You are required to select one of the five ethics and sustainability issues provided below and submit your analysis electronically via the MySCU assignment submission function after you have submitted the assignment to Turnitin.
You must include the issue number in your document file name!
Your analysis must draw on relevant ethical and sustainability theories and concepts covered in this unit and apply these theories directly to the case study questions.
Present your analysis in the following format:
1. Title page
2. Separate headings for each of the four questions
3. Conclusions
4. References List
The five topics are:
1. Climate change
a. Link climate change to sustainability.
b. What are the main ethical issues relevant to climate change?
c. What are the critical implications of climate change for business?
d. What is an ethical and sustainable response to the climate change problem?
2. Poverty
a. Link global poverty to sustainability.
b. What are the main ethical issues concerning extreme poverty?
c. How can business help alleviate poverty?
d. What is an ethical and sustainable societal response to global poverty alleviation?
3. Population and immigration
a. Link population, immigration and sustainability.
b. What are the major ethical issues concerning national immigration and refugee policies?
c. What is the relevance of an aging workforce and immigration policies to business?
d. What is an ethical and sustainable global population and immigration policy?
4. Sustainable business
a. Describe the main sustainable business models.
b. What are the major ethical issues relevant to large corporations engaging in the global economy?
c. Providing examples critique the relevance of biomimicry to sustainability and business.
d. How would an ethical and sustainable business organisation differ from what we consider to be a conventional business today?
5. Biodiversity
a. Linkbiodiversityto sustainability.
b. What are the major ethical issues concerning the preservation of biodiversity globally?
c. How is biodiversity relevant to business?
d. How can global biodiversity be managed in both an ethical and sustainable way?