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Integrated Sustainable Regulation and Policies
In order to achieve a sustainable environment, integration of regulations and policies should be
enforced. This solution could be considered as a long term solution. Government is responsible
to put these policies and regulations. Thus, it should put a penalty for the outlaw people. These
regulation should considered the three pillars of sustainability which are; environment, economy
and social. Because of each one of these is connected to the other and cannot be separated. Regulations and policies should be taken for every practice that cause a negative environmental and
economic impact, deplete the natural resources, increase the climate change, increase the heat
island effect and affect the human health and wellbeing.
When the government implements these strategies and policies to protect the environment, the
habitat will be affected and encouraged. So, integrated regulation in the country will encourage
the people to change their behaviour and becoming more awareness about the environment.
National policy should have strategies that reduce the climate change and global warming. These
can be at local government level, and then it will have the potential to be international. It promotes the growth of the natural resources, decrease the automobile emissions and increase the
potential of renewable energy. Thus, it encourages the habitant and the private organizations to
embrace the sustainable practices (Salkin 2009).

Conclusions
To conclude, Turkey is one of the countries that have aesthetic and valuable natural features
which can increase the quality of life. These features should be conserved by using sustainable
strategies and policies that protect them from degrading. Therefore, this study provides the most
appropriate strategies that could help the country after reviewing the main problems. In order to
insure the high quality of living, reducing the death rate because of the diseases and pollutants
in the air, and providing the citizens all the support to live safely in their country are essential
features. Furthermore, sustainable living should be spread all over the world in order to stop the
global environmental crises and helping one and other. Starting the implementation in one country will encourage the awareness of the other countries.

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