FINAL EXAM - SDEV

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1. What does sustainable development study? Be able to choose from a list. (multiple answers) Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 2. What are the limitations of using GDP as a measure of well-being? Be able to choose from a list. (multiple answers) The GDP measures the market value of total production within the country in a given time period, usually a year. 3. What does ‘decoupling’ mean in terms of economic growth and the environment? Is there evidence it is happening quickly enough, for long enough periods, and across all significant environmental indicators? (multiple choice, one answer) 4. (Multiple choice) According to Sachs, based on the disease burdens most common in the developing world, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, what kinds of public health interventions should be done in developing countries? Choose the TOP three (to some extent, all of the following apply to the developing world, but three of them are especially important according to Sachs). 5. The structural adjustment policies that developing countries were required to undergo as a result of borrowing from the IMF and World Bank during the 1980s and 1990s debt crises could best be characterized by which of the following? Choose multiple answers. 6. How were colonized economies and societies reorganized under colonialism? Be able to choose from a list (multiple answers) 7. What is the connection between the status of women and development? Be able to choose from a list (multiple answers)

8. Match the nine planetary boundaries with what they are being threatened by or driven by. (Matching) 9. Why does Sachs think that climate change is the toughest public policy problem humanity has ever faced? Be able to choose from a list (multiple answers) and do not confuse what Sachs says with what other authors that we have read say- they have different opinions! 10. According to McMichael and Weber, what were the main components of the development project and how were they realized? Be able to choose from a list (multiple answers) 11. What do McMichael and Weber mean by the globalization project, i.e. what were the main characteristics? Be able to choose from a list (multiple answers) 12. What, according to McMichael and Weber, are countermovements? (one answer, multiple choice) 13. Which of the following are considered, by McMichael and Weber, as examples of countermovements? Be able to choose from a list (multiple answers) 14. What is food sovereignty? What is the movement pushing for? Choose all accurate statements. (multiple answers) 15. Be able to identify how the globalization project create social crises in the following areas. a. Northern economies ‘hollowing out’ b. Public spending cuts c. Privatization of public services d. Environmental crises

16. Be able to identify (through the matching process) the following terms and examples of those terms from McMichael and Weber: a. Public greening initiatives b. Urban initiatives c. Circular economy d. Transition towns e. The commons f. Rural initiatives 17. Have a clear understanding of what Sachs says about cities, in terms of what is required for sustainable cities, how they can become sustainable, and the environmental challenges they face. Be able to select these issues from a list (multiple answers) 18. For a city to be sustainable according to Sachs, what must it achieve? Be able to identify from a list (multiple answers) 19. Read through the ICCA report. How do indigenous peoples and local communities contribute to a healthy planet? Be able to identify from a list (multiple answers)

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