This document provides context and guidance for Part C of a project focusing on human-nature relationships and sustainability. Part C involves proposing an intervention to help a community move toward sustainability by addressing typical daily human-environment interactions. The document outlines what Parts A and B entailed, key considerations for developing the intervention such as impacts and supporting evidence, and tips for completing the task such as developing a template, attending lectures, and enacting changes now.

1. Context for Project Part C
Part Description Focus
Part A
Individual
Essay
You will research human-nature relationships and
sustainability. You will argue for a definition of sustainability
that speaks to your interests, values, and the context of your
argument
What is meant by sustainability?
How does our attitude to nature
affect outcomes for sustainability?
Part B
Team Report
You will work as a team to critically analyse the human-environment
relationships of a typical day in the life of a
diverse range of people to determine if sustainability is
facilitated or hindered.
What are the consequences of our
daily actions?
How do norms affect how we
satsify our needs?
Identify an area where an
intervention could occur.
Part C
Recommend-ation
You will consolidate your learning by drawing upon the theory
discussed in this subject, to propose an intervention by which
the human-environment relationships carried out in typical
daily activities can assist your community’s move towards
Design an intervention that will
help move towards sustainability.
Consider existing norms and how
norms may need to change for this
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2. Getting started
Read through the task
description:
•What are the key words?
•What sections are required to
be included?
•What connections are there to
the previous parts of the
project?

3. What are the key words?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?

4. What are the key words?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?
What is an intervention?
How is it different from an
action?

5. What are the key words?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?
What is an intervention?
How is it different from an
aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out?
How will you link in to this data?

6. What are the key words?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?
What is an intervention?
How is it different from an
aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out?
How will you link in to this data?
How will you discuss the role of norms?
What norms shape the human
environment relationship?

7. What are the key words?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?
What is an intervention?
How is it different from an
aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out?
How will you link in to this data?
How will you discuss the role of norms?
What norms shape the human
environment relationship?
What is a
typical daily
activity?

8. What are the key words?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?
What is an intervention?
How is it different from an
aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out?
How will you link in to this data?
How will you discuss the role of norms?
What norms shape the human
environment relationship?
What is a
typical daily
activity?
What is your
community?

9. What are the key words?
Where will you record your responses to these questions? When will you look at them again?
What is meant by build?
Is this repeating your work,
making reference to your work,
or something else?
What is an intervention?
How is it different from an
aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out?
How will you link in to this data?
How will you discuss the role of norms?
What norms shape the human
environment relationship?
What is a
typical daily
activity?
What is your
community?

10. Connections to Parts A & B
Part A

11. Connections to Parts A & B
Part A
Part B

12. Connections to Parts A & B
Part A
Part B
Make sure you make
clear these
connections.
These must all be cited
correctly, eg:
Wong, Baker and
Schmidt (2014)
identified excessive
water use amongst
college students as a
norm which currently
hinders sustainability.

13. Review the assessment guidelines
Read through each criterion
Make notes in each section in
your report template of things
you must include, or the quality
/ depth required
•What evidence is required?
•What system components
should you include?
For complexity and ethics
•How will you make it clear to
the assessor which 2 concepts
you are discussing?

14. Read the advice provided
Add relevant notes in each section in your report template

15. Developing your intervention
1. Identify several actions from
Part B that would be appropriate
for an intervention?

16. Developing your intervention
1. Identify several actions from
Part B that would be appropriate
for an intervention?
2. Think of a range of
interventions that could be
implemented to address the
existing issues
•Remember that some actions
involve multiple parts and that
you only need to cover one that
is either behavioural,
technological or policy!

17. Developing your intervention
1. Identify several actions from
Part B that would be appropriate
for an intervention?
2. Think of a range of
interventions that could be
implemented to address the
existing issues
•Remember that some actions
involve multiple parts and that
you only need to cover one that
is either behavioural,
technological or policy!
3. Evaluate your possible
interventions to find which one
has the most significant impact

18. Developing your intervention
1. Identify several actions from
Part B that would be appropriate
for an intervention?
2. Think of a range of
interventions that could be
implemented to address the
existing issues
•Remember that some actions
involve multiple parts and that
you only need to cover one that
is either behavioural,
technological or policy!
3. Evaluate your possible
interventions to find which one
has the most significant impact
4. Research your chosen
intervention to make sure that
there is evidence from the
academic literature to support
your claims.

19. Review template
If you have recorded your responses to
the previous questions, you should now
have a template for your report that
includes all of the required components
of the task.
Good to review your template now so
that you can see what is required and if
you have left anything out.
Think about how your choice of
intervention may affect your ability to
provide quality responses to each
section:
•Does it enable you to discuss ethics
and complexity?
•Is there evidence from the academic
literature that it will work?
•Can you easily relate it to norms?
•How does it link to your definition of
sustainability?

20. Things to consider
November is a long way away, but:
•don’t leave it too late to get started
•You won’t have access to your tutors
after the final week of tutes
Attending lectures and tutorials will help
with
•understanding complexity and ethics
•providing advice on how to complete
this task
Can you personally enact this
intervention today?
•if so, why not do this now?
•if not, what else from your day-to-day
actions can you change to help your
community move towards sustainability?
•The pelicans and other wildlife will be
grateful to you 
©Glenn Ehmke