environmental sustainability

BCO118 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

FINAL ASSIGNMENT:

For this Final Assignment, worth 60% of the final mark, the student must carry out the following work:

Task Scenario for 2050

Every student must work on a personalized approach to a scenario which must be individual; two or more students cannot work together to produce identical analyses and conclusions.

Your task is to prepare an exploratory scenario for 2050 (cf: Living Planet Report 2018 pp 124- 125), taking into account the topics and issues covered during the course. Your Exploratory Scenario 2050 should:

1. outline the current critical issues which will impact on human life and health in the decade beginning 2050

2. be based on realistic expectations of goals and results arising from governmental, organizational and individual actions

3. describe the potential outcomes of specific environmental strategies that are currently under consideration

4. analyse the current and potential challenges that might hinder the implementation of such strategies

5. summarise and conclude what new initiatives need to be taken at the three levels (governmental, organizational and individual)

You may decide on a minimum of two core issues/topics of your choice to cover in your scenario. Whilst your scenario can include any topics covered in the course, a good starting point is the Living Planet Report 2018.

For your answer, you must provide a logical analysis by drawing on cases and/or theories covered during this course and/or which you learned about through your independent study. Your answers must illustrate flow and progression of ideas through critical and independent thought. Any answer given by you that is identical to an answer given by another student will lead to a down-grade of the answer in question.

REQUIREMENTS

Formalities:

· Wordcount: 1,500 words; Cover page, Table of Contents, Bibliography and Annexes are excluded of the total wordcount.

· Font: Arial 12 pts.

· The in-text references and the bibliography have to be in the Harvard citation style. This includes also for graphic images, tables and photos taken from other sources.

Graduate Program Assessment Brief Academic Year 2020-2021

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Thank you.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The work must be on one single Word.docx document and must be uploaded on the appropriate Turnitin folder created by the course Faculty Member on Moodle.

The title of the student's submitted file should contain the following information:

· Name of this course

· Name of the Faculty Member / Teacher

· Student's full Name

· Student ID number

· Title of this assignment (Mid-Term / Final)

Release Date: As of Week 5.

Submission Deadline: Week 8: at the latest on Sunday, November 29th – 23:59 – Via Moodle (Turnitin).

Weight: This task contributes 60% to your total grade for this course.

GRADING CRITERIA

(Grading matrix/rubric next page)

	Exceptional 90-100	Good 80-89	Fair 70-79	Marginal fail 60-69
Knowledge &	Student	Student	Student understands	Student understands
Understanding	demonstrates	demonstrates good	the task and provides	the task and attempts
(20%)	excellent	understanding of the	minimum conceptual	to answer the question
	understanding of the	task and mentions	and theoretical	but does not mention
	task, the key	some relevant	support, and uses	key concepts or uses
	concepts, applies	concepts and	only some of the	minimum amount of
	theory where useful	demonstrates use of	relevant vocabulary.	relevant vocabulary.
	or necessary, and	the relevant
	uses vocabulary in an	vocabulary.
	entirely appropriate
	manner.
Application	Student applies fully	Student applies	Student applies some	Student applies little
(30%)	relevant knowledge	mostly relevant	relevant knowledge	relevant knowledge
	from the topics	knowledge from the	from the topics	from the topics
	delivered in class.	topics delivered in	delivered in class.	delivered in class.
		class.	Misunderstanding	Misunderstanding is
			may be evident.	evident.
Critical Thinking	Student critically	Student critically	Student provides	Student shows little or
(30%)	assesses in excellent	assesses in good	some insights but	no critical thinking
	ways, drawing	ways, drawing	stays on the surface	insights, does not
	insightful conclusions	conclusions from	of the topic.	quote appropriate
	based on readings	relevant authors and	References may not	authors, and does not
	from relevant	references. Student	be relevant.	provide valid sources.
	authors. Student also	knows how to use
	makes clear and	the Harvard
	correct citations and	referencing method
	uses the Harvard	correctly.
	referencing method
	correctly.
Communication	Student	Student	Student	Student communicates
(20%)	communicates their	communicates their	communicates their	their ideas in a
	ideas very well	ideas in an organized	ideas with some	somewhat unclear and
	organized and	manner and	clarity and concision.	unconcise way. Does
	extremely clearly and	concisely, respecting	It may be slightly	not reach or does
	concisely, respecting	word count,	over or under the	exceed wordcount
	word count, grammar	grammar and	wordcount limit.	excessively and
	and spellcheck.	spellcheck	Some misspelling	misspelling errors are
			errors may be	evident.
			evident.