MASS Solved Assignment 2024

Master of Arts in Sustainability Science (MASS) Solved Assignments 2024

ASSIGNMENT NO.: MASS-1/PGDSS-2024 (TEE June 2024 and December 2024)

Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainability Science (PGDSS)

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Master of Arts in Sustainability Science (MASS)

Assignments (ASSIGNMENT NO.: MASS-1/PGDSS-2024)

MSD-011: Sustainability Science

Course Code: MSD-011

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Write an Essay on ‘materialism and the changing lifestyles as threats to Sustainability’.

2. What are the central elements of Sustainability Science? Discuss the future and scope of Sustainability Science.

3. Define watershed Management. Explain its major approaches.

4. What is Gross National Happiness Index? Briefly explain its core dimensions?

MSD-012: Ecosystem and Natural Resources

Course Code: MSD-012

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Explain the concept ‘Ecosystem Function’ with suitable examples.

2. What are the available soil types in your country? Explain.

3. Write an essay on the mineral resources, use and management in your country.

4. Discuss the major opportunities and challenges of promoting genetic diversity in your country with suitable examples.

MSD-013: Socio-cultural System

Course Code: MSD-013

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Define Political Ecology. Discuss any recent ecological movement in your country.

2. What is shifting Cultivation? Explain its salient features.

3. Explain the concept ‘eco-cosmology’ with suitable examples within your traditional belief systems.

4. Discuss the human rights and environmental protection relationship with suitable examples.

MSD-014: Ecological Economics

Course Code: MSD-014

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Explain the different stages of Demographic Transition Model.

2. Discuss ‘the market-globalization-environmental degradation linkages’ with suitable examples.

3. Define the term Fragile Ecosystem. Explain the livelihood system in any one of the fragile ecosystem in your country.

4. Explain the concept of Total Economic Values of Ecosystem Services.

MSD-015: Institution, Governance and Policies

Course Code: MSD-015

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Define Institutions. Explain the role of institutions in shaping the pattern of human interactions in the society.

2. What are the major barriers to Good Governance? Explain with suitable examples from your country.

3. Discuss the different features of Participatory governance with reference to your country.

4. Write an essay on the emergence of International Eco-politics.

MSD-016: Strategies and Models for Sustainability

Course Code: MSD-016

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Define Infrastructure. Explain its key characteristics with suitable examples.

2. Write an essay on three tier knowledge Network.

3. Critically analyses the pathways to evergreen revolution with special reference to your country.

4. What is Integrated Farming System? Discuss its significance in improving the livelihood in your region.

MSD-017: Challenges to Sustainable Development

Course Code: MSD-017

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Climate change is the biggest threat to sustainability. Elaborate this statement with special reference to your country.

2. Define energy crisis. Explain the available ecologically friendly alternatives to conventional energy sources in your country.

3. Write an essay on nutritional requirements and human life stages.

4. What is Biological Invasion? What are its ecological and economic impacts at local level.

MSD-019: Global Strategies to Sustainable Development

Course Code: MSD-019

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. Explain the major outcomes of Earth Summit.

2. What are the major indicators to check the global progress on Climate Action (SDG 13)? Explain any two with suitable examples.

3. Discuss progress of any two targets of SDG 6 (Clean water and Sanitation) and its indicators with reference to developing Countries.

4. Write an essay on the global progress in SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.

MSD-020: Population, Health and Sustainability

Course Code: MSD-020

Maximum Marks: 100

Note: This assignment is based on the entire course. Please answer in your own words; do not copy from the course material.

Answer all the questions. All questions carry 25 marks each.

1. What is Demographic Transition? Discuss its significance in the area of sustainability studies.

2. Highlight the concerns of marginalised and disadvantaged group in achieving global sustainability.

3. Define the term Nutrition Security. Explain the common indicators of nutritional status.

4. Discuss the major issues and challenges of major pandemics and epidemics in India countries with suitable examples.

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Last date for submitting the assignments for June Term End Examination is 30th March and for December Term End Examination is 30th September. 

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