SCO107 Discussion Board Assignment (Guide)

Week 1: Task (a) 10 marks

Only one issue. Does this current Southeast Asia is composed of eleven
issue affect the future needs of countries. Please make sure the
Singapore negatively? sustainability issue occurs in one of
these countries.

Identify ONE sustainability issue in a Southeast Asia country that affects Singapore.
Explain the challenges the issue poses and the responses by the country has thus far.

How does this sustainability issue create challenges that affect

Singapore?
So far, how has this country responded to its own sustainability
issue within its country and/or in Southeast Asia?

Week 2: Task (b) 20 marks

Choose another DB member’s Task (a) sustainability issue. Make sure the topic you
respond to in this task is different from your own topic in Task (a).

Southeast Asia as a group usually responds to this sustainability issue in Task (a).
Identify and briefly describe factors such as cultural, social, political and/or economic that
can affect their responses.

How do these four factors in Southeast Make sure you are clear with the definitions and
Asia as a group affect their responses on meanings of these four factors: cultural, social,
this sustainability issue? political and economic.

Week 3: Task (c) 20 marks

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 Choose another DB member’s Task (b) sustainability issue. Make sure the topic you
respond to in this task is different from your own topic in Task (a) or the issue you
responded to for Task (b).

In this task, you are required to use Singapore’s sustainability agenda and/or civil society
initiatives to illustrate how Singapore has responded to the issue identified. You should
also outline the 3-pillars of sustainability and/or the UN SDGs where Singapore’s plan and
civil society initiatives are aligned.

What are Singapore’s sustainability agenda and civil society initiatives?

Consider how the 3-pilars of sustainability and the UN SDGs have aligned with the
Singapore’s plan and civil society initiatives.

Apply these Singapore’s sustainability agenda and civil society initiatives to this issue that
you have chosen in Task (c). Show with some examples how accurate these Singapore
sustainability agenda and civil society initiatives have responded to this issue in Task (c).

Weeks 1- 3: Task (d) 50 marks

Comment on and appraise other DB members’ posts on tasks (a) to (c).

You MUST USE the concepts covered in this course to help you appraise the
conceptualisation of the issue or the proposed sustainability solutions (such as land ethics,
environmental stewardship, intergenerational justice, tragedy of the commons, climate
justice, and environmental justice) where appropriate.

Please do use the concepts learnt in SCO107 to raise your

questions, appraise the conceptualization of the issues or the
proposed sustainability solutions.