NPTEL Environment and Development Week 2 Assignment Answers 2024

1. Prior to the 1960s, environmentalism focused on ______________ and conservation of resources.

Preservation of culture
Preservation of wilderness
Preservation of food
Preservation of water

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2. The book Silent Spring published in 1962, sparked the beginning of

Liberal environmentalism
Radical environmentalism
Modern environmentalism
Traditional environmentalism

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3. ______________ claims that living things other than humans, and the natural environment as a whole, are deserving of consideration in reasoning about the morality of political, economic, and social policies.

Materialism
Environmentalism
Idealism
Utilitarianism

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4. ______________ focuses mainly on the negative effects that environmental degradation has on human beings and their interests, including their interests in health, recreation, and quality of life

Biocentrism
Environmentalism
Anthropocentrism
Ecofeminism

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5. _____________ claims that nature has an intrinsic moral worth that does not depend on its usefulness to human beings, and it is this intrinsic worth that gives rise directly to obligations to the environment.

Biocentrism
Environmentalism
Anthropocentrism
Realism

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6. Who authored the book Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (1966)?

Rachel Carson
Kenneth E. Boulding
Paul Ehrlich
None of these

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7. In which year was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established?

1963
1968
1988
1973

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8. The term ‘ecological refugees’ refers to

Unemployed people who eke out a living in the cities on the leavings of omnivores prosperity
Displaced people who eke out a living in the cities on the leavings of omnivores prosperity
None of these
Peasants-turned-slum dwellers who eke out a living in the cities on the leavings of omnivores prosperity