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Conservation Ethics and Law Assignment Questions -

1. What is 'the environment'? Is it 'nature' or 'resource'?

2. What do you think 'a place that humans live' should look like? Why do you think that way?

3. How important do you think biodiversity is, especially in the human habitat, be it urban, suburban, or rural, and why?

4. What should be the balance between spaces for nature, and spaces for humans, and whether, a line should be demarcated to set the boundary between nature and human? Why do you think so?

5. In what ways would the current international legal regime governing the environment, especially the principles and concepts of law developed under the regime of international environmental law be important in promoting the conservation of biodiversity, and of nature, at the local level?

6. Would 'nature' be considered to be "in a filthy and unwholesome state or overgrown with rank or noisome vegetation" if it is left to grow as nature wants it to grow?

Please provide sufficient explanation and justification, with reference to established literature on the subject matter to support your opinion and argument. If necessary, students are encouraged to use illustrations, diagrams, pictures and other means to support and elaborate their assertions.

Group Presentation - The Presentation should consist of these components:

a. A title. Students should give the assignment a title that suits the direction in which this assignment is/planned to be explored;

b. An analysis and the interpretation of the issues raised in the assignment;

c. An explanation of how these questions would be answered (the methodology developed for this assignment);

d. Literature Review and progress report; and

e. References.

Individual Written Assignment -

1. The front page of the assignment shall clearly state the code and name of the course, the name of the student, his or her matriculation number and the word count of the written assignment.

2. The length of the assignment must be between 2,500 to 5,000 words.

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar