BUS 100 Lesson 13 Reading Quiz

Environmental justice is a movement to: a) Prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste. b) Identify polluters and require them to pay for the cleanup of their toxic waste. c) Reduce pollution at the source, rather than treat and dispose of waste at the "end of the pipe." d) Specifically restrict the use of dangerous pesticides which can pollute groundwater.

A

Natural capital refers to the world's: a) Supply of geology, soil, air, water, and all living things. b) Combined stock ownership. c) Combined capital investments. d) Supply of sustainable developers.

A

The amount of land and water a human population needs to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes given prevailing technology is called: a) Ecological footprint. b) Technological innovation. c) Sustainable development. d) Consumption footprint.

A

Which of the following statements is not true about the population? a) Over the next century, population growth is expected to be greatest in developed nations. b) For many thousands of years, population growth was gradual. c) Industrial production would have to quintuple over the next 40 years in order to maintain the same living standard that people have now, given expected population growth. d) Just 10,000 years ago, the Earth was home to no more than 10 million humans, scattered in small settlements.

A

When businesses form voluntary, collaborative partnerships with environmental organizations and regulators to achieve specific objectives this is called: a) Inter-organizational alliances. b) Environmental partnerships. c) Cross-functional teams. d) Command and control.

B

A firm in the pollution prevention stage of the corporate environmental responsibility model is best described by which statement? a) Using innovation to create new sustainable technology. b) Focusing on all environmental impacts of the product life cycle. c) Minimizing or eliminating waste before it is created. d) Incurring losses due to environmental costs.

C

Possible costs of environmental regulation include all of the following except: a) Unemployment. b) Reduced capital investment. c) Corporate restructuring. d) Lowered productivity.

C

Sustainable development: a) Meets the needs of the present while compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. b) Gives precedence to environmental over economic considerations. c) Balances economic and environmental considerations. d) Gives precedence to present needs over future needs.

C

In the United States, the federal government regulates which of the following major areas of environmental protection? a) Air pollution. b) Water pollution. c) Solid and hazardous waste. d) All of these answers are correct.

D

A shared resource, such as land, air, or water, that a group of people uses collectively is a(n): a) Economic village. b) Collective resource. c) Global unification. d) Commons.

d