Choose one of the scenarios below and assign each member of your group a stakeholder character. Once you have a stakeholder role, you must start a Twitter conversation among your group, as your character. Each character should tweet at least four tweets. Please tag all tweets with the hashtags listed under the scenario you choose.
Scenarios:
1. Poor farming practices in an upstream country enable sediment to flow down rivers to downstream country, where it clogs ports and harbors, crippling its transportation system.
Stakeholders:
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario1
2. Diamonds smuggled from one country to another are used to finance a revolutionary army in the second country. The first country is aware of the smuggling and capable of stopping it, but does nothing.
Stakeholders:
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario2
3. The harvest of wood in a high mountainous country results in rain flowing directly down the rivers to a lower country, which sustains heavy losses through persistent flooding.
Stakeholders:
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario3
4. One country relies heavily on coffee for its export income, and the adjacent country makes a big push to increase its own coffee production and exports.
Stakeholders:
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario4
Activity inspired by:
Schmitt, D., & Schmitt, N. (2011). Chapter 15: International conflict over natural resources. Focus on vocabulary 2: Mastering the academic word list (Pp. 141-149). Pearson Longman.
Scenarios:
1. Poor farming practices in an upstream country enable sediment to flow down rivers to downstream country, where it clogs ports and harbors, crippling its transportation system.
Stakeholders:
- Farmer in upstream country
- Government official in upstream country
- Citizen in downstream country
- Dock worker in downstream country
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario1
2. Diamonds smuggled from one country to another are used to finance a revolutionary army in the second country. The first country is aware of the smuggling and capable of stopping it, but does nothing.
Stakeholders:
- General of revolutionary army
- Customs official in first country
- General of second country’s army
- Diamond miner
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario2
3. The harvest of wood in a high mountainous country results in rain flowing directly down the rivers to a lower country, which sustains heavy losses through persistent flooding.
Stakeholders:
- Owner of logging company in mountainous country
- Citizen of mountainous country
- Farmer in lower country
- Citizen in lower country
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario3
4. One country relies heavily on coffee for its export income, and the adjacent country makes a big push to increase its own coffee production and exports.
Stakeholders:
- Coffee plantation worker in first country
- Coffee exporter in first country
- Government official in adjacent country
- Coffee importer in third country
Hashtags: #voc8useandabuseofnatrualresources , #scenario4
Activity inspired by:
Schmitt, D., & Schmitt, N. (2011). Chapter 15: International conflict over natural resources. Focus on vocabulary 2: Mastering the academic word list (Pp. 141-149). Pearson Longman.