NPTEL Environment and Development Week 4 Assignment Answers 2024
1. Arne Naess’s concept of human self-realization refers
- The ecological others
- The ecological community
- The ecological self
- None of these
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2. Which of the following best characterizes shallow ecology?
- It is anthropocentric, or human centered
- It views humans as above or outside of nature, as the source of all value
- It ascribes only instrumental, or ‘use’, value to nature
- All of these
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3. Who among the following authored the book Wilderness and the American Mind, published in 1967?
- Roderick Nash
- Lynn White
- Murray Bookchin
- Rachel Carson
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4. What is the Judeo-Christian belief about human-nature interactions?
- Man was meant to dominate nature
- Nature was meant to dominate man
- Man was meant to pacify nature
- Nature was meant to pacify man
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5. What is the dominant environmental tradition in North America?
- Free flowing rivers and natural forests are cherished by environmentalists for their beauty and commercial value
- Free flowing rivers and natural forests are cherished by environmentalists for cultural and commercial value
- Free flowing rivers and natural forests are cherished by environmentalists for their beauty and ecological value
- None of these
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6. Gandhian concept of environmentalism relies on
- Social and religious viewpoints
- Moral and religious viewpoints
- Moral and cultural viewpoints
- Political and religious viewpoints
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7. What does Sarvodaya signifies?
- The awakening or liberation of one and all without exception
- The awakening of humanity along with other species in the earth
- Protection of nature
- All of these
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8. What does social ecology claims?
- The environmental crisis is a result of the non-hierarchical organization of power and the authoritarian mentality rooted in the structures of our society
- The environmental crisis is a result of the hierarchical organization of power and the authoritarian mentality rooted in the structures of our society
- The environmental crisis is a result of the non-hierarchical organization of power and the colonial mentality rooted in the structures of our society
- The environmental crisis is a result of the hierarchical organization of power and the colonial mentality rooted in the structures of our society
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9. Some people from the Third World express a suspicion that deep ecology is a new variant of Western domination and
- Modernism
- Post-modernism
- Colonialism
- Neo-Colonialism
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10. Which of the following tribe, guided by their shamans, make use of various myths and rituals that prevent over-hunting and over-fishing?
- Red Indians
- Tukano Indians
- Ayoreo
- Yanomami
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