CUC100 Assessment: Annotated Bibliography on Sustainability Issues

This annotated bibliography provides a detailed overview of several sources related to sustainability. It begins by emphasizing the importance of understanding the three pillars of sustainability: environment, economy, and social aspects. It highlights the role of stakeholder values and cultural perspectives in addressing sustainability challenges, referencing examples like the Australian bushfires and the significance of Traditional Knowledge. The bibliography also touches on the reading and summarization process, emphasizing the need to identify key ideas and avoid plagiarism. Furthermore, it addresses the importance of sustainability in the context of technological advancement and climate change, discussing the three pillars of sustainability (people, planet, and profit) and the challenges in achieving it. The final source discusses sustainability as a discipline, essential for long-term business and national interests, advocating for the use of technological tools and processes to achieve sustainability.

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Annotated Bibliography
Herremans, I. M., & Reid, R. E. (2002). Developing
awareness of the sustainability concept. The Journal
of Environmental Education, 34(1), 16-20.
To be able to shape students’ grasp
regarding sustainability issues, discussion on the
three pillars of environment, economy and social
aspects is imperative. Scenario interpretation
based on the three pillars ensures inference of
complete reasons endurance matters, the forces
behind harmony or the havoc in the
sustainability problem as well as the
fundamental values shaping the situation.
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Considering the stakeholders’ diverse principles
makes it easy to deal with the issue and deciding
on a win-win situation for all the partners.
Values refer to the vital things that determine an
individual’s priorities like situations, thoughts
and experience assessments. Describing
stakeholders’ viewpoints and morals that can
cause disagreements in sustainability issues and
their influence regarding concentrating on one of
the social, environmental and economic pillars
at the peril of the others and individualistic
goals. Three continuities representing diverse
morals and perspectives greatly decide on an
individual’s choice regarding the three pillars.
The Australians bushfire and the mitigation
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steps by its government is an instance of
choosing a pillar at the expense of the
other .This source is comprehensive in
explaining the concept on sustainability. I could
use it to study classroom sustainability aspects
as my scenario. I would pick a topic on
stakeholders as my main reference my case
scenario.
Brueckner, M., Durey, A., Mayes, R., & Pforr, C.
(2013). The mining boom and Western
Australia’s changing landscape: Towards
sustainability or business as usual?. Rural
Society, 22(2), 111-124.
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Just like principles and perspective,
individuals are likely to be bothered by issues
happening to them based on the localities and
timing. The community, family, environment,
and nation make up the space aspect of
sustainability advises on having a bigger range
of responsibility than attention to ensure
sustainability. Any society will be accompanied
by a particular partiality superiority based on
their encounters, information and lifestyles.
Culture can dictate a society’s perspectives. For
a beneficial training and communication, precise
planning is a requirement. Culture can present
essential native information commonly called
Traditional Knowledge (TK) that can add to
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sustainability solution. Sustainability drives
have come to realize the benefits of traditional
knowledge in its role hence coming up with
initiatives to take care of it. The origin of this
study is involving and relatively easy to
understand. I could use the source in writing my
end of term student behaviors since there it has
something to do with values.
Lawitz, E., Gane, E., Pearlman, B., Tam, E.,
Ghesquiere, W., Guyader, D., ... &
Ghalib, R. (2015). Efficacy and safety of
12 weeks versus 18 weeks of treatment
with grazoprevir (MK-5172) and elbasvir
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(MK-8742) with or without ribavirin for
hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection in
previously untreated patients with
cirrhosis and patients with the previous
null response with or without cirrhosis
(C-WORTHY): a randomised, open-
label phase 2 trial. The Lancet,
385(9973), 1075-1086.
Reading starts with a purpose
establishment step. Here an individual, spots the
sections with essential ideas and decides on how
to put those thoughts into usefulness. The title,
author, and date review is the next step in the
reading process to get a glimpse of the type of
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reading the immediate paragraph will add on the
title, author thoughts in the mind. To know the
sections that matter to read, one is advised to
read the headlines and topics. This is followed
by skimming and accentuating those headlines
on top of knowing the order of ideas. At this
point, the question of what to include in the
summary and what not to have been covered.
Relocation of the main ideas to a new locality is
what follows the selection of key thoughts and
ideas. The awaiting task now is putting down the
outline based on the strong ideas. A summary
should entail beginning with the broad coverage
of the reading while at the same time avoiding
plagiarism by only using the keywords in to
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kick-start an individual’s ideas then get a
response on your abridgment. With the primary
aim of enlightening one’s paragraph,
considering ambitious topics and main ideas that
can be pointed out by any reader. A clear
grouping of the drafted summary and rank them
structure will be finalized with making closing
adjustments prior to any placement.
Maintenance refers to the beginning of
entrant and strong world’s situation with a
chance for everyone. In this sustaining
environment, every living being, great systems
and the earth’s revolution discover their constant
and lasting stability as explained by .in addition,
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theory on well-organized systems and their
importance to our sustainability perception is
also explored. There is an introduction to the
three Es (environment, economics, and equity)
concept that rally behind secure, safe and
healthy societies. Sustainable growth has been
featuring strongly in the global plans for more
than 25 years. Although many people support
sustainability, they tend to incline on the social
and economic aspects hence overlooking the
very crucial pillar; the environmental aspect.
Human beings are at the forefront in
determining their condition, development,
welfare and the coming generations. This study
is scholarly since it borrows from other peer
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sources for citations used in the discussion. The
discussion is detailed enough to bring an aspect
in question and has a classic choice of words.
The source is resourceful because it is extensive
and in-depth. However, the sources are only
qualitative in their descriptions, which for a
study is not comprehensive. The inclusion of
statistical models and tools like graphs or charts
to explain sustainability over the decades could
have been better.
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Robertson, M. (2014). Sustainability
principles and practice (pp. 3-9). London:
Routledge.
This article aims to discuss the factor of
sustainability in this modern era of technology
and climate change. This article has discussed
the stainability as the factor that can be seen and
recognized. All the layers of the earth including
lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere are facing
problems due to changes in the various aspect of
nature. This is the reason why the importance of
sustainability has been understood and explained
now a days. To this paper, sustainability is about
becoming resourced with the fact associated
with it and get involved with the process of
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sustainability in the process of living securely
and changing world to determine what is the
most needed to be done. This particular article
discusses the definition of sustainability in
detail. The article has analyzed the definition of
sustainability from the aspects of every
community but the essence of the word remains
the same that is to save the world from
deterioration. There have been different
strategies to gain sustainability in using the
natural resources. This paper has pointed out the
systems to be fundamental of sustainability. In
this system of this earth, there re some other
systems which are interrelated among one
another. They are linked with ecosystem directly
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