For this assessment you will be given an academic journal paper to critically review.
The paper is:
Sustainable development: Our Common Future revisited
Holden E., Linnerud K., Banister D. (2014) Global Environmental Change, 26(1), pp. 130-139. This task is an opportunity for you to demonstrate critical thinking, and to make connections between the literature you are reading. Here are a list of questions you can consider in your review:
• What is the problem being addressed in this paper?
• What are the strengths and limitations of the study?
• How does the author approach the study – from a theoretical, experimental, interpretive standpoint? Did they choose the best approach?
• How does the author engage with other literature in the field? Is there literature that both contradicts and supports his/her findings mentioned?
• Did the researchers choose appropriate methods of experimentation and data analysis for the research question?
• Do you think that the conclusions they draw based upon the data they present are valid and reasonable? Or are there gaps in the logic or assumptions being made?