Environmental Issues and Solutions
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Course Introduction
This course explores the major environmental challenges facing the world today, including climate change, air and water pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion. Students will examine the scientific, economic, and social foundations of these issues and analyze the effectiveness of current strategies and policies aimed at mitigating environmental problems. Through case studies and discussions, the course emphasizes innovative and sustainable solutions, encouraging critical thinking and problem-solving skills for addressing environmental concerns at local, national, and global levels.
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Environment and Society 5th Edition by Charles L. Harper
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Chapter 1: Environment, human Systems, and Social Science
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Q1) _________ implies that the economy is a closed system with pendulum like movement between production and consumption.
A)Classical economics
B)Neoclassical economics
C)Ecological economics
D)Postmodern economics
Answer: B
Q2) Emissions trading schemes have not had much impact on producers of pollution in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Neoclassical economists see human-environment problems in terms of market failures and resource allocation problems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Humans and the Resources of the Earth:
Sources and Sinks
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Q1) Which of the following is true of chemical pollution?
A)DDT is currently used on most American croplands.
B)Organophosphates are not as toxic as previously-used herbicides.
C)The World Health Organization estimates that 20,000 agricultural workers die each year from pesticide exposure.
D)None of the above are true.
Answer: C
Q2) Human beings need about 50 liters of water per day for drinking,cooking,and washing.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) The U.S.is one of a few nations to make soil conservation a national priority. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Human wastes and effluents go into sinks.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Climate Change, science, and Risk
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Q1) Scientific uncertainty sometimes makes it difficult to understand climate change because:
A)skepticism is a key characteristic of the scientific process itself,therefore,scientists do not easily rush to conclusions.
B)comparisons can be difficult when problems are framed in different ways.
C)theories that make opposing predictions are sometimes equally plausible.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Most scientific knowledge about greenhouse gases in maintaining the earth's temperature is relatively new.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) One of the known advantages of geoengineering is that it would most certainly have fewer side effects than mitigation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Energy and Society
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Q1) Summarize the key findings from research on personal and household energy consumption.Overall,why have efforts at reducing this type of energy consumption not been more successful?
Q2) The main obstacles to the spread of PVE technology are costs per megawatt and expense associated with building an infrastructure of solar panels.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following are barriers to creating a new energy system?
A)sunk costs in the current system
B)fewer tax breaks and subsidies for renewable energies than for fossil fuels
C)an issue-attention cycle
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q4) Identify and discuss three renewable energy sources.Be sure to discuss the pros and cons of each source,and then indicate which source you think is most promising and why.
Q5) If left unattended,energy predicaments can lead to energy crises.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Population, environment, and Food
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Q1) Middle tier global food consumers typically are:
A)malnourished because they do not eat enough beef.
B)unhealthy meat eaters who consume a high fat diet.
C)healthy because they eat a meat-based diet.
D)grain eaters who consume a mostly plant-based diet.
Q2) Golden rice has been hailed as a GM crop success because it eradicates Vitamin A deficiencies that block iron absorption.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A person's gender is correlated with their access to food.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define and explain the concept of exponential population growth.Be sure to give concrete examples.
Q5) Explain the Demographic Transition Model.What are its strengths and weaknesses? Be sure to provide specific examples to illustrate your argument.
Q6) Thomas Malthus was a strong supporter of the English Poor Laws.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Globalization, inequality, and Sustainability
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Q1) Considerable research shows that the very poor are significantly more likely than the rich or the middle class to cause serious environmental damage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The primary difference between mediascapes and ideoscapes is that the former tend to focus on political imagery while the latter focuses on the generic flow of information in a society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Actual social change in a society results from:
A)actors in social movements.
B)forces exogenous to the social system itself.
C)law-like and predictable physical forces.
D)the interaction of agents and social systems.
Q4) Classical economic thinking produced international institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the prospects for a transformation to sustainability.
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Chapter 7: Transforming Structures: Markets and Politics
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Q1) Rivers,air,and groundwater are considered to be:
A)private property.
B)common property.
C)government property.
D)public property.
Q2) Lobster fisheries in Maine have been sustainably managed for decades,thereby supporting the idea that commons resources need not be depleted.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a regulatory policy?
A)the 1872 Mining Act
B)the 1976 Clean Water Act
C)the 1992 Energy Policy Act
D)All of the above are regulatory policies.
E)None of the above are regulatory policies.
Q4) In spite of problems and strong antiglobalization protests,environmental protection is becoming institutionalized at a global level.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Environmentalism: Ideology and Collective Action
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Q1) Which of the following are associated with ecotheology?
A)The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responsibility
B)The Population Bomb
C)The Monkey Wrench Gang
D)Silent Spring
Q2) Environmental justice movement organizations are more likely to appeal to the white middle class than to minorities and the working class.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following best illustrates a direct action tactic that might be used by a grassroots movement organization?
A)holding a sit-in
B)lobbying
C)electoral efforts
D)research
Q4) The Sierra Club and the Audubon Society are both members of the Group of 10.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast environmentalism in LDCs with that in MDCs.
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