NPTEL Environment and Development Week 7 Assignment Asnwers 2024
1. Where does the Van Gujjars belong to?
- Central part of the Indian Himalayas
- South India
- North-east
- Jammu Kashmir
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2. What is Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)?
- Used to identify the environmental, social and economic impacts of a project prior to decision-making.
- Aims to predict environmental impacts at an early stage in project planning and design
- Find ways and means to reduce adverse impacts, shape projects to suit the local environment
- All of these
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3. Who proposed the concept of ‘primitive accumulation’?
- Philip Lake
- Karl Marx
- E.R. Roe Thompson
- Alfred Lothar Wegener
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4. Where is the Sariska Tiger Reserve situated?
- Madhya Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh
- Rajasthan
- Kerala
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5. What is the hypothesis behind people’s relocation from PAs (Protected Areas)?
- Human use of their resources causes their degradation over time
- People and wildlife cannot coexist
- If natural areas are to be safeguarded, people will have to be removed
- All of these
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6. Who developed the concept of ‘accumulation by dispossession’?
- David Harvey
- Karl Marx
- Max Webber
- None of these
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7. Who has authored the book In Dispossession without Development
- David Harvey
- Michael Levien
- Jim Glassman
- Karl Marx
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8. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act passed in
- 2010
- 2012
- 2013
- 2015
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9. When was the ‘Water Act’ implemented in India?
- 1974
- 1969
- 1980
- 1985
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10. Air prevention and control of pollution act was implemented in
- 1981
- 1995
- 2000
- 2010
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