Assignment 2
Three Case Study Analyses
Case Study 1 – Can India emerge as a front runner in fighting climate change?
Write up to 200 words per question. You can use dot points if you prefer.
Having read the case study I recommend you also read this very short piece to gain an insight about climate change and pollution in India and steps taken by the government to mitigate the risks – ‘Solar Powers India’s Clean Energy Revolution’: https:
www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2017/06/29/solar-powers-india-s-clean-energy-revolution
1. Give a
ief overview on climate change in India and its impacts based on the case facts.
Use dot points for your overview.
2. Identify and
iefly discuss the key causes of climate change in India based on the case facts. Use dot points for your overview.
3. Summarise the consequences of climate change in India based on the case facts. Use dot points for your overview.
4. Will India emerge as a front runner in the fight against climate change? You may provide views for and against. Use dot points for your overview.
Case Study 2 – Global Food Crisis: a silent tsunami of new demands?
Write up to 200 words per question. You can use dot points if you prefer.
1. “Analysts, experts, officials and politicians have pinned the blame on a plethora of factors for the cu
ent surge in food prices”. Identify the various factors (up to 9) that accounted for the food price inflation India based on the case facts. Use dot points for your overview.
2. “Bush is actually shifting the blame to hide the truth”. What is the truth that is alleged to have accounted for the global food crisis in this period based on the case facts?
3. Do you think bio-fuels contribute to food crisis? Give your arguments for or against as applicable. Based on the case facts, what are its two contrary pull effects on food prices?
4. “Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Food, has described this conversion of food crops into bio-fuel as a ‘crime against humanity’ and called for a five year moratorium on bio-fuel production”. Do you agree? How would you distinguish between bad bio-fuels and good bio-fuels?
5. “Food security is not only about trade – it is about producing enough to feed yourself. If trade were the answer to global hunger, we would know about it by now”. Explain why Michael Barnier, the French agriculture minister, does not approve of trade as an answer to food crisis.
6. “…some have paradoxically welcomed food price inflation as an instrumentality to
ing down poverty and starvation”. Do you agree with this view? Substantiate your view.
Case Study 3 – Cape Town Water Crisis: what lies ahead?
Write up to 300 words per question. You can use dot points if you prefer.
Having read the case study, I recommend you also watch this short video to gain an insight about the water crisis in Cape Town https:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtOxco9FwyQ
You may also be interested to gain an overview about the causes, effects and solutions related to water insecurity https:
www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-solutions-to-critical-problem-of-water-crisis.php
1. Outline the water related crises globally based on case facts.
2. What alternatives are available to the decision-makers? Consider the different viewpoints of the different political stakeholders based on case facts.
3. Based on case facts would Cape Town’s water crisis pose a threat to the city’s survival in future?