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Recently, climate change has become one of the most serious problems
threatening the entire world. Therefore, most world countries moved forward to
achieve sustainability with all its different kinds in all sectors as well as they
concerned to measure progress in achieving sustainability by many indicators,
mainly Ecological footprint and Biocapacity.
Studying the relation between these two indicators determines accurately the
country environmental status. If biocapacity exceeds ecological footprint, the
country will have ecological reserve, conversely if ecological footprint exceeds
biocapacity, it will suffer ecological deficit.
Lately, world suffers ecological deficit; the ecological footprint of 2014 reached
2,84 global hectares for a person. Yet the available for a person was 1,68 global
hectares. In the same year in Egypt the ecological footprint reached 1,98 global
hectares which comperes well with global average but if it compared to national
available biocapacity for a person ,47 global hectares, the serious environmental
situation in Egypt is very clear. In addition to the low quality of life in Egypt which
placed the second before the last out of 60 countries according to Numbeo rank.
Construction is considered as the most energy and natural resources-consuming
field. It consumes 1/3 of global energy, 1/6 of world’s need of fresh water, 1/4 of
wood production, and causes 1/2 of greenhouse gas emission. Therefore, most
countries realized the importance of this field in reducing global ecological footprint
and started to change their housing policy.
In Egypt, housing buildings consume 43% of total energy; construction and
demolition wastes are 5,3%, municipality wastes are 23,2%, sewage wastes are 2%
of the total generated solid wastes. In spite of, the demand for housing (besides
transportation and infrastructure) represents 37% of ecological footprint of Egypt ;
the government is still carrying out housing projects with no attention to the
ecological footprint of such projects.
Because of the great effect of housing sector on ecological footprint of
countries that suffer an increased ecological deficit, the research theme is how to
reduce the ecological footprint in every stage of preparation to these projects
starting from policy-making, planning, designing, implementing, operating and to
the stage of demolition.
The search aims mainly to investigate planning and designing principles and
considerations that reducing the ecological footprint of governmental housing
projects, as well as improving quality- of- life. The applied methodology included set
of tools to achieve the research objectives. Descriptive and analytical approach was
estimated to study the ecological footprint as the most valuable indicator of the
sustainable development. Moreover, the connection between EF and housing
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sustainability was revealed to help proposing checklist for low ecological footprint
houses.
After that the researcher applied descriptive and analytical approach to study
some international and regional experiences that succeeded to reduce housing
ecological footprint. Then, a deductive approach was engaged to inventory the most
important principles of reducing housing ecological footprint. Finally, a case study
approach was applied to evaluate Mubarak Housing Project in Sohag from ecological
footprint perspective applying the proposed checklist.
Towards achieving the study goals, the research consists of three chapters:
chapter one is a theoretical study to review the previous scientific literature of
ecological footprint and sustainable housing. Chapter Two is an analytical study to
analyze global experiences. Chapter three is a field study, and then the research
concludes with results and recommendations. Thesis chapters contain the following:
Chapter one : Ecological footprint and sustainable housing
It discusses the theoretical background of the ecological footprint and explains
how housing demand contributes in Egypt’s ecological footprint.
besides reviewing the previous science literature of housing sustainability aiming to
draw basics of achieving housing sustainability in planning and designing.
chapter two: Number of global and regional experiences in reducing housing
ecological footprint
The study discusses the experiences of United Kingdom, Norway, Australia,
United States of America and finally United Arab Emirates in reducing housing
ecological footprint as well as setting planning and designing basis and
considerations can be applied in Egypt.
Chapter three: Study Case: Governmental housing projects in Egypt( Mubark
Housing Project in Sohag)
This chapter reveals a brief study of housing problem and reviews some of
executed governmental housing projects. It shows an analysis through field study to
Mubark Housing Project in Alqawther district.
The research concluded to set of results through theoretical, analytical and field
study. These results are general and other related to Mubark housing projects. The
researcher adopted set of general recommendations and other recommendations
related to the recent and upcoming governmental housing projects.