- Considering the planetary boundaries and sustainable development goals, and thinking back to your City Observations practical #1, identify 3 global sustainability issues that you may like to explore for your class project. List them, give 1 sentence to describe each. Identify a social, environmental or equity factor for each of these global sustainability issues that make them a challenge to address.
- Choose one of the 3 global sustainability issues listed above to propose for study in your class project. Name it.
- Using database resources, identify and read 4 peer-reviewed articles (1-2 sources may be government reports that reference science articles) that describe the global sustainability issue you chose in #2. Websites are not appropriate sources. Provide the following information for each article/report.
Title of the article/report.
Screenshot or other electronic format showing first page of article.
2-3 sentence summary of the article (do not copy from the abstract or text – use your own words)
Why is this issue significant at the local scale (e.g., city, city-region or region)? Be specific. - Provide a figure or table that describes the magnitude of the global sustainability issue. For example, if you chose biosphere integrity for your global sustainability issue, you might choose a figure from one of your articles that shows species or habitat loss over the last 50 years.
- Using the city sustainability and resilience plan you reviewed (see attachment), one of the other city plans available in CANVAS, or another plan of your choosing, and referencing information from articles or reports from #3 to provide scientific rationale,
name 2 strategies or actions identified in the plan and how they can help to reverse the cause of the global sustainability issue at the local level
name 2 strategies or actions identified in the plan and how they can help to reduce the impact of the global sustainability issue at the local level.
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