Exam 2 BGS
Sustainability leaders have found that the most effective environmental management approach involves:
A team of line managers from across the business organization.
When managers become personally involved in developing public policy, the firm is at what level of business political involvement?
Aggressive organizational involvement.
Which of the following statements is true of air pollution?
Air pollution occurs when more pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere than can be safely absorbed and diluted by natural processes.
Public policies and government regulations are shaped by:
All of these answers.
Companies that cultivate a vision of sustainability must adopt sophisticated strategic planning techniques to:
Allow their top manager to assess the full range of the firm's effects on the environment.
An organization that produces net zero emissions of greenhouse gases is achieving:
An organization that produces net zero emissions of greenhouse gases is achieving:
Antitrust laws protect consumers from:
Anticompetitive practices by business.
Government's role is to create and enforce laws that:
Balance the relationship between business and society.
Sustainable development:
Balances economic and environmental considerations.
By promoting the use of clean cookstoves in developing nations, a global alliance hopes to reduce:
Black carbon
To influence government policymakers' actions, an information strategy involves:
Business leaders speaking before government policymakers
Life-cycle analysis involves:
Collecting information regarding the lifelong environmental impact of a product, from extraction to disposal.
A shared resource, such as land, air, or water, that a group of people uses collectively is a(n):
Commons
Which of the following is not a possible cost of environmental regulation?
Corporate restructuring.
Companies that reduce pollution and hazardous waste, reuse or recycle materials, and operate with greater energy efficiency achieve a competitive advantage due to:
Cost savings.
A corporate political strategy does not:
Determine the legal limits allowed for campaign financing.
Lobbyists, under U.S. law, must disclose their:
Earnings and expenses.
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.
Being able to continue their activities indefinitely, without altering the carrying capacity of the earth's ecosystem, is a characteristic of:
Ecologically sustainable organizations.
The idea that companies have a continuing responsibility for the environmental impact of their products or services, even after they are sold is called:
Extended product responsiblity.
Recent reports indicate that sustainability is becoming a less strategic part of business.
False
In the U.S., most solid waste ends up:
In landfills.
Governments being asked to regulate driving distractions are examples of a public policy:
Input.
Advocacy ads are also called:
Issue advertisements.
Which of the following is true about the Toxic Substances Control Act?
It established a national policy to regulate, restrict, and, if necessary, ban toxic chemicals.
In recent annual Harris polls, which entity did Americans believe had the greatest amount of political power?
Large businessess.
The information strategy tool most used by businesses is:
Lobbying
Which of the following is indicative of a firm in the pollution prevention stage of the corporate environmental responsibility model?
Minimizing or eliminating waste before it is created.
One of the oldest financial-incentive strategy tools is:
Political action committee contributions.
A common tactic in a financial-incentive political strategy is:
Political contributions
Environmental justice is a movement to:
Prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste.
Which stage of corporate environmental responsibility focuses on the full life cycle of a product?
Product stewardship stage.
To help control political favoritism, there have been global efforts to:
Promote fairness in the electoral process.
Which of these factors has accelerated the current ecological crisis?
Rapid industrialization.
Rapid economic development is often accompanied by:
Rising incomes, bringing higher rates of both consumption and waste.
Natural capital refers to the world's:
Supply of geology, soil, air, water and all living things
Which of the following illustrates the idea of sustainable development through technology cooperation?
The development of long-term partnerships between companies in developed and developing countries to transfer environmental technologies.
Re-regulation is:
The increase or expansion of government regulation.
Cooperation between business and government often occurs when:
They encounter a common problem or enemy.
Economic leverage occurs when a business uses it economic power to:
Threaten to leave a location unless a desired political action is taken
The first United States federal laws to protect the environment involved protecting navigable waterways.
True
Dark money refers to:
Undisclosed contributions to tax exempt organizations.
Which of the following is an example of industrial ecology in practice?
Using wastes from one process as raw materials for another process.
Which of the following are examples of natural monopolies?
Which of the following are examples of natural monopolies?
Economists reported that the costs of regulatory compliance were highest for:
Worker safety
Deregulation is often:
a politically popular idea
When a government orders companies not to conduct business in another country because of a war, human rights violations, or lack of a legitimate government; these orders are called:
economic sanctions
Patterns of government taxing and spending that are intended to stimulate or support the economy are:
fiscal policies
When the market fails to adjust for the full costs of a firm's behavior, this is called:
market failure
The primary way of accomplishing public policy is through:
regulation
