Exam 10: Towards Sustainable Development

What did COVID-19 reveal about development?

A national waste company with government contracts wants to create a new landfill two miles from Indigenous territory. A water source for the community runs between the edge of the territory and where the landfill would begin. Local protests and a lawsuit forced the company to put their plans on hold. A subsidiarity system would be more effective than unbiased remote decision-makers in this dispute.

Degrowth economic movements are spreading in all of the following countries except ______.

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to replace the Millennium. Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000.

Degrowth economics is designed to ______.

Power remains highly centralized in the ______, potentially compromising ______ at national and international scales.

Current measures of development are not adequate because of their emphasis on nonmarket forces.

A woman in southern India who lacks access to clean water, has limited access to healthcare, occasionally uses seeds as currency, and does not receive Universal Basic Income, would fall into what category?

All of the following are steps the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems proposed to rebuild legitimacy into the World Food Summit, EXCEPT ______.

When markets fail, jobs disappear, and access to goods and services contracts, protective impulses emerge, demanding public security and oversight during global economic and health crises.