SUST201 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Which of the following most accurately describes an environmental justice issue rather than a
climate justice issue? - ANS A) high rates of heat exhaustion in an affordable housing
apartment building without air conditioning
B) An increase of flooding in informal settlements outside Dhaka, Bangladesh
C) the placement of a nuclear test site near a marginalized country
D) The migration of people from Somalia due to prolonged droughts
3 phases of sustainable development - ANS 1) earth as a finite limited environment
2) introduction and proliferation of term "sustainable development
3) contemporary fragmentation of sustainability
Early thinkers on sustainability - ANS since humans survival and quality of life is contingent on
natural resources, early sustainability concerns are present in resource management fields such
as agriculture and forestry
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,early use of a word meaning "sustainability" occurred in 1713 book Sylvincultura economic by
German forester Hans carl von Carlowitz
pueblo story of sustainability - ANS think of the video we watched in class:
what are some main features of a pueblo perspective of sustainability?
-share a common story -emergence
-interdependence of relations, related, connections
-pathway in life, "look to the mountain", look at the past, present, future
-understanding yourself
-unity, diversity
-spirituality
-land sustains us we sustain it
Rachel Carson silent spring book - ANS 1960s -growing environmental movement
biologist/conservationist
1962 book silent spring described the effects of insecticide, DDT(dichloro-diphenyl-
trichloroethane) on animals and humans through bioaccumulation- through food chain
farmers used to kill birds off the fields
bioaccumulation - ANS an increase in the concentration of a chemical in a biological organism
over time, compared to the chemical's concentration in the environment
space ship earth - ANS first coloured image of earth taken from Apollo 8 in 1968
"cowboy economy/earth" good
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, "spaceship earth" bad
UNEP - ANS United Nations environment progamme established in 1972
central arena fro global environmental policy
1960s/70s number of environmental NGOS (non-government organization)
tragedy of the commons(Garret Hardin 1968) - ANS -shared space
-many environmental problems illustrate a "tragedy of the commons"
-an economic problem where the individual consumes a resource at the expense of society
which of the following statements does NOT reflect a "tragedy of the commons"? - ANS A)
trawlers overfishing in the Mediterranean Sea
B) cattle overgrazing on a ranchers land
C) industrial and car pollution in a city
D) nitrogen pollution in the Great Lakes from agricultural and industrial run-off
the global 2000 report to the president - ANS 1980 report commissioned by president Jimmy
Carter
described how the world in 2000 would be "more crowded, more polluted, less stable
ecologically and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now"
further recommendations and policy actions from the report were stalled with the election of
president Ronald Reagan
sustainability as a movement is interconnected with social and political processes
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Which of the following most accurately describes an environmental justice issue rather than a
climate justice issue? - ANS A) high rates of heat exhaustion in an affordable housing
apartment building without air conditioning
B) An increase of flooding in informal settlements outside Dhaka, Bangladesh
C) the placement of a nuclear test site near a marginalized country
D) The migration of people from Somalia due to prolonged droughts
3 phases of sustainable development - ANS 1) earth as a finite limited environment
2) introduction and proliferation of term "sustainable development
3) contemporary fragmentation of sustainability
Early thinkers on sustainability - ANS since humans survival and quality of life is contingent on
natural resources, early sustainability concerns are present in resource management fields such
as agriculture and forestry
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,early use of a word meaning "sustainability" occurred in 1713 book Sylvincultura economic by
German forester Hans carl von Carlowitz
pueblo story of sustainability - ANS think of the video we watched in class:
what are some main features of a pueblo perspective of sustainability?
-share a common story -emergence
-interdependence of relations, related, connections
-pathway in life, "look to the mountain", look at the past, present, future
-understanding yourself
-unity, diversity
-spirituality
-land sustains us we sustain it
Rachel Carson silent spring book - ANS 1960s -growing environmental movement
biologist/conservationist
1962 book silent spring described the effects of insecticide, DDT(dichloro-diphenyl-
trichloroethane) on animals and humans through bioaccumulation- through food chain
farmers used to kill birds off the fields
bioaccumulation - ANS an increase in the concentration of a chemical in a biological organism
over time, compared to the chemical's concentration in the environment
space ship earth - ANS first coloured image of earth taken from Apollo 8 in 1968
"cowboy economy/earth" good
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, "spaceship earth" bad
UNEP - ANS United Nations environment progamme established in 1972
central arena fro global environmental policy
1960s/70s number of environmental NGOS (non-government organization)
tragedy of the commons(Garret Hardin 1968) - ANS -shared space
-many environmental problems illustrate a "tragedy of the commons"
-an economic problem where the individual consumes a resource at the expense of society
which of the following statements does NOT reflect a "tragedy of the commons"? - ANS A)
trawlers overfishing in the Mediterranean Sea
B) cattle overgrazing on a ranchers land
C) industrial and car pollution in a city
D) nitrogen pollution in the Great Lakes from agricultural and industrial run-off
the global 2000 report to the president - ANS 1980 report commissioned by president Jimmy
Carter
described how the world in 2000 would be "more crowded, more polluted, less stable
ecologically and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now"
further recommendations and policy actions from the report were stalled with the election of
president Ronald Reagan
sustainability as a movement is interconnected with social and political processes
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