T319 Environmental Management Assignment

Learning Outcomes

TMA 01 will assess you on the following learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding

KU1. A range of systems theories, tools and methods.

Cognitive skills

C1. Use systemic theories and methods to review and investigate complex situations.

C2. Explain when and how to use systemic representations and where iteration is needed.

Key skills

K1. Learn and communicate effectively about complex situations.

K2. Use information and communication tools to gather, analyse and synthesise a variety of data and information.

Practical or professional skills

P1. Design a systemic enquiry.

P4. Use systemic theories and ideas to suggest ways in which issues, opportunities and problems might be acted on.

P5. Report on a situation, providing interpretations and recommendations emphasising the uses made of systems theories, ideas, tools and methods.

Question 1: Reflecting

Question 1) In Activity 1.9, you drew a rich picture to summarise your reflections on systemic and systematic environmental management.

For Question 1, you need to provide your original rich picture from Activity 1.9 and a reworked version, drawing on insights gained through sharing your initial rich picture and engaging with other students’ rich pictures. With specific reference to your reworked rich picture

Question 2: Connecting

A key aspect of a systemic approach to environmental management is an understanding that we draw ‘boundaries’ around what we include and exclude within our decision making. The values and experiences that you have reflected upon in Question 1 provide the foundations for how these boundaries are drawn. However, these boundaries come to the surface when you select and apply practical environmental auditing techniques for identifying a range of connections with a range of environmental issues.

Question 3: Modelling

In your answer to Question 1, you reflected on your values and experiences, while in your answer to Question 2 you evaluated how a range of environmental auditing techniques connect you to different aspects of the environment. Having explored your personal position and different ways of assessing a household’s environmental impact, you will now demonstrate how you have used modelling techniques for identifying a practical intervention.

Question 4: Doing And Reflecting

Having worked through the four phases of the action learning cycle in Block 1, Question 4 is your opportunity to briefly describe doing your proposed intervention, and to discuss the impact of this intervention within the context of how your values, skills, knowledge and experiences have evolved during your studies of Block 1.