How to structure your answer
The marking criteria provided with each question provides guidance on information to be included in your response. You are welcome to use tables and diagrams to support your answer where appropriate. The words contained within them will be part of the total permitted word count
Word count
The word-count is provided for each question. If you exceed the word-count then you will have marks deducted. Assessments are designed to enable delegates to achieve excellent marks without writing to the limit. There is consequently no specific penalty for work that is under-length. Under-length work is dealt with by the normal provisions of the marking scheme.
? Excess Length Mark deduction up to and including 20% 5 percentage points
? More than 20% up to and including 30% 10 percentage points
? More than 30% The work will be assigned a grade of 0.
You should declare the word-count for each section of your answer.
Text within tables forms part of the word-count, text in a list of references is not included in the overall word-count.
References
You should clearly reference any sources (including websites) you use in preparation of your answer. An appropriate system for doing this includes the Harvard system. https://www.citethisforme.com/harvard-referencing
Referencing does not form part of the word-count for each question.
LO in the document refers to the Learning Outcome from the IEMA Practitioner Standard these can be viewed at file:///C:/Users/e.brown/Downloads/IEMA-Practitioner- Membership-Standard-June-2016.pdf
Fundamentals of Sustainability, Business and Governance
Module 1 -(LO1) ;
Answer the following questions about the role of global trends in relation to sustainable development and the five capitals.
i. Explain how global trends in consumption have affected sustainable development giving examples.
ii) Zam Zam is an international drinks company and is looking to build a new bottling plant in a rural area of Bihar State in Northern India.
Drinks companies have historically been implicated in negatively affecting water availability in dry, agricultural areas in India (such as Bihar) with the result being depleted ground water reserves, poor community relationships and bad publicity.
Zam Zam are keen for the new project to use innovative water reduction techniques, to engage fully with the local community in the development of the new plant and to ensure that the plant fully operates on locally produced renewable energy.
Discuss how this project could contribute to the five sustainability capitals (natural, social, human, financial and manufactured/built).
Within your answer you should clearly state:
How the project could address each of the five sustainability capitals
The benefits both to Zam Zam and to the local community of addressing
each of the five sustainability capitals
Answers should be a maximum of 2,000 words (1,000 words for each section above).
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