Environment and Technology Subcategories

Environment and Technology

Scientific knowledge:

A. Is disseminated through epistemic communities
B. Has played a key role in the creation of framework conventions and control protocols
C. Has particularly influenced the discourse of climate change
D. All of the options given are correct

Which of the following statements about death rates is accurate?

A. Wars, droughts, epidemics, and disasters have a strong destabilizing effect on the global death rate
B. Death rates tend to be stable from one state or region to another, but vary strongly at the global death rate
C. Death rates vary greatly from one state or region to another, but the global trends are stable from decade to decade
D. Global warming has brought a measurable rise in global death rates

The “global commons” refers to:

A. the shared parts of the earth
B. the parts of the Earth not accessible to any one nation
C. natural phenomena that affect all inhabitants of the Earth
D. all parts of nature that contribute to the health of the global environment

Capacity building involves:

A. Arrangements for the transfer of funds, technology and expertise
B. Environmental projects in developed countries
C. a and b
D. None of the options given is correct

Realist approaches to environmental politics:

A. Emphasize the role of institutions in regulating the environment
B. Focuses ones of state power and interest
C. Emphasizes the role played by epistemic communities of scientists
D. Focus on the dissemination of environmental norms

Most people infected with HIV are in:

A. North America
B. South America
C. Africa
D. Southeast Asia

The Qatar-based all-news satellite TV network _______ has become a major force in Middle East politics.

A. al Rasheed
B. al Kalipha
C. al Bassara
D. al Jazeera

The Montreal Protocol on CFCs:

A. has been successful, but is not projected to have any significant effect on the hole in the ozone layer
B. has been the most important success in global efforts to coordinate environmental protection
C. is one of the most prominent failures of international efforts to coordinate environmental protection
D. has been ratified by most states and seem some voluntary compliance, but has failed to win the approval of some of the largest violators of CFC emissions

The regime under which the production and trading of CFCs and other ozone depleting substances would be progressively phased out is:

A. The Montreal Protocol
B. The ChloroFluoroCarbon Treaty
C. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
D. None of the options given is correct