Introduction to Environmental Economics
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ECP 3302 (Online), Summer 2011 Introduction to Environmental Economics Quiz 2 (Due June 22)
Instructions: Write your name and panther id on top and fill out the blanks with appropriate word/words based on your readings from corresponding chapters and turn it in the drop-box in Blackboard. The total points in this quiz are 50, each question is worth of 2 points.
Chapter 6 1. “Providing the typical person alive in the future with a standard of living, including both material and environmental welfare, at least as high as that enjoyed by the typical person today” is one way to define sustainability. 2. GDP is a poor measure of sustainability because it: 1) fails to include the values of nonmarket production 2) fails to subtract the costs of growth 3) fails to account for the depreciation of the capital used up in production 4) reflects the experience of the “average” rather than the “typical” person 3. NNW is defined as: GDP+non-market output – exernality costs- clean-up costs- depreciation of natural capital- depreciation of created capital. 4. Neoclassical economists discount the future net benefits of investing in environmental protection projects to reflect the opportunity cost of the foregone earnings from alternative investments. 5. The higher the discount rate, the lower the value of benefits received in the future.. Chapter 7 6. The Malthusian Population Trap shows that as population grows geometrically and the food supply increases only arithemetically, available food per person declines, providing a natural check on further population growth. 7. The Green Revolution that followed WWII centered around new, hybrid forms of wheat, rice, and corn seeds that produced much higher yields than conventional seeds. 8. In the ecological view, as opposed to the neoclassical view, sustainability requires handing down to future generations local and global ecosystems that largely resemble our own. 9. Advocates of the safe minimum standard argue
Panther ID:
ECP 3302 (Online), Summer 2011 Introduction to Environmental Economics Quiz 2 (Due June 22)
Instructions: Write your name and panther id on top and fill out the blanks with appropriate word/words based on your readings from corresponding chapters and turn it in the drop-box in Blackboard. The total points in this quiz are 50, each question is worth of 2 points.
Chapter 6 1. “Providing the typical person alive in the future with a standard of living, including both material and environmental welfare, at least as high as that enjoyed by the typical person today” is one way to define sustainability. 2. GDP is a poor measure of sustainability because it: 1) fails to include the values of nonmarket production 2) fails to subtract the costs of growth 3) fails to account for the depreciation of the capital used up in production 4) reflects the experience of the “average” rather than the “typical” person 3. NNW is defined as: GDP+non-market output – exernality costs- clean-up costs- depreciation of natural capital- depreciation of created capital. 4. Neoclassical economists discount the future net benefits of investing in environmental protection projects to reflect the opportunity cost of the foregone earnings from alternative investments. 5. The higher the discount rate, the lower the value of benefits received in the future.. Chapter 7 6. The Malthusian Population Trap shows that as population grows geometrically and the food supply increases only arithemetically, available food per person declines, providing a natural check on further population growth. 7. The Green Revolution that followed WWII centered around new, hybrid forms of wheat, rice, and corn seeds that produced much higher yields than conventional seeds. 8. In the ecological view, as opposed to the neoclassical view, sustainability requires handing down to future generations local and global ecosystems that largely resemble our own. 9. Advocates of the safe minimum standard argue