Tag: Affected biodiversity

What paths have the country/region taken to become diverse? If none, why are they resisting diversity and inclusion? How do company leaders in your chosen country/region view diversity and inclusion?

Specifically, your research and analysis should include the following content areas:

How diverse is the country/region? What are facts and trends for the country/region?

How has the country/region become more diverse? What resistance was there for diversity and inclusion?

What paths have the country/region taken to become diverse? If none, why are they resisting diversity and inclusion? How do company leaders in your chosen country/region view diversity and inclusion?

What specific diversity and inclusion characteristics are found in your region/country?

What can the rest of the world learn from your country/region regarding diversity and inclusion (positive and negative)?

Describe the role of the consultant during the intervention. Categorize the competencies and ethical behaviors needed for the intervention.

For Section 1 of your paper, you will

Summarize the Action Research Case Study assignment in Week 3.
Justify why it is a problem and the type of problem.
Example: is it turnover, diversity, ethical, job satisfaction, downsizing, restructure, or other?

Define the selected action research process based on the Week 3 Action Research Case Study assignment paper.

Identify the intervention type selected in the Week 4 Intervention Selection and Application assignment.

Describe the intervention process.

Section 2

For Section 2 of your paper, you will

Describe the role of the consultant during the intervention.
Categorize the competencies and ethical behaviors needed for the intervention.

Define the recommended research methods that will be utilized during the intervention.

Describe recommended data collection and evaluation methods during the intervention.

Define a timeline for the intervention process.

Identify anticipated resistance to the change and the process for reconciliation.

 

What went well and what might be able to do to improve performance in the future?Did you change your mind as a result of the debate and, if so, why (or if not, why not)?

MUSIC AND MIND

Reflection on own performance
Include the following:

What was the overall gist of your argument?

To what extent did the other team counter this?

Did you change your mind as a result of the debate and, if so, why (or if not, why not)?

What have you learned since the debate and how has this affected your view?

What was the experience like for you?

What went well and what might be able to do to improve performance in the future?

Overall, how well do you feel you contributed to participation in discussions on other debates?

Elaborate, by writing about how you think the subsequent lifespans, whether for you, or for the person you care about, will most likely be affected due to this occurrence/event.

Reflective essay

1) choose a very meaningful occurrence/event that has happened within your life, or within the life of someone you care about;

2) elaborate, by writing about this occurrence/event (make sure you identify the lifespan associated with the occurrence/event);

3) elaborate, by writing about the impact of this occurrence/event, and the choices you, or the person you care about, have made in response to the occurrence/event;

4) elaborate, by writing about how you think the subsequent lifespans, whether for you, or for the person you care about, will most likely be affected due to this occurrence/event.

Describe the main relationships between location, sediment, land use and vegetation patterns today. What main changes have taken place in land use since 1948?

Biogeography report

Biogeography is the study of the spatial distribution of plants and animals and the reasons behind their occurrences. These questions can concern global to very local scales, over many different time scales.

One way to identify patterns in space and time at local scale is by using historical and contemporary maps.

Using historical maps makes it possible to trace land use changes and areas with a continuity of land use, thus making it possible to identify possible hot spots of biodiversity in a landscape based on ecological principles. Stable areas or areas with small-scale disturbances will have more species than areas with more and larger scale disturbances.

In the present landscape habitats such as semi-natural grasslands and deciduous forests have an exceptional high species richness compared to other areas in the landscape. A reason for this is that they were much larger areas in the past and have accumulated species over time.

During the last 200 years many forests and grasslands have been turned into crop-fields or planted with conifer forests.

Your task is to investigate the pattern between the sediment grain size (finer, coarse, mixed or bedrock) and vegetation and land use.

Do not worry about the specific names of the sediments in the legend, the focus is on how moist or dry the sediment is and whether one can plough the land.

You should identify the main relationships between land use (for example built-up areas, forest plantations, crop fields, semi-natural grasslands and forest), change over time and sediment type.

Explain the drivers of the land uses over time and changes you can identify in the landscape.

Below you will find five maps to help you: from 1868-77, 1948, and today, and a map of surface sediment types.

These are available from the bottom of the page as pdf files, and linked from the instructions as tifs. A pdf file with legends for all maps is also available at the bottom of the page.

Note that the maps do not include exactly the same classes, therefore you should describe the changes you observe in a broad sense.

The area within the red square is your area of interest

By August 13th, you should submit a maximum 1 page report addressing the following questions:

Look at the historical economical map (Valla_1868_77_zoomed).

Compare what’s in the red square with the sediment map and describe the main relationship between the grain size of the sediment (finer, coarse, mixed or bedrock, which affect the water holding capacity) and land use. How has sediment type affected land use in 1868 in the study area?

Open the map Valla_1948. Compare it with the maps from 1868-77. What has changed from 1868-1948? What has not changed much?

Open the map Valla_landuse_today and a contemporary aerial photograph.

Describe the main relationships between location, sediment, land use and vegetation patterns today. What main changes have taken place in land use since 1948?

What land uses are the same?

What places have been stable?

Conclusions: Explain the reasons why some of these changes have taken place and how it has affected biodiversity in different areas (short and simply).