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Final Review Game. Carbon Dioxide $100. A thesis based in neoclassical economics (markets perspective), holding that externalities (like carbon) can be most efficiently controlled through contracts and barging between property owners. back. Carbon Dioxide $200.
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Carbon Dioxide $100 • A thesis based in neoclassical economics (markets perspective), holding that externalities (like carbon) can be most efficiently controlled through contracts and barging between property owners. back
Carbon Dioxide $200 • Forms of regulation that depend on government laws and agencies to enforce rules, including such things as regulated limits on pollution or fuel efficiency standards. back
Carbon Dioxide $300 • Describes the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements upon its climate. back
Carbon Dioxide $400 • An institution that tries to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which comes to an end in 2012. back
Carbon Dioxide $500 • Name two of the five general and persistent factors that limit the overall effective potential of market-based solutions to carbon emissions. • back
Trees $100 • Responsible for 1/5 of carbon emissions. back
Trees $200 • Benefits that an organic system creates through its function, including food resources, clean air or water , pollination, carbon sequestration, energy, and nutrient cycling. back
Trees $300 • Theory that says over time forest cover declines, but at some point a transition occurs, and that the decline halts and reverses and forest cover thereafter expands. back
Trees $400 • Theory that sees a directional shift in community structures and function towards a climax community, where nature is in perfect balance. Succession is viewed as linear and climax community as the preferred state. back
Trees $500 • A program to reduce emissions from deforestation. • Which perspective(s) is(are) dominate in this approach? • What problems might other perspectives have with this solution? • What are some general problems with this solution? • back
Wolves $100 • The animals in an ecosystem, which occupy the top trophic level. back
Wolves $200 • Think about how wolves are portrayed in children's books. This creates a ________ that allows people to fear wolves and acquiesce in their extermination. back
Wolves $300 • Areas which contain a high number of endemic species and have lost most of their habitat. back
Wolves $400 • Ethical stances on wolves: • Wolves should exist because they play a valuable role in the ecosystem in which they live. • Wolves should exist because they have an intrinsic right to exist as a species. • Wolves should exist because people enjoy seeing them and learning from them. They bring us joy. back
Wolves $500 • If wolves (or lions or elephants) are preserved in their natural habitat for ethical or ecological reasons, a risks and hazards and political economy approach might join to point out a few problems. • back
Water $100 • The two main legal (management) doctrines for water management in the US. back
Water $200 • Water-energy nexus back
Water $300 • Responsible for displacing millions of people in the last century and some produce up to 20x more greenhouse gases than coal fired power plants. back
Water $400 • Water is a common property in many parts of the world including Colorado. Name the adverse consequence of water belonging to all Colorado citizens (it was discussed in lecture). back
Water $500 • A markets approach might say that putting water in a bottle and selling it is the most efficient way to get water to where its most needed. There is obviously a market for bottled water, people are buying it, so we should bottle up as much water as the market demands. • Using the social construction, risks and hazards, and political economy approach, how could you critically respond to this? • back
French Fries $100 • A single crop cultivated to the exclusion of any other potential harvest. back
French Fries $200 • Counter movement to fast food founded in the 1980’s which was established with the principle that a meal should be “good”, “clean”, and “fair”. back
French Fries $300 • The movement of species across the Atlantic Ocean, from the New World to the Old World and vice versa, and the resulting transformations. back
French Fries $400 • What term explains the reason fast food companies are moving into new markets like China or India? back
French Fries $500 • What are the risks associated with monocropping? • What is the solution to the risk problems presented by monocropping? • back
Approaches $100 • What does IPAT stand for? back
Approaches $200 • Global warming is an _________ caused by humans converting fossil fuels into energy. This type of situation is called a __________. back
Approaches $300 • This is the major critique of Social Construction. back
Approaches $400 • Explain how the TOC is an environmental narrative, explain the power/knowledge promoted in the narrative (i.e. who wins, who looses, what’s left out of the knowledge of the narrative and how does this relate to empowerment). back
Approaches $500 • The Second Contradiction of Capitalism is a Political Economy idea that . . . back
