GEOP8060 Environmental Impact Assessment - Report On Indigenous understandings of environmental health and well-being

Assignment 3: Report 2

For this report you will select and focus on a resource development case study which is embedded in an environmental governance and planning process. You will need to critically analyse the case study and discuss the ways Indigenous understandings of environmental health and well-being have, or haven’t, been understood, valued and mobilised. Drawing on the unit framework of ways of seeing and thinking, you need to use the evidence you have gathered for your case study to make a compelling case for how Indigenous understandings of environmental health and well-being should be recognised and valued in environmental governance and planning systems.

Your resource development case study must be different to the one you selected for Report 1. It can be based in Australia or another country. It can be a current or older case study but make sure you can access quality academic literature regarding it as you must draw on good quality academic literature and documentary evidence throughout your report to support your argument.

Your report must include the following (remember all of the following is included in your word count):

• A heading which clearly indicates which case study you are focusing on.
• A table of contents.
• An executive summary.
• A well-structured report body including:

• A description of your case study and the environmental governance and planning process it is embedded within.
• A critical analysis of the case study discussing the ways Indigenous understandings of environmental health and well-being have, or haven’t, been understood, valued and mobilised.
• A compelling case for how Indigenous understandings of environmental health and well-being should be recognised and valued in environmental governance and planning systems. This case needs to be convincing and backed up with strong evidence.

• A clear and strong conclusion.
• A list of references (including at least 10 strong academic references, remember to draw on the references we have given you in workshops and also see additional readings on Leganto).