Exam 2: Perspectives

In the Environmental Kuznets Curve, environmental degradation and income per capita are indicated by these proximate factors: ______, ______, ______, and ______.

Preservation is a policy of maintaining certain parcels of land ______.

Corporate social responsibility is a form of industry _______ that integrates into business strategy a process for monitoring and managing corporate conduct relative to external stakeholders.

Empirical trends ______ the Environmental Kuznets Curve.

Distinguish the environmental ethics views of anthropocentrism and biocentrism.

One of the design principles drawn from biomimicry states that "nature uses only the energy it _____."

One ____ of the Environmental Kuznets Curve is that increases in environmental degradation often ______ economic production.

According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve, as an economy develops from pre-industrial into post-industrial, environmental degradation _____ then _____.

Evaluate Nike's progress in handling the issue of labor abuse in its supply chain. Has the issue been resolved? Why or why not?

Explain how Home Depot lost, and then regained, its social license to operate.

Ecosystem ______ are the benefits that humans realize from productive ecosystems, such as biological filtration of water in a wetland.

According to anthropocentrism, protecting the environment is morally necessary only if _________.

Biocapacity deficit refers to a situation where _____ exceeds the regenerative capacity of an ecosystem.

Corporate social responsibility can be used to help ______ employees.

According to biocentrism, social and economic systems _______ environmental systems.

Natural capital accounting aligns business incentives with sustainable land use by revealing the _________ of preservation and conservation.

Human rights are based on the inherent _____ of all human beings.

The Environmental ______ is an economic theory predicting that environmental degradation rises then falls in an inverted U-shaped function of income per capita.

The four types of ecosystem services can be characterized as provisioning, ______, ______, and ______.

There are at least four ways to make the business case for corporate social responsibility, including benefits to _____, ______, ______, and _____.