density as an important theme in understanding the sustainability degree of settled rural communities, where disparity and falling density here presents practical problems for rural planners. Data were gathered from mixed-method approach involving two data sources: interviews as well as governmental and non- governmental records. Statistical and content analysis were used to analyze the data and then triangulated to examine the causal relationships. The quantitative information was obtained mainly from available secondary data, while the qualitative data was the result of the responses to the structured and semi- structured interview questions that focused on community sustainability addressed to five stakeholders (District administrators) plus 24 key informative, Community leaders, four from each of the six participating villages. In discussing the outcomes, this study has established that rural population density is an important variable in describing and evaluating rural sustainability. In Shaqlawa, people from low density villages led lives of relatively lower sustainability whereas people from high density villages led lives of higher level of sustainability

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Stakeholder Forum has produced a 'Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas'. A section is devoted to targets and indicators related to sustainable cities and human settlements.

Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas
Putting stakeholders at the core of post-Rio+20 processes

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A Whole World SDG:
• A Sustainable Earth Footprint
• And method for thoughtfully managing earth systems

We have always needed an SDG for reducing our global footprint, in a way that would thoughtfully manage world economic systems to do so. The secret to it is having a method for informing businesses, consumers, investors, regulators and market, all the economic decision makers, on what their own and each other’s decisions result in.

We now have good scientific methods that are constantly improving for matching economic choices and economic footprints.
• LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) accounts for the traceable impacts of individuals and
businesses
• EF (Ecological Footprint) measures national renewable resource use using trade
statistics.
• EI (Economic Impact) Combines traceable impacts by any method with shares of
untraceable impacts for measurable ESG factors, using shares of GDP as end user
shares of responsibility for total production and consumption impacts going into GDP.

We also have improving understanding of their long term costs. If collected for implementing the SDG’s, that information can be used to quite rationally steer decision making for the markets, giving regulators, investors, businesses and consumers a good understanding of what their decisions cost.

Combining traceable and shares of untraceable impacts that way “internalizes all externalities”. That makes the World SDG easy to define, with a goal of having all impacts approach their own limits, safely, and within all recognized cultural, economic and planetary boundaries.

It would work by:
• Matching shares of GDP with shares of the Economic Impacts that end user production
and consumption cause
• Attributing societal economic costs to those impacts with measurable costs.
• Push science to learn how to do this better and better, so work on individual
SDG’s can be done in balance with the World.

It would take effect by:
• Assessing measurable impact costs attributable to individual causes to those responsible
• and the balance… to everyone else by their share of GDP, as an implied global
environmental obligation and debt.
For
• Poverty - caused by increasing resource demands driving up resource costs unsustainably
• Societal costs of industrial farming from pollution and depletion to destabilizing
traditional communities and deforestation
• Climate change - showing everyone that the enormous cost of inaction will come
directly out of their own pockets.
It is widely recognized humanity is far from living sustainably, having already living well beyond the carrying capacity of the earth. Clearly we need a well-defined SDG to reduce our global footprint.

1 8-Jan-14 Jessie Henshaw IPS Statement for OWG7 based on her “Ideal Model - Ideal Model: New Architecture” http://synapse9.com/signals/2013/12/08/ideal-model-new-architecture-capitalism-witha-puropse/
2 LCA is the world standard method for assessing traceable impact, and the one on which most others are based
3 EF is a product of the Global Footprinting Network
4 EI is biophysical economic systems accounting: Henshaw, King & Zarnikau 2011“Systems Energy Assessment” in Sustainability MDPI see http://synapse9.com/signals/2013/12/08/ideal-model-new-architecture and http://synapse9.com/SEA

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Statement by Elizabeth Blake, general counsel and senior vice president of advocacy and government affairs of Habitat for Humanity International, on the Seventh Session of the United Nations’ Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.

Habitat for Humanity supports the United Nations’ discussion of sustainable cities | Habitat for Humanity Int'l

This position paper outlines the belief of Habitat for Humanity International (HfHI) that the importance of and dire need for adequate housing ought to be recognized in the context of a discussion around the call for a sustainable cities and human settlements goal. The paper mentions and lays out recommendations for elevating adequate housing in the post-2015 MDG agenda.

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What are priorities for sustainable cities and transportation, from a gender perspective

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By PLoS ONE - Open Access

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BY GORDON MCGRANAHAN, DEBORAH BALK and BRIDGET ANDERSON
ENVIRONMENT & URBANIZATION

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This note outlines the case for a stand-­alone urban SDG.

It explains why alternative approaches that treat urbanization as a “cross--‐cutting” issue and spread urban issues across separate goals for infrastructure, social services, and environmental sustainability would fail to mobilize cities or address the essential role that urbanization must play in sustainable development.

This note prepared by the SDSN Thematic Group on Sustainable Cities. Supported by UN-­Habitat,UCLG, Cities Alliance, ICLEI, and Metropolis.

Communitas is a coalition for sustainable cities & regions led by its core partners - Tellus Institute,ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability, nrg4SD- Network of Regional Governments
for Sustainable Development and UN-Habitat - with the support of the Ford Foundation, the
Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation, and the European Union. Our technical methodology is
based on thematic work groups led by experts producing issues papers with proposals for urban
targets in close consultation with a multi-stakeholder advisory committee.

On 5-6 December 2013, the Communitas Coalition held its first Experts’ Workshop - in collaboration
with UN DESA, Member States Friends of Cities, Major Groups & Stakeholders and the
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) - to enable governments to discuss
informally with experts, Major Groups and stakeholders and the UN system the issue of
sustainable urbanization in the future SDGs framework and UN development agenda. By
building on the lessons learned and the results achieved by the MDGs, the workshop’s vision
was to advance just, prosperous and sustainable city-regions as a key element of the overall
new UN Development Agenda; and therefore capitalize on the megatrend of urbanization in
order to halt growing inequality and longstanding poverty at the city-region scale within the
framework of sustainable development.

This document as of December 2013 compiles First Draft Issues Papers discussed at Experts’ Workshop.

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This paper is a common contribution from different members of the Major Groups, supporting a stand-alone SDG on “Sustainable urbanization”. It has been elaborated on the occasion of several meetings between some members of the Major Groups and a public workshop during the 10th edition of Ecocity, the World Summit on Sustainable cities, on September 27, 2013 in Nantes (France).

This text has been endorsed by:
-UCLG and ICLEI (Organising Partners of Local Authorities Major Group)
-MGCY (Major Group for Children and Youth)
-World Federation of Engineering Organisations (one of the focal points of the Scientific & Technological Community)
-International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), French National Committee
-4D, coordinator for French NGOs –post Rio follow-up

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This document has been drafted on behalf of the Scientific Committee for the ICSU-IAMP programme on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment – A Systems Analysis Approach. The Scientific Committee is supportive of the core messages in the TST issues briefs and offers these comments to highlight connections between human health and wellbeing and sustainable development at the city scale, giving specific attention to potential indicators and data on health and wellbeing.

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We, the Mayors and local leaders coming from 20 cities on four continents convened in Bonn, Germany’s United Nations City and home to ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, by the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, together with our partners at the Resilient Cities Congress 2013;

- urge nations to adopt a universal Sustainable Development Goal for cities and announce our readiness to collaborate with all local government networks and global partners to ensure its implementation as part of the post-2015 development agenda and the post-2015 disaster risk reduction framework.

- call for new modalities of interaction for local and subnational governments in order to fulfil their role as governmental stakeholders in global efforts on sustainability with in the High Level Political Forum of the post Rio+20 process at the United Nations, including involvement in agenda setting, consultation and implementation.

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