EXAM 2 SOS 110 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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Resilience - ANSWER The ability to adapt when stress and diversity arises, the
ability spring into shape and recover from toughness. Not about how fast but
about if the system can even recover at all.
Scarcity - ANSWER Shortage, short in supply
Green Revolution - ANSWER worldwide intensification of food production to
increase yield using technologies such as tractors, fertilizers, pesticides, and large
fossil fuel input
More food=more People
Carrying Capacity - ANSWER The maximum number of individuals of a certain
species that a given environment can support indefinitely given its finite resources
and without being degraded
- no population can grow indefinitely for two reasons:
* resource limitations (light, space, H2O, Nutrients)
*other species (predation, competition, disease, etc)
Multi Phase Transition - ANSWER The multi phase transition focuses on four
different that an SES goes through sequentially over long time periods as it
experiences a transition: pre-development, take-off, acceleration, and
stabilization. Useful when building transition strategies for guiding present
systems toward sustainability
,Innovation - ANSWER a new technological development including both
physical and knowledge systems
Co-Management - ANSWER situation in which a resource system is managed
by some combination of gov, market, and community institutions
Common Pool Resources - ANSWER Type of resource that is susceptible to
Tragedy of Commons situation due to its non-excludability and rivalry
Negative Externality - ANSWER Cost incurred by an individual or group who did
not agree to the action that cause the harm either because they didn't have a
choice or there interest weren't taken into account
Tragedy of the Commons - ANSWER results when individuals acting in their
own self interest make choices that result in outcomes that are detrimental to
society as a whole
Non-Excludable - ANSWER how difficult/costly it is to prevent users from
accessing a resource
ex: fish stocks in the town lake where one fishes
Excludable - ANSWER resource that has a low cost associated with excluding
resources users from using it.
Ex: if you own shampoo then no one else can use that exact shampoo bottle
, Excludability - ANSWER a measure of the cost that is required to prevent users
from accessing a resource
Rival Goods/ non rival - ANSWER Rival:
-a measure of the quantity of a resource left over after its been consumed by a
subset of resource users
Non Rival:
-good is unlimited/no less if you have it
polyculture - ANSWER using multiple crops in one place, imitation of the
diversity of the natural ecosystem and avoiding large stands of sing crops or
monoculture
monoculture - ANSWER cultivation of a single crop in a given area
Invisible Hand - ANSWER Adam Smith came up with term to describe how the
market worked based off the idea when individuals such as buyers and sellers act
in their own self interest in markets then its hard to predict the future that will
occur emerge as the market clearing price and quantity of the price/quantity
guide the behavior of individuals in markets
non renewable resource - ANSWER a resource that cannot be renewed at a
sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in a meaningful human time
frame
Slow renewal rate--> decreasing resource stock---> fast extraction rate
ex: fossil fuels, soil, water, mineral resources
DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY SCORED A+ |
LATEST UPDATE 2025
Resilience - ANSWER The ability to adapt when stress and diversity arises, the
ability spring into shape and recover from toughness. Not about how fast but
about if the system can even recover at all.
Scarcity - ANSWER Shortage, short in supply
Green Revolution - ANSWER worldwide intensification of food production to
increase yield using technologies such as tractors, fertilizers, pesticides, and large
fossil fuel input
More food=more People
Carrying Capacity - ANSWER The maximum number of individuals of a certain
species that a given environment can support indefinitely given its finite resources
and without being degraded
- no population can grow indefinitely for two reasons:
* resource limitations (light, space, H2O, Nutrients)
*other species (predation, competition, disease, etc)
Multi Phase Transition - ANSWER The multi phase transition focuses on four
different that an SES goes through sequentially over long time periods as it
experiences a transition: pre-development, take-off, acceleration, and
stabilization. Useful when building transition strategies for guiding present
systems toward sustainability
,Innovation - ANSWER a new technological development including both
physical and knowledge systems
Co-Management - ANSWER situation in which a resource system is managed
by some combination of gov, market, and community institutions
Common Pool Resources - ANSWER Type of resource that is susceptible to
Tragedy of Commons situation due to its non-excludability and rivalry
Negative Externality - ANSWER Cost incurred by an individual or group who did
not agree to the action that cause the harm either because they didn't have a
choice or there interest weren't taken into account
Tragedy of the Commons - ANSWER results when individuals acting in their
own self interest make choices that result in outcomes that are detrimental to
society as a whole
Non-Excludable - ANSWER how difficult/costly it is to prevent users from
accessing a resource
ex: fish stocks in the town lake where one fishes
Excludable - ANSWER resource that has a low cost associated with excluding
resources users from using it.
Ex: if you own shampoo then no one else can use that exact shampoo bottle
, Excludability - ANSWER a measure of the cost that is required to prevent users
from accessing a resource
Rival Goods/ non rival - ANSWER Rival:
-a measure of the quantity of a resource left over after its been consumed by a
subset of resource users
Non Rival:
-good is unlimited/no less if you have it
polyculture - ANSWER using multiple crops in one place, imitation of the
diversity of the natural ecosystem and avoiding large stands of sing crops or
monoculture
monoculture - ANSWER cultivation of a single crop in a given area
Invisible Hand - ANSWER Adam Smith came up with term to describe how the
market worked based off the idea when individuals such as buyers and sellers act
in their own self interest in markets then its hard to predict the future that will
occur emerge as the market clearing price and quantity of the price/quantity
guide the behavior of individuals in markets
non renewable resource - ANSWER a resource that cannot be renewed at a
sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in a meaningful human time
frame
Slow renewal rate--> decreasing resource stock---> fast extraction rate
ex: fossil fuels, soil, water, mineral resources
