Enhance understanding of XJTLU’s green campus initiatives in China and the potential transferability of strategy and good practice between the two Universities;

Critically analyse the Planning Student’s reports for the ‘Green Space Task Group.
The Planning Student’s have been provided with the brief below and have produced their report in the first semester of this academic year.
“The University of Liverpool ‘Green Space Task Group’ (reporting to the Sustainability Policy Board) is commissioning a research report on the creation of a ‘greener campus’ through green space enhancement to support the environmentally sustainable development of the University Estates’ Strategy. The Task Group is looking to access student engagement and opinion, along with your interdisciplinary and intercultural expertise, to develop recommendations concerning:
1. The principles of green space design for retrofitting existing space and for future campus developments;
2. Integration of green space multi-functionality (e.g. biodiversity, water management, health, leisure, transport, landscape) with wider policy drivers and strategic objectives (including the City of Liverpool’s Mayor Commission on Environmental Sustainability, Local and National level planning policy);
3. Proposed improvements to current estate’s strategy and design detail on prioritised green space proposals based on an analysis of relevant, good practice;
4. An enhanced understanding of XJTLU’s green campus initiatives in China and the potential transferability of strategy and good practice between the two Universities;
5. A process through which the wider internationalised University campus community can be consulted with to inform green space initiatives on campus.”
It is now the turn of the management school students to provide input from a managerial perspective on the ‘Green Space’ initiatives proposed. Bringing together all of the knowledge you have developed over the course of the workshops, utilising the evidence collected for these and further evidence collected by yourself, critically examine the Planning Student reports. Remember to utilise the analytic techniques that you have been introduced to over the course of the module (though we are interested in the output from these techniques, not how you utilised them). This is a very typical work activity in a management setting where technical specialists provide a set of recommendations based upon their specialism and then a management team will need to look at the feasibility and implementation of the recommendations.
No more than 2500 words. This will require you to demonstrate the succinct (compact) writing skills that are required in writing executive summaries in industry. The report should have page numbers inserted. The fairly small word-count means that you should cut out all the waffle (waste) and deliver carefully crafted words (value). This is a skill you must learn for business as well as academia. You have been shown how to search the academic literature and support is available from the Library.
The kinds of learning demonstrated here is your ability to collect relevant information, organise and evaluate that information, and synthesise an understanding from all available evidence. Your ability to demonstrate the relative merits of different sources of data will be critical here, not all data is equal, or equally valid.

please briefly define sustainability first.

related reference:http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/238.abstract