BCO118 Environmental Sustainability Summative
Task Brief Summative 2
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- Individual task
- Prepare an exploratory scenario for 2050. Review the main issues presented in the Living Planet Report (2020) https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/4783129/LPR/PDFs/ENGLISH-FULL.pdf . Develop an exploratory scenario about biodiversity in 2050. Guiding questions for your scenario:
- What current critical issues which will impact biodiversity in the decade beginning 2050 are you considering in your scenario?
- What assumptions are you making in this scenario?
- Describe your scenario considering:
- realistic expectations of goals and results arising from governmental, organizational and individual actions
- potential outcomes of specific environmental strategies that are currently under consideration
- current and potential challenges that might hinder the implementation of such strategies
- Make one recommendation of an initiative that needs to be taken by the public and private sector and individuals for this scenario
Contextual information:
- Draw on cases and/or theories covered during this course and/or which you learned about through your independent study.
- In the Living Planet Report (2020) you will find examples of scenarios from page 116-125.
Formalities:
- Wordcount: 1,500 words
- Table of contents:
- Critical issues
- Assumptions
- Scenario
- Recommendations
- Cover and References are excluded of the total wordcount
- Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
- Text alignment: Justified.
- The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
Submission: July the 18th at 23:59– Via Moodle (Turnitin).
Weight: This task is a 60% of your total grade for this subject.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
- Outcome 1: understand responsible and ethical practices in public, corporate and private sustainable behaviour, taking into account the attitudes, needs and wants (objective and subjective) and physical constraints of all stakeholders
- Outcome 2: assess issues in sustainability by means of research, questioning facts and effects
- Outcome 3: develop a frame of personal values that reaches beyond the national state of laws and guidelines
- Outcome 6: conceive sound business solutions to situations involving sustainability.