Consider a community that you are familiar with. What issues Refer to the sample topics page to help choose an issue, if you need some guidance. You will be providing context/background for the topic as well as evaluating strategies, models, programs, or initiatives associated with it. Do these strategies or programs work? Examine the challenges and successes. Develop an argument for “best practices or solutions”. the issue can be related to these –
Suggested Paper Ideas:
Cosmopolis: local cultures, globalization, diaspora
Cultural, heritage (or traditional) preservation
Architectural erasure & preservation of communities, landscape, communities
The meaning of cultural sustainability and sustainable heritage development
Belonging and identity: their environmental, economic, and social significance
Changing patterns and cultures of consumption
Women and men, children and the elderly, families and sustainability
Cultural dimensions of childbearing and population growth
Cultural tourism & impacts to local economy
Indigenous peoples: self-government, self-management, and cultural autonomy
Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices of sustainability: broadening the scope of valid knowledge
Equity, Diversity, & Social Justice
Gender and sustainability
Poverty and its eradication
Health in its environmental, cultural, economic, and social contexts (social determinants of health)
Prison System & Recidivism
Environmental preservation -land, culture, identity
Urbanization and the sustainability of human settlement & gentrification
Self -determination & cooperative economics
