Description
Your Assignment 2 is the Course Paper Proposal that contributes 10% of your final grade in this course.
You will need to select a watershed that you are familiar with or have some reason to want to investigate. Identify a water related issue such as water quality, water supply, different land uses that cause problems for the water resources in the watershed, ecological concerns (aquatic habitat loss, invasive aquatic species, accumulation of toxic materials in the food chain etc.). Then, identify a legislative, regulatory, or management document that deals or should deal with the issue you have selected. You must also provide a point form outline (table of contents) for your paper and provide five references that you have read in developing the proposal and will use in the development of the course paper.
Some tips for the proposal: You are expected to clearly identify the watershed, the water related issue and the management document/legislation and regulations that you have selected. In 2 paragraphs, describe them and how they respond to the issue. Explain how you will evaluate the planning legislative or regulatory process in solving the issue in the watershed you have selected. For the full course paper you must embed your evaluation in relevant theory, research findings and personal reflections so it is good to outline these in your proposal as well.
*Grading Your Proposal
Your proposal will be graded based on:
The appropriateness of your identification of the issue and the management document that you have chosen as responding to the issue.
The clarity of your description of the watershed and the issue:
The logical linkages of your point form outline (table of contents)
The appropriateness of the sources that you have identified for your paper.
