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Flashcards by Chantelle Lin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chantelle Lin
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| Question | Answer |
| When is the world population projected to reach 9 billion | 2050 |
| how many of the 10 hottest years on record occurred between 2000-2010 | 8 |
| what was the response to key Kyoto requirements to reduce ghg emissions? | lack of coordination and implementation |
| when was Kyoto | adopted by parties to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 97, entered into force 2005 |
| 4 challenges for today's public policy makers (Cartwright) | speed, scale, complexity, impact |
| define neoliberalism | neoliberalism promotes the unrestricted exchange of goods and services to create wealth within a self-regulating global market of demand and supply |
| what indicates that there is a shifting awareness that environmental management is a corporate concern and responsibility? | voluntary codes of conduct, standards (ISO), corporate social responsibility |
| Washington Consensus | a concept and critique introduced by John Williamson in 1989 to explain the dominance of US policies of global capital accumulation that were adopted and enforced through unilateral and multilateral consent and coercion |
| Bretton Woods institutions | IMF, World Bank, charged in 1940 with post-war reconstruction |
| four dimensions of globalization (McGrew) | transboundary activity (extensity), interconnectedness (intensity), faster interactions (velocity), impact over distance |
| Drivers of globalization | capitalist expansion (econ shifts), industrialism, info (techno shifts), less state intervention (political shifts), civic awareness (cultural shifts) |
| how many jobs lost by cod moratorium 92 | 40000 |
| Staples Theory | national economic and social development is built on the generation of national income through the export of raw materials or semi-processed materials. Resource economies cannot command favourable terms of trade because the high-value-added manufactured products, and the accompanying individual employment income and collective sales revenue become lost to the resource producer. Therefore, dependency on resource extraction makes an economy intrinsically vulnerable to shocks because the economy is not diversified. |
| James Bay hydroelectric projects | N. Québec on Cree lands established first modern treaty recognizing indigenous land rights, conceded two decades later that further hydroelectric dvlpmt was unacceptable |
| why was Berger commission watershed in environmental assessment in Canada? | first time Aboriginal communities had any significant input into development and management of ancestral territory. required that a pipeline could only be built after the impacts on northern inhabitants, livelihoods, and environment could be evaluated and found acceptable |
| Mackenzie Valley Five-Year Action Plan | permanently protected 40 million hectares of culturally and ecologically significant land before construction on a gas pipeline |
| Clayoquot Sound | organized protest-> significant in reach of environmental and Aboriginal civil society networks and emergence of first coherent attempts at collaborative forestry management and incorporation of indigenous knowledge. |
| Clayoquot Sound Science Panel (CSSP) | recognized three classes of values: ecological services, specific objects, spiritual and cultural values. issued reports for vision of collaborative forestry management -> main forestry company is indigenous |
| Banff-Bow Valley Task Force | created march 94, 50-year vision emphasizing ecological integrity. wildlife bridges |
| Diavik Diamond Mine | responsibly harvested rare gems |
| Canada/US transboundary water agreement | 100 yrs, IJC |
| Kyoto Protocol (Canada) | (Jean Chrétien) signed 98, ratified 2002. little progress, backed out 2012 |
| beginning of national parks system | 1885 Banff National Park |
| environmental globalization | new spatial arrangements and conservation areas with physical and social networking spaces of activity (Wakatobi National Park), New spatial scales of importance to environmental management (Y2Y), decentralization of environmental governance |
| factors that moved Aboriginals from periphery to core of environmental policy | dissent-permitting society, better political organization, international pressure, legal and constitutional changes |
| Hibernia offshore oil project | Newfoundland 97, fifth largest oil reserve, alternative from cod |
| IDRC | incr focus on envmt, sustainability, participatory dvlpmt, + resource mgmt. 3 main areas of program support: Envmt and natrl resources mgmt, Info and communication techs for dvlpmt, soc and econ equity. relevance- influence policy and practice |
| CIDA | funds collaborative research projects to improve capacity-building through the study of processes and activities that can improve the situation of those less well-off. internships, envmtl initiatives |
| where was NA's first free campus bicycling program | u of Calgary 5005 |
| what Canada has to offer as envmtl and dvlpmt actor | long history of integration in global econ w wealth of natl resources; scholarly and pedagogical activities |
| positives in envmt for Canada | First Nations changing relations, integrated, multiple-use parks mgmt, bilateral mgmt (IJC) |
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