Deck 1: Understanding Sustainable Development-part A

Question 1

Human induced climate change is referred to as being anthropomorphic

Answer 1

False
The accurate term is anthropogenic. Anthropomorphic refers to resembling human appearance or behaviour

Question 2

Which of the following are greenhouse gases?

A) oxygen
B) methane
C) carbon dioxide
D) argon

Answer 2

B ,C

Question 3

The Norweigian philosopher Arne Naess is closely associated with the following …

A) deep ecology
B) ecofeminism
C) ecocentricism
D) global warming

Answer 3

A,C

Question 4

Who of the following are bioregionalists?

A) Kirkpatrick Sale
B) Wendell Barry
C) Peter Berg
D) Lewis Mumford

Question 5

Which of the following are NGOs?

A) The World Bank
B) WWF-Int
C) Forum for the Future
D) Environmental Protection Agency

Question 6

Which of the following energy sources are non renewable?

A) wind
B) coal
C) wave
D) nuclear

Question 7

The Washington Consensus consists of which organizations?

A) United Nations
B) International Monetary Fund
C) European Union
D) World Bank

Question 8

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Question 9

To what extent is sustainable development a contradiction in terms?

Question 10

What makes sustainability science so different from more conventional approaches to science?

Question 11

Are globalization and localization compatible processess?

Question 12

Why is good governance so important to creating a sustainable future?

Question 13

What did the Montreal Protocol seek to control?

A) carbon dioxide
B) chlorofluorocarbons
C) human trafficking
D) uranium mining

Question 14

Where is Tuvalu?

A) India
B) Africa
C) South Pacific
D) Mexico

Question 15

Sustainability is the same as sustainable development

Question 16

James Lovelock opposes nuclear power

Question 17

E.F. Schumacher wrote Small is Beautiful

Question 18

The Hindi word 'chipko' means 'to chop' down a tree

Question 19

A major climate conference took place in Kyoto, Japan

Question 20

Monsanto has opposed the introduction of GMOs

Question 21

In what year was the first Rio Earth Summit held?

A) 1971
B) 1987
C) 1992
D) 2002

Question 22

Who wrote Silent Spring?

A) Borjn Lomborg
B) Vandana Siva
C) Bill McKibben
D) Rachel Carson

Question 23

Where is Clayquot Sound?

A) USA
B) Canada
C) Alaska
D) Greenland

Question 24

Who conceived the Gaia Theory?

A) Al Gore
B) Mahatma Ghandi
C) James Lovelock
D) Val Plumwood

Question 25

Who wrote 'vague, formless, often self-contradictory and predominantly missing the point'?

A) Murray Bookchin
B) Wendell Berry
C) Lewis Mumford
D) Holmes Rolston lll

Question 26

The IPCC is mainly concerned with …?

A) economic growth
B) climate change
C) conservation
D) local food production

Question 27

What is the value of staging large international conferences that seem to achieve very little?