EVST Final

In risk communication, what approach often leads to more rationally concluded decisions?

Providing information that includes emotional and values-oriented components

According to Locke, the value of any part of nature is determined soley by its usefulness to humans. This is an example of a ___ view of nature.

Utilitarian

According to “We are the Weather”, what is the biggest reason for relative inaction on climate change?

A feeling of powerlessness

In a political economy view of regulations, environmental regulations can be the product of what, in addition to being aimed at sustainability?

Geopolitical struggles to control natural resource production and profits

How did the Marine Stewardship Council historically disadvantage small-scale fishers in poorer nations?

Small-scale fishers didn’t have the connections or capital to begin the certification process

The conceptualization of a landscape as wilderness can be a form of violence because

Turning a landscape into a “wilderness” requires forcibly removing people from lands where they have lived for generations or thousands of years

According to political economy, why did tuna fisheries move from pole and line to purse-seine?

Because more profit could be made with a purse-seine fishing by reducing needed labor and the laborers were expendable

Small-scale fishers that suffer when industrial-scale fishing operations deplete local fisheries are also known as:

Artisinal

The ___ movement seeks to give equal moral standing to animals as is given to all humans, leading to implications for food, medical testing, industry, etc.

Animal Liberation

In the context of John Locke’s work, libertarians believe in the right to acquire, possess, and maintain property. Which of these is NOT considered property by John Locke?

A woman’s right to family planning

The idea that dolphins are worthy of consideration of having rights and protection is a form of ___

Moral extensionism

According to a constructivist view, science is considered to be:

Made in historically specific, socially situated practices

Why are “breeder sows” not given a normal, 5-6 month period after weening her piglets before being impregnated again in our modern food system?

Because a non-pregnant, non-nursing, breeding sow is wasted capital

The dolphin-tuna controversy illustrates what two conflicting types of environmental ethics?

Animal rights and ecological ethics

Which of the following best describes the philosophical branch of ethics?

The study of what is right and wrong in human behavior

The approach to thinking about the wilderness as the product of human work and ideas is called ___

Constructivist

According to the book, which of the following is NOT a component of an environmental discourse?

Factual evidence

Which of the following is NOT a factor arguing against factory farms?

Factory farms require less land than traditional farms

In western thought, humans are generally viewed as having a mandate for dominion over, or stewardship of, the Earth. Both of these attitudes are considered anthropocentric because they are:

Human-centered

A philosophy where ecological concerns should be central to decisions of right and wrong action with regards to nature is ___

Ecocentrism