Exam 1: Environment, Resources, and Society

Much of the population growth forecasted for the next four decades will occur in highly developed countries.

Globally, ________ of workers live in extreme poverty.

Cape Town has solved its water crisis.

Species are becoming extinct at rates greater than those over the last 65 million years.

Which initiatives did Cape Town NOT plan in order to increase water supply to the city?

The following is one of the key concerns related to implementing the triple bottom line: ________.

The first wave of environmental management mainly focused on ________.

A country with a fertility rate of 2.0 will theoretically have ________.

________ of the world's population living in North America and Western Europe accounts for ________ of of all private consumption spending.

How does energy consumption vary across the globe?

Incorporating the value systems of Indigenous peoples mainly occurred during the ________ of environmental management.

Population pyramids provide information about ________.

Briefly describe the different perspectives on the Trans Mountain Pipeline project.

What is resilience and what are some of the complications in sustaining it in resource management?

An example of a novel entity is ________.

By 2030, almost ________ people are expected to live in urban areas.

An example of natural systems would be ________.

The shape of the population period for a country with low life expectancy and a high birth rate has ________ shape.

The Kuznet curve suggests that there is an income level that acts as a turning point towards environmental improvement.

The belief that ecosystem components are defined relative to human interests is ________ view.