Environmental sustainability assignment

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 should select a minimum of two and a maximum of three 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 / similar to an answer given by another student will lead to a down-grade of the answer in question. REQUIREMENTS Formalities: • Wordcount: 800 – 1,000 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

Undergraduate Program
Assessment Brief
Academic Year 2019-2020

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BCO118 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

FINAL ASSIGNMENT FALL 2020

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

Task Scenario for 2050

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 should select a minimum of two and a maximum of three 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 / similar to an answer given by another student will lead to a down-grade of the answer in question.

REQUIREMENTS

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 800 – 1,000 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

Undergraduate Program
Assessment Brief
Academic Year 2019-2020

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Submission: Sunday 29th November at 23:55 – Via Moodle (Turnitin).

Weight: This task counts for 60% of your total grade for this subject.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The work must be on one single Word x document and must be uploaded to the appropriate Turnitin folder on Moodle.

The title page of the 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 (Final Assignment – Exploratory Scenario 2050)

Undergraduate Program
Assessment Brief
Academic Year 2019-2020

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ASSIGNMENT RUBRICS

Exceptional

90-100

Good

80-89

Fair

70-79

Fail

<70

Knowledge &
understanding

(35%)

Student demonstrates a systematic
and thorough understanding of the
theory delivered in class, applying
relevant knowledge to the question

Student demonstrates good
understanding of the theory
delivered in class, applying some
relevant knowledge to the question.
Some minor details might be missing

Student demonstrates some
understanding of the theory
delivered in class, applying some
knowledge to the question. Key
details might be missing and there
might be some irrelevance.

Student demonstrates an insufficient
understanding of the theory delivered
in class. Key knowledge is not applied
to the question and information is of
little or no relevance

Critical
Evaluation (35%)

Student critically engages with
theory and its application,
considering alternative
perspectives/ possibilities with
authority.

Makes excellent judgements in the
absence of complete data

Student makes a good attempt at
critically engaging with theory and its
application, considering alternative
perspectives/ possibilities.

Makes good judgements in the
absence of complete data

Student makes some attempt at
critically engaging with theory
and/or its application.

Makes some judgements in the
absence of complete data

Student makes no attempt to
critically engage with theory or
application.

Fails to make judgements in the
absence of complete data

Communication
(20%)

Student communicates their ideas
extremely clearly and concisely,
making excellent use of visuals to
support their message.

Student communicates their ideas
clearly and concisely, making good
use of visuals to support their
message.

Student communicates their ideas
with some clarity and concision.
Visuals are used to support their
message successfully at times.

Student fails to communicate their
ideas clearly and concisely. Visuals are
poor and do not support the
message.

Synthesis (10%) Student synthesizes the content of
their presentation with exceptional
clarity and concision

Student synthesizes the content of
their presentation with some clarity
and concision

Student synthesizes the content of
their presentation, although work
lacks clarity and/or concision

Student makes an insufficient
attempt to synthesize, with a lack of
clarity and concision.