Air pollution from automobile exhausts, and water pollution steel plants are examples of ?
A. external economies
B. negative externalities
C. internal spillover
D. social distortion
A. external economies
B. negative externalities
C. internal spillover
D. social distortion
A. capital accumulation
B. common property resources
C. non-producible
D. output
Land and natural resources are considered ? Read More »
Economics Mcqs, Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development A. also known as index of Sustainable Economic Welfare per capita
B. GDP plus resource depletion and environmental cost
C. resource depletion and environmental cost divided by GDP per capita
D. increasing from 1976 to 2000
The Genuine Progress indicator is ? Read More »
Economics Mcqs, Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development A. attains the global optimal level of common property resource
B. relies on internationally tradable emission permits
C. minimizes free riders of public goods
D. reduces ozone depletion through the cutting of chlorofluorocarbon production
The Montreal Protocal, signed in 1987 and strengthened in 1990 ? Read More »
Economics Mcqs, Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development A. includes genetic species ecosystem and functional diversities
B. refers to diversifying earth’s nonrenewable resource
C. refers to reconstruction of tropical rainforests
D. refers to biological effects on commercial plantation
A. natural resource that cannot be reproduced in the future if we fail to preserve them now
B. obtaining intellectual property rights for products
C. natural extinction of various species in DCs
D. industrialization replacing agriculture in LDCs
Irreversibility refers to ? Read More »
Economics Mcqs, Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development I- leads to localized flooding
II- reduces sustainable logging potential
III- reduces watershed stability
IV augments carbon restoration provided by forest
A. I and II only
B. III and IV only
C. I, II and III only
D. I, II , III and IV only
A. markets distortions
B. defective economic policies
C. inadequate property
D. the expansion of capitalism
A. Trade deficit
B. Blind river disease
C. Dutch disease
D. Economic turmoil
A. external diseconomies
B. marginal damage
C. public goods
D. resource curse
Negative externality is also known as ? Read More »
Economics Mcqs, Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development