Creating sustainable futures/CSF102/Impacts assessment/E-activity2

Take your baseline impact assessment (completed in the previous section, where the fishing industry example was used). Note the significance of the impacts you have identified using larger text,or bold or using colour to highlight.

In the example below, the significant of the impacts identified are highlighted using bold.

Example for an ocean fishing business

(High level snapshot only)

• Principle #1: Materials remain in the earths crust
  • Degenerating: Burning of fossil fuels to power boats (always), steel extraction (always), heavy metals used (always)
  • Regenerating: Recycling steel for reuse at end of life, bio fuel being used (rarely)
• Principle #2: Use chemicals nature can process
  • Degenerating: Nylon net and lines, Paint (always)
  • Regenerating: Lines that dissolve after use are used (rarely)
• Principle #3: Living Systems are not broken
  • Degenerating: Diminishing fish population (rarely), by catch of fish species and birds, marine mammals
  • Regenerating: Fishing occurs only in a measured abundant fish population (rarely)
• Principle #4: People are not subject to structural obstacles to health
  • Degenerating: Marketing mistruths are told as to the health value of fish products (very often)
  • Regenerating: Valid information is used to tell the story of the health value of fish products (rarely)
• Principle #5: People are not subject to structural obstacles to influence
  • Degenerating: Governments legislate to protect commercial fishing interests using false data of a fisheries health (often)
  • Regenerating: Communities have a say in how commercial fishing quota is managed (very often)
• Principle #6: People are not subject to structural obstacles to competence
  • Degenerating: Limited sharing of knowledge of product being sold using practices that harm or benefit nature (always)
  • Regenerating: Full detail of product and practices harm or benefit nature (rarely)
• Principle #7: People are not subject to structural obstacles to impartiality
  • Degenerating: An uneducated population does not question industry practice (most often)
  • Regenerating: Fishing organisations actively educate about industry practice (rarely)
• Principle #8: People are not subject to structural obstacles to meaning making
  • Degenerating: Knowledge of the oceans is not valued and is scarce.(very often)
  • Regenerating: Knowledge of the oceans is valued and abundant. (sometimes)