Nine Key Sections for a Comprehensive Sustainability Assessment Report

Issue

Your written sustainability assessment report will include the following nine sections:

1. Issue: Describe the activity that you do (or participate in) that your sustainability assessment will address and briefly why it is currently unsustainable.

2. Desired outcomes: To be truly sustainable, the activity must be (1) ecologically sound, (2)economically feasible, and (3) socially equitable. Comment on why the activity does/does not satisfy each of these outcomes. Ensure to support your ideas with relevant evidence from high quality sources.

3. Alternatives: Briefly describe three alternatives to achieve the same objective.

4. Decision-making protocol: In a table format, develop a protocol that will provide a basis for selecting among alternatives. For each of the outcomes mentioned above, the protocol should include your (1)

decision-making criteria, (2) acceptability criteria and, (3) targets.

5. Evaluation of alternatives: Explain the pros and cons of each of your alternatives, provide quantitativeestimates for the alternatives and ensure to support your ideas with references from high quality sources.

6. Preferred alternative: identify the best alternative and justify your selection.

7. Mitigation and management: In a series of bulleted points, explain what measures should be taken to achieve the maximum sustainable outcome.

8. Conclusions: What are your recommendations? Explain how your approach supports sustainable principles that provide ecological, economic, and social gains.