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Our
Common Future & Pressing Environmental Problems
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Directions:
- Write a paper
on an overview of a selected environmental problem based on a chapter
of your choice from Part II of Our Common
Future. Alternately, if Our
Common Future is not in print or available,
the write a paper on one of the Chapters of Agenda
21 (from Chapter 3 onward) and support the arguments or positions
stated in the selected chapters with examples drawn from the web.
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Both state or summarize
the problem and give your reaction to it.
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You may, of course,
use additional sources of information. Do you agree it is a problem? If
so, how can we develop policy to move toward solutions. Make a case.
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Paper must be typed
(double-spaced), 3-4 pages in length.
- Send this assignment as
an attachment to the Web Board.
Books:
Our Common Future
by The World Commission on Environment and Development, Gro Brundtland,
Chair, 1987
Recommend:
Elements of Style, William Strunk and
E.B. White, Macmillan, N.Y., 1979
Grading: See
scoring Rubric for Short Papers
Due: Session 5
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