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Questions and Answers of Environmental Economics

What special problems are associated with waterfowl management?
List six techniques utilized by wildlife managers.
List three key components of the Convention on Biological Diversity(biodiversity treaty).
What is desertification? What causes it?
List three problems associated with forest exploitation.
What are the major causes of biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems?
Describe three major causes of the loss of biodiversity.
Describe three factors that influence the genetic diversity of a population.
Why is the impact of humans greater today than at any time in the past?
Name three ways humans directly alter ecosystems.
What alternative energy resources that the text has outlined are most useful in your area? How might these be implemented?
Energy conservation is one way to decrease dependence on fossil fuels. What are some things you can do at home, work, or school that would reduce fossil-fuel use and save money?
Do you believe that large dam projects like the Three Gorges Dam project in China are, on the whole, beneficial? Do you believe they are not beneficial? What alternatives would you recommend? Why?
Imagine you are an official with the Department of Energy and are in the budgeting process for alternative energy research. Decide where you would invest money and explain why you made your
List three energy conservation techniques.
List two reasons people oppose additional wind energy development.
Describe two different ways sunlight is used to make electricity.
Compare a passive solar heating system with an active solar heating system.
What are negative environmental impacts of developing hydroelectric power?
List three negative environmental impacts of using biomass to provide energy.
How is the biofuel ethanol produced?
Why is burning of municipal waste to produce energy more common in Europe than in North America?
List industries that typically make use of the waste they produce to provide themselves with energy.
What renewable energy source provides the majority of renewable energy?
What percent of world energy comes from renewable energy sources?
What are the general characteristics of renewable energy sources?
Given what you know about the economic and environmental costs of different energy sources, would you recommend that your local utility company use nuclear power or coal to supplement electric
Some states allow consumers to choose an electric supplier. Would you choose an alternative to nuclear or coal even if it cost more?
Recent concerns about global warming have begun to revive the nuclear industry in the United States. Do you think nuclear power should be used instead of coal for generating electricity? Why?
Coal-burning electric power plants in the Midwest have contributed to acid rain in the eastern United States. Other energy sources would most likely be costlier than coal, thereby raising electricity
What options are available during Stage 2 of the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant?
What happens during Stage 1 of the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant?
What are the major environmental problems associated with the use of nuclear power?
What happened at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima?Why did it happen?
List the three primary methods of protecting people from damaging radiation.
How does radiation cause damage to organisms?
Name the steps in the nuclear fuel cycle.
Describe how a nuclear power plant generates electricity.
What is a nuclear chain reaction?
What are the products of the nuclear disintegration of a radioactive isotope?
What environmental concern has caused people to be more accepting of nuclear power?
What environmental advantage does natural gas have over oil and coal?
What is the most common environmental problem associated with the extraction and transportation of oil?
What are secondary and tertiary oil recovery methods? Why is their use related to the price of oil?
List three environmental impacts of the use of coal.
What regions of the world have the largest reserves of coal? Of oil?Of natural gas?
Describe the processes that resulted in the formation of oil and natural gas.
Describe the differences between lignite, bituminous, and anthracite coal.
Describe the geologic processes that resulted in the formation of coal.
Describe three factors that can cause the amount of an oil reserve to increase.
Distinguish between reserves and resources.
Name the three most important sources of energy.
How do you think projected energy consumption will affect world politics and economics, given current concerns about global warming?
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) controls over 70 percent of the known oil reserves. What political and economic effects do you think this has? Does this have any effect on
How has the ubiquitous nature of automobiles changed the United States? Do you feel these changes are, on balance, positive or negative?What should the future look like regarding automobile use in
Some argue that the price of gasoline in the United States is artificially low because it does not take into account all of the costs of producing and using gasoline. If you were to figure out the
What might be some of the effects of raising gasoline taxes in the United States to the rate that most Europeans pay for gasoline?Why? What do you think about this possibility?
Imagine you are a historian writing about the Industrial Revolution.Imagine that you also have your new knowledge of environmental science and its perspective. What kind of a story would you tell
Based on current trends, what is likely to happen to the availability and price of energy in the next ten years?
Give examples of how political and economic events affect energy prices and usage.
Why is OPEC important in the world’s economy?
List the three primary categories of energy use in industrialized societies.
State two reasons the cost of electricity differs from one country to another.
What advantages does electrical energy have over other kinds of energy?
Describe two actions governments take that cause changes in how citizens use energy.
Describe two factors that have led to the dominance of automobiles as a form of transportation in the United States.
What major factor caused a shift to the use of oil as a source of energy?
What factors caused a shift from wood to coal as a source of energy?
How was the availability of coal important in determining if a country participated in the Industrial Revolution?
In addition to food, what energy requirements does a civilization have?
How did the domestication of animals change energy use in early cultures?
The demographic changes occurring in Mexico have an influence on the United States. What problems does Mexico face regarding its demographics? Should the United States be involved in Mexican
Many people in developing countries hope to achieve the standard of living of those in the developed world. What might be the effect of this pressure on the environment in developing countries? On
Imagine a debate between an American and a Sudanese person about human population and the scarcity of resources. What perspectives do you think the American might bring to the debate? What
Do you think that demographic transition will be a viable option for world development? What evidence leads you to your conclusions?What role should the developed countries play in the current
Population growth causes many environmental problems. Identify some of these problems. What role do you think technology will play in solving these problems? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about
Do you think it is appropriate for developed countries to persuade less-developed countries to limit their population growth? What would be appropriate and inappropriate interventions, according to
Consider the differences between K-strategists and r-strategists.What costs are incurred by adopting either strategy? What evolutionary benefits does each strategy enjoy?
Why do you suppose some organisms display high natality and others display lower natality? For example, why do cottontail rabbits show high natality and wolves relatively low natality? Why wouldn’t
How are age distribution, total fertility rate, and immigration affecting the way the U.S. population is changing?
Describe three reasons why women in the less-developed world might desire more than two children.
Which three areas of the world have the highest population growth rate? Which three areas of the world have the lowest standard of living?
Why do people who live in overpopulated countries use plants as their main source of food?
List ten differences between your standard of living and that of someone in a less-developed country.
Why do economic well-being and the status of women influence the number of children born in a country?
How does the age distribution of a population affect the rate at which a population grows?
Why is your ecological footprint larger than that of a person in Africa?
Interpret the meaning of I 5 P 3 A 3 T.
What is demographic transition? What is it based on?
All successful organisms overproduce. What advantage does this provide for the species? What disadvantages may occur?
As the human population continues to increase, what might happen to other species?
How do K-strategists and r-strategists differ?
Give examples of intrinsic, extrinsic, density-dependent, and densityindependent limiting factors.
How does the population growth curve of humans compare with that of bacteria on a petri dish?
How do the concepts of birth rate and population growth differ?
List four factors that could determine the carrying capacity of an animal species.
Under what conditions might a death phase occur?
Draw and label a population growth curve.
Why do some populations grow? What factors help to determine the rate of this growth?
List three characteristics populations might have.

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