Courses / Environment and sustainability / Evaluate resource choices over time / Build a resource decision brief with a stress case Build and defend your work Build a resource decision brief with a stress case Choose an energy, water, transport or land-use decision. Compare alternatives on an explicit service and time basis, account for resources or impact, and test an adverse scenario. Use captures from at least two experiments. All supplied rates and indices are synthetic; a real recommendation needs appropriate local evidence.
Choose an audience, investigate alternatives, copy evidence from your experiments, and produce an artifact. You can open this project at any time. Reports, numerical transfer checks and human review are separate outcomes.
Your project workspace Choose the kind of work you want to produce School investigation College investigation Workplace application Prepare a school-trip or resource-use proposal with two alternatives, a labeled stock/flow diagram and a difficult scenario. Explain at least one reason why a lower per-use number may not reduce the total.
1. Collect and compare evidence Required experiment sources:
Include every source above and at least one pair with different inputs from the same experiment. Explain confounding changes yourself; the presence check does not judge your interpretation.
Open an experiment and change an input or capture a trial to make evidence available here.
2. Write and revise your report Service and comparison boundary State what must be delivered, for whom, over what horizon. Specify included and excluded energy, water, lifecycle or transport activities.
Stock, flow and unit accounting Trace one case from inputs to use, storage, losses, remaining stock or unmet demand. Keep units explicit and check that the resource balance closes.
Alternative interventions Compare at least two captured settings with equal service assumptions, or explicitly explain a changed service level. Include upfront effects or timing where relevant.
Constraints and affected groups Identify a binding limit, competing objective or access concern. Do not silently convert invented index points into money or ecological value.
Stress case and evidence needed Test lower recharge, higher use, lower occupancy or a delay. Give a conditional recommendation and identify measurements and independent review needed for real-world use.
Your artifact: code, analysis, prototype or decision brief This field stores up to 12,000 characters of inert text. Code runs only through the explicit bounded editor in the relevant lessons; project attachments never execute.
Load a text artifact Review your work against the rubric Alternatives state the same service and horizon or disclose their difference. At least one resource or impact balance is correctly traced. The recommendation addresses timing or upfront effects, not only totals. A constraint and a competing objective are explicit. Synthetic results are not presented as empirical forecasts or verified environmental benefits. 13 evidence requirements remain Capture evidence from energy timing and storage. Capture evidence from reservoir and seasonality. Capture evidence from pollution stock and delay. Capture evidence from transport and occupancy. Capture evidence from lifecycle and rebound. Capture evidence from land water tradeoffs. Include two different input configurations from the same experiment to compare. Write your service and comparison boundary. Write your stock, flow and unit accounting. Write your alternative interventions. Write your constraints and affected groups. Write your stress case and evidence needed. Add your project artifact: code, analysis, prototype or decision brief. Record my report Download report and evidence Editing the report or evidence returns it to draft. Recording verifies field presence and input comparisons, not correctness of your reasoning or code.
3. Check transfer to unfamiliar cases These authored cases use different numbers or conditions from the lesson practice. They are public local checks, not secure certification. Each case permits three submissions. Opening, first responses and attempt counts survive imports; no reset creates fresh evidence.
Case environment-project-storage Open case environment-project-storage Case environment-project-lifecycle Open case environment-project-lifecycle Case environment-project-stock Open case environment-project-stock
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