Population growth and environmental degradation in India
Your first task is to select an appropriate topic for research. Essentially what you are required to accomplish is to select some environmental issue and analyze the societal components involved with this issue. Remember the title of the course is Environment and Ethics. We are not going to be dogmatic about what is an environmental issue. However, if you choose some issue that lies outside of what might be considered a mainstream environmental concern, then it is also your task to convince us in your proposal and in your paper that your chosen topic is indeed an environmental issue. Often students get into difficulty by selecting a topic (say, air pollution) that is much too broad to be handled effectively within the scope of 12 to 15 pages. You can narrow such topics by focusing on some aspect of the problem (like regulating automobile emissions) or by limiting your topic to some specific geographical area (such as air pollution in the Grand Canyon.) It is equally important for you to identify the ethical issue which interfaces your environmental concern. Once you are satisfied with your identification of the two issues, you must emphasize the area(s) where the two impact each other.
Begin your analysis with a brief description of the environmental issue. Then carefully articulate the ethical issues you perceive. Then bring in the significant cultural, economic and political elements. In this first paper, be sure that you fairly represent the different positions. Avoid presenting a biased or one-sided paper. Sure, you are going to have an opinion, but the proper place to introduce your opinion is in your conclusion.
Here is some general advice on writing a good paper. Somewhere at the beginning of your paper, tell us what you are going to do. Provide a ?road map? of where you are going with this paper. When analyzing the various perspectives, try to tie these views to the environmental philosophies and traditions discussed in your readings.
This course is offered by the Geography department and is taught by a geographer. You will impress us by including a map that shows us the general distribution of the problem or the location of your study. However, do not just throw in any old map. It should be an integral part of your presentation. As long as it is within reason, we will allow you to count maps and tables in the page length requirement for this paper.
Your paper must include a bibliography. Your research must be based upon substantive references. For our purposes a substantive reference is one which contains a reference list and cites the sources of its information. Generally, newspapers and magazines do not cite their sources, so they are not considered substantive references. This does not mean that you cannot use newspapers and magazines. It means that you cannot rely upon them as a foundation for your paper. Be sure to cite the sources of statements and information used in your paper where you are not the original author. You may use web sources; however, you are restricted to a maximum of 25% of your bibliography entries from those sites.
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