VISION: My take on the future!
In the present-day scenario, climate change has a major impact on biodiversity and is proving to be a major threat in the coming future. Global warming effects on weather conditions and the changing patterns of rainfall and drought can have adverse effects on the life cycle. As an urgent response, many climate change mitigation settings and strategies have concluded to protect the ecosystems by preventing global warming emissions and sustaining the resources.
Sustainable design of the built environment is one such factor that aimed at creating neutral environmental outcomes where it tried to reduce the environmental damage but failed to remediate the past and current damage. For instance, schools have become technologically advanced, where these centres of learning are mostly concrete structures with a lack of environmental integration, standing as fragments on-site yet aiming to be energy-efficient to lessen the burden on earth’s renewable resources. This impacted the children’s learning experience and seemed to be more artificial compared to their learning in a natural setting.
While energy-efficient buildings seemed to make them less bad compared to other buildings, these strategies still result in negative environmental impact. To limit the negative environmental outcomes, the built environment must go beyond its efforts possibly aiming for a positive environmental outcome. This suggests that the built environment should work on creating small scale regenerative developments that can remediate the past and current damage while contributing more than it consumes to the ecosystems.
This change enables ecosystems to recover and to be restored to its original healthy state making it self-sustainable and regenerative. Consideration of how to create such built environments is needed given the urgency and the scarcity of built examples reaching even a neutral environment stage.
