Interconnectedness

CLR 1 – Explain the concept of environmental citizenship and provide examplesdemonstrating the roles and responsibilities of people within the global ecosystem.

CLR 2 – Relate the history of environmental trends to contemporary society and to future direction.

CLR 3 – Explain the relationships between poverty, education, health and environmental sustainability.

Objective of this Assignment: To research an environmental topic and discuss the interconnectedness of impacts related to this topic.     

TOPIC:  Poverty & Equality – focus on environmental aspects/interconnections/impacts

Instructions:

This assignment is an individual research assignment.

One of the key concepts in environmental citizenship is the idea that we are all interconnected in a single global system – connected to each other and to our surroundings (the air, water, land, plants and animals around us). When something occurs or changes in one part of the system, it has repercussions elsewhere in the system, either as a major precipitating incident or as a trickle-down type effect.

In this assignment,   asked to select a topic related to the environment about which you will do some research  a written report. General, and purposely broad, subject areas are listed in the discussion.

written report should identify 

topic and speak to the interconnectedness of impacts related to your topic. For example, if you choose clear- cutting a forest as  topic,  paper should summarize the activity of clear-cutting and identify the impacts that this activity has, for example, on the land, biodiversity, water, and human life of the surrounding area.