Unit 7

"Who founded the Green Belt Movement?"

"Wangari Maathai"

"On what date was the Green Belt Movement founded?"

"5th June 1977"

"In which country was the Green Belt Movement founded?"

"Kenya"

"What early feminist environmental movement occurred in Rajasthan in the 1700s?"

"Bishnoi movement"

"What was one of the first textually recognized environmental movements inspired by women in India?"

"Chipko movement"

"Who led the NGO that organized the Chipko movement?"

"Chandi Prasad Bhatt"

"Who coined the Chipko slogan 'ecology is permanent economy'?"

"Sundarlal Bahuguna"

"What is the Chipko movement's equivalent in the southern state of Karnataka called?"

"Appiko"

"Which Indian scholar critiques ecofeminism as too essentialist

proposing 'feminist environmentalism' instead?"

"What is the title of Bina Agarwal's classic 1994 work arguing for women's land rights?"

"A Field of One's Own"

"Which sociologist studied the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and wrote 'In the Belly of the River'?"

"Amita Baviskar"

"What term did Amita Baviskar use for middle-class environmental concerns in urban India?"

"Environmentalism of the Bourgeoisie"

"Who first explicitly used the term 'environmental sociology' in a 1971 book?"

"Samuel Klausner"

"What paradigm

criticized by Dunlap and Catton

"What new paradigm did Dunlap and Catton suggest to replace HEP?"

"New Ecological Paradigm (NEP)"

"Who developed the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP)?"

"Riley Dunlap & William Catton"

"Who developed the Ecological Modernisation Theory (EMT)?"

"Joseph Huber"

"Which German soil scientist

who outlined 'metabolic exchange'

"What term

discussed by Marx

"Which scholar

according to the text

"Which classical sociologist discussed the transition from 'mechanical' to 'organic' solidarity?"

"Durkheim"

"Which classical sociologist would likely have rejected the environment as a determining structure

focusing on humans as the only social reality?"

"What is the study of folk or primitive medicine called?"

"Ethnomedicine"

"Who propagated ecological theory in medical anthropology in the late 1960s/early 1970s?"

"Alexander Alland"

"Who used the term 'political ecology' in 1979?"

"Eric Wolf"

"Which scholar's study in Rajasthan found that the deity 'Mata' is believed to cause pox?"

"Veena Bhasin"

"What term describes the appropriation of indigenous knowledge without consent or benefit-sharing?"

"Biopiracy"

"What does the acronym TEK stand for?"

"Traditional Ecological Knowledge"

"Which two ancient Indian herbalists are mentioned as describing herbs used in Ayurveda?"

"Charaka and Sushruta"

"In what year did India form the Ministry of AYUSH?"

"2014"

"The Siddha system of medicine is entirely in which language?"

"Tamil"

"Where is the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa (NISR) located?"

"Leh"

"What is the Amchi System of medicine

practiced in the Himalayas

"What repository did the Indian government set up in 2001 to fight biopiracy?"

"Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)"

"Who coined the term 'biopiracy'?"

"Pat Mooney"

"Which activist-scholar

mentioned in the text

"Which English historian noted four separate definitions of 'shamanism'?"

"Ronald Hutton"

"In what year was the UN Conference on 'Human Environment' held in Stockholm?"

"1972"

"What was the title of the 1987 report by the Brundtland Commission?"

"Our Common Future"

"In what year was the 'Earth Summit' held?"

"1992"

"Who wrote the influential environmental science book 'Silent Spring' (1962)?"

"Rachel Carson"

"'Silent Spring' documented the adverse environmental effects of what?"

"pesticides"

"Who published the 1974 research finding that CFCs can destroy ozone molecules?"

"Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina"

"The discovery about CFCs led to the signing of which 1987 international agreement?"

"Montreal Protocol"

"Who identified the three strands of environmentalism in India (Crusading Gandhian

Appropriate Technology

"What does GI stand for

as in 'GI tag'?"

"What was the first GI tagged product in India?"

"Darjeeling tea"

"What does the acronym PESA (enacted in 1996) stand for?"

"Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act"

"PESA ensures self-governance for people in areas identified by which Schedule of the Constitution?"

"Fifth Schedule"