Green Management: Sustainable Product Life Cycle, Environmental Management Systems And Regulations
Part A (60 marks)
Imagine you are a junior consultant working in an environmental consultant company.
Your team just accepted a job from a private company to investigate the possibility of
extending the Sham Wan Mariculture Zone so that the area for fish culturing can be
doubled. It is expected that (Environmental Impact Assessment) EIA is required. Your
boss asked you to prepare a 1000 to 2000-word report to the client for explaining the
plan (including your suggestion on the location of extension) and potential impact. You
are suggested to include (but not limited to) the following in your report:
- A brief introduction
- At least 2 visual aids to help explaining the plan
- Sensitive receivers close to the site
- At least 5 potential impacts to the surrounding environment
- The corresponding mitigation measures
- Environmental Monitoring and Audit (EM&A) concerns
- Legislative concerns
The map below shows the location of Sham Wan Mariculture Zone.
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Part B (40 marks)
Because of the Covid-19 outbreak, there are worries about the food supply chain could
be affected. A group of businessmen consider this as an opportunity to reactivate the
local primary production again. Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) is the target
method for producing fish.
As environmental performance of the business would affect long term revenue. You are
hired by this business group and prepare a report to illustrate with examples how
environmental management system (EMS) can be applied and contribute to their
business. You are required to write a 1000-words report to advise those businessmen to
adopt an environmental management approach for their new business. You are
suggested to include (but not limited to) the following in your report:
- A brief introduction of RAS, including the species you suggested
- Establishing an EMS that applicable to RAS and explaining the benefits of
adopting EMS - Plot a graph to illustrate different stages and processes involved in RAS
production and suggest 5 areas with potential impacts to be included in this
report - Any potential legislative concerns
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ENVR S341 Green Management: Sustainable Product Life Cycle,
Environmental Management Systems And Regulations
Grading Rubric for Take-home Assignment (*For reference only)
Criteria Exceeds standard Meets standard Fails to meet
standard
Address the topic and
follow instructions
20%
Addresses the entire
topic completely and
thoroughly, without
excessive
information and
follow all
instructions.
Addresses most of
the topic with limited
excessive
information and
follow all
instructions.
Fails to address the
topic with a lot of
excessive
information and fails
to follow
instructions.
Understanding
context in text
40%
Demonstrates a
thorough
understanding of
context. Includes in
full depth of analysis
or details of the
subject matter and
organizes the
material in a
thoughtful and
effective manner.
Demonstrates
understanding of
context. Includes
some depth of
analysis or details of
the subject matter
and organizes the
material but ideas
could be
communicated more
fully and effectively.
Fails to demonstrate
understanding of
context. Fails to
include adequate
depth of subject
matter or organize
material.
Use of visual aid
20%
Relevant and
Excellent handdrawing of visual
aid(s) that help
greatly to show
understanding of
context.
Relevant handdrawing of visual
aid(s) that help show
understanding of
context.
No or irrelevant
visual aid(s) that
cannot help showing
understanding of
context.
Uses language
effectively
10%
Uses language that
effectively conveys
the message and
contains a few errors.
Uses simple
language which may
contain some errors.
Fail to use clear
language.
Reference
10%
In text citation and
reference list
included with a few
errors
In text citation and
reference list
included with some
errors
No Reference
included
[End of take-home assignment paper]
