Feedback on Exercise

When we first got assigned China as our country i thought we had a good chance to do well, the fact that the largest construction boom in world history is ongoing in China, they are a major consumer of resources and energy and their environmental record is one of the worst in the world.

Whilst researching for the exercise we did find it quite hard to find China's sustainable development strategies. I was surprised at the fact that china is the only country in the world where its rainforest's are increasing in size. I was also surprised that one of there main environmental problems is desertification. After thinking about it i then realised that China is still a developing country and a poor country, so their are not to focused on sustainable development at the moment, hence why they don't have to join the Kyoto yet.

Our presentation didn't really go to plan, the main reason was time. We ran out of time before we could even begin to finish our presentation. I didn't realise how quickly the time would go. Otherwise i thought i did OK, but i was rather scared and do not like doing presentations. I thought Cat did really well especially with the tough questions at the end. I would also say that we were not really prepared for the questions either which kind of took us by surprise.

I thought our handout was good, it had a wide range of sustainable development strategy's and important relevant facts about China. If we did this exercise again i would definitely limit the information as much as i could to fit it in the time constraint. I would not read out from my handout with my head down as easy as it is to do. I would have post it notes to spark my memories about topics and i would talk about them and engage more with the audience.

I'm going to be honest i dreaded this task from when it was set, i really don't like doing presentations and i am really bad at them, but the only way to improve is to do them so this did benefit me. I also did learn allot about China's sustainable development strategy's and other countries. I definitely learned allot about giving presentations and how to improve and research for presentations.