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
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9. In which year the Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the ‘Bhopal gas tragedy’ occurred?
- 1996
- 1984
- 1981
- 2003
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10. The complete form of NEPA (1969) is
- The National Employment Policy Act
- The National Environmental Policy Act
- The National Education Policy Act
- None of these
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