Natural Resources and the Environment Toward Sustainable Development

A. the tragedy of commons
B. sustainable development
C. net primary productivity (NPP)
D. the impossibility theorem

A. monopoly
B. entropy
C. industry
D. cartel

A. over fishing
B. smoking in a public place
C. excessive rain
D. common use of public toilets

A. external diseconomies
B. marginal damage
C. public goods
D. resource curse

A. Trade deficit
B. Blind river disease
C. Dutch disease
D. Economic turmoil

A. markets distortions
B. defective economic policies
C. inadequate property
D. the expansion of capitalism

I- leads to localized flooding
II- reduces sustainable logging potential
III- reduces watershed stability
IV augments carbon restoration provided by forest

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

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. 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