I WANT PART 1 DONE BY 17TH AND PART 2 BY 19TH PART 1 Question 1 (2 points) Thomas Malthus was: Question 1 options: A) an English clergyman who lived in the early 1800's. B) one of the earliest...

I WANT PART 1 DONE BY 17TH AND PART 2 BY 19TH
PART 1
Question 1 (2 points)
Thomas Malthus was:
Question 1 options:
A) an English clergyman who lived in the early 1800's.
B)
one of the earliest economic authors to warn about population
growth.

C)
a futurist who warned that overpopulation could result in mass
starvation.

D) all of the above
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Question 2 (2 points)
A manufacturing or service process that creates a negative externality by definition does not have a purely
market oriented solution.
Question 2 options:
A) True
B) False
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Question 3 (2 points)
Unintended pregnancies are not one of the primary reasons for overpopulation.
Question 3 options:
A) True
B) False
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Question 4 (2 points)
According to cu
ent consumption patterns, solid waste per capita rises dramatically with affluence.
Question 4 options:
A) True
B) False
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Question 5 (2 points)
Women are still culturally and economically repressed in some developed countries.
Question 5 options:
A) True
B) False
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Question 6 (2 points)
Direct valuation relies on prices set in markets or contingent value techniques to to establish value.
Question 6 options:
A) True
B) False
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Question 7 (2 points)
The World Trade Organization has forced some countries to reverse their own domestic laws regarding
environmental quality and worker safety.
Question 7 options:
A) True
B) False
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Multiple Choice
Question 8 (2 points)
In a country where income distribution is heavily skewed towards the top few percent of the population having
most of the wealth, the Gini coefficient will be
Question 8 options:
A) negative.
B) around zero.
C) close to 1.
D) off the charts!
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Question 9 (2 points)
The Malthusian prediction that population growth would cause eventual widespread famine has been forestalled
y
Question 9 options:
A) cultivation of more land for agriculture.
B) improvements in the technology of agricultural production.
C) better weather forecasting.
D) increasing number of people becoming farmers.
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Question 10 (2 points)
The trend in per capita municipal solid waste in the U.S.
Question 10 options:
A) has continued to grow exponentially.
B) has been declining since the 1970's.
C)
increased in the 1980's, but flattened out in the 1990's and
eyond.

D) has remained unchanged for decades.
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Question 11 (2 points)
Hedonic pricing means:
Question 11 options:
A) prices that relate to how much people enjoy something.
B)
observing prices in goods and services related to a particular
environmental asset.

C)
observing prices in goods and services not related to a
particular environmental asset.
D) prices that relate to how much people do not enjoy something.
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Question 12 (2 points)
One drawback of hedonic pricing is:
Question 12 options:
A) data on such prices is poorly collected, and therefore unreliable.
B)
there is weak theoretical support that such an approach is
meaningful.
C)
large datasets are typically needed to establish significant
elationships between the prices and environmental variables.
D) not much data are actually available.
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Question 13 (2 points)
Of the six global environmental issues we studied, the most serious one is
Question 13 options:
A) ozone depletion
B) greenhouse gases
C) deforestation
D) ocean pollution
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Question 14 (2 points)
The "Battle In Seattle" refers to
Question 14 options:
A) riots against the Vietnam War.
B) an Indian war that happened in the mid-1800's.
C) street protests against the WTO meeting there in 1999.
D) a flash mob that turned into a riot with the police.
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Question 15 (3 points)
Question 15 options:
The two basic approaches to establishing economic value to environmental assets which cannot be valued
through conventional (private) markets are
Contingent valuation

and
Hedonic Pricing

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Question 16 (2 points)
Question 16 options:
The theory of demographic transition revolves around two key demographic events in relation to economic
progress, which are the rates of
Birth rate

and
death rate

, in relation to the stages of economic development.
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Question 17 (2 points)
Question 17 options:
A specialized device that can be used to measure ozone content in the atmosphere, besides satellites, is called
a
LIDAR

.
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Question 18 (3 points)
Question 18 options:
The six top global environmental issues are (answers can be more than one word): (1)
Ozone depletion

, (2)
Green house gases

, (3)
deforestation

, (4)
oceaning pollution

, (5)
Air pollution

, and (6)
global w arming

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Question 19 (3 points)
Question 19 options:
The three top global institutions that govern world trade are (use full spellings, not acronyms): (1)
World Trade organization

, (2)
International Monetary Fund

, and (3)
Organization for Economic Coop

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Question 20 (2 points)
Question 20 options:
The most significant international treaty to date about greenhouse gases, but which is due to expire at the end
of 2012, is known as the
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Short Answe
Question 21 (2 points)
Explain the difference in geometric versus arithmetic growth rates.
Question 21 options:
Arithmetic grow th uses a fixed grow th rat
w here as geometric grow th uses a varai

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Longer Answers
Question 23 (5 points)
Explain why David Suzuki does not believe there is a technological solution to global overpopulation, based on
his Test Tube Story.
Question 23 options:
He thinks that human attempt to overw helm
ecological problem. Even w ith the technolo
Anything in a f init w orld cannot grow fore
We live w ithin the biosphere that cannot g
Eventhought w ith the advanced technolog

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Question 24 (5 points)
What are some of the strategies for moderating the amount of municipal solid waste generated by...