Summative Assessment: Ethics Motivation Analysis

As you continue in your studies of environmental science, it is important to consider various stakeholders and their motivations and behaviors with respect to environmental initiatives. A strong understanding of the motivations of stakeholders will support your ability to impact positive environmental outcomes. In this assessment, use your understanding of anthropocentric and biocentric rationale to analyze how different lenses might impact a persons level of engagement in an environmental effort.

In SUS/300: Environmental Sustainability, you completed a stakeholder environmental motivation analysis. It may be helpful to reference that assessment as a starting point for updating this stakeholder motivation analysis. This analysis could serve as a deliverable to demonstrate to future employers your ability to understand factors that motivate stakeholders in projects.

Identify and research one (1) sustainability-related effort that interests you.

Use your reflection, which you created in the Wk 1 Summative Assessment: Meta-analysis Model Construction, to imagine how you, as a stakeholder, would engage in the sustainability effort you identified for this weeks assessment. Try to consider only the knowledge and experiences you had at Week 1.

Reflect on how your thoughts and ideas about environmental ethics have changed throughout this course. Discuss these changes and imagine how you, as a stakeholder, with all the knowledge and experiences you have gained throughout this course, would engage in the sustainability effort you identified.

Create a 1,050- to 1,225-word report (essay body content; title and references pages not included in word-count) in which you analyze the different motivations of the stakeholder to engage in your selected sustainability effort. Include the following in your analysis:

Use the following headings / subheadings and address all bullet points:

Suggestion / recommendation – Use a separate paragraph for each bullet.

• Sustainability Effort
• Describe the sustainability effort you selected.
• Explain your rationale for selecting that sustainability effort.
• Your View of Environmental Ethics
• Analyze your Week 1 selfs view of environmental ethics and how that would impact your ability and motivation to engage in the sustainability effort.
• Analyze your Week 5 selfs view of environmental ethics and how that would impact their ability and motivation to engage in the sustainability effort.
• Analyze how the changes in your view of environmental ethics over the five weeks would impact your ability and motivation to engage in sustainability efforts.
• Reflect on what changed or reinforced your previous views of environmental ethics
• Recommendations for Supporting Different Ethical Views
• Provide recommendations for what you, as an environmental scientist, can do to understand people with varied environmental ethical views.
• Provide recommendations for enhancing their ability and motivation to engage in the sustainability effort.
• Comparing Differing Rationales
• Compare anthropocentric and biocentric rationales.
• Evaluate how anthropocentric and biocentric rationale will impact human motivation to engage in sustainability efforts.

Use your personal works, as listed above, course textbook, and at least two (5) external resources.

Use headings and subheadings (see above) for essay organization.

Use APA formatting, including approved APA font style and size, essay body citations, double line spacing, and title and references pages.

Submit your assignment as a Word or pdf file.

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Note: Meet the required word-count to be eligible for an optimized grade.

Penalties / point deductions: Incomplete/erroneous/missing headings and content (bullet prompts), incorrect line spacing, missing citations, references, and title page.