Reference no: EM133507584
Purpose and aims:
This assessment is designed to apply the knowledge and skills we have developed in evaluating the role of systems thinking in global and local sustainability challenges.
Case Study: Women's Employment and Covid-19: Wicked Problem?
Read, understand and refer to the Assessment Reading : "How Women are being Left Behind in the Quest for Descent Work"(Karkee & Sodergren, 2021) Available in Assessment: Assessment 2 Resources.
Questions: In your Case Analysis, number your responses according to the following questions:
+Why is the case topic a sustainability issue, and why is it important?
- Include definition (Moscardo) , Interpret the definition, show relevance
-Narrow the scope, choose a case: a particular country, a particular sector
-Find points in your case that relate to the three pillars of sustainability
- Relationship by causing something to happen
-Relationship by meeting criteria
-Relationship by providing a condition
-Remember the interaction of the seven forms of capital? If human capital is lost, that will affect financial capital
- Describe how this interaction works for your case study
+Why is your case topic a wicked problem? Explain using the characteristics of a wicked problem.
- Provide statistical evidence
-Show why stakeholders care
-Show conflicts
+ Why have we been unable to solve this issue?
+Using the Iceberg Model and systems thinking, address the wickedness of the problem.
- Analyse the problem using four step of the iceberg model. (the question is not asking for analysis of iceberg)
-what can we see above the waterline?
-What causes lie beneath the surface?