BUS 100 part 2

Sustainable development:

Balances economic and environmental considerations.

A technological application that uses biological systems or living organisms to make or modify products or processes for specific use is called:

Biotechnology.

One type of digital currency that operates outside the banking system using encrypted technology is:

Bitcoin.

Possible costs of environmental regulation include all of the following except:

Corporate restructuring.

Buying and selling goods and services electronically is called:

E-business.

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:

Ecological footprint.

When businesses form voluntary, collaborative partnerships with environmental organizations and regulators to achieve specific objectives this is called:

Environmental partnerships.

The collection of information on the lifelong environmental impact of a product, all the way from extraction of raw material to design, manufacturing, distribution, use, and ultimate disposal, is know as

Life-cycle analysis

A firm in the pollution prevention stage of the corporate environmental responsibility model is best described by which statement?

Minimizing or eliminating waste before it is created.

Which of the following statements is not true about the population?

Over the next century, population growth is expected to be greatest in developed nations.

Environmental justice is a movement to:

Prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste.

A person's entitlement to protection from invasion of one's personal life is called the:

Right to privacy.

Natural capital refers to the world's:

Supply of geology, soil, air, water, and all living things.

One argument in favor of net neutrality is:

To fairly compete, small, medium, and large firms should have the same Internet bandwidth.

The Internet and the many technologies that have arisen as a result have created major concerns about

All of the above

In the United States, the federal government regulates which of the following major areas of environmental protection?

All of these answers are correct.

Intellectual property refers to:

All of these answers are correct.

Many rapid changes in technology over the past few decades were facilitated by:

All of these answers are correct.

The purpose of the right to be forgotten is to:

Increase protection of privacy and personal information.

The digital divide describes the gap between those:

Individuals who have technology and those who do not.