Module 5 – Flashcard

Environmental policy aims to

The primary role of the United Nations is to

Decisions rendered by the courts make up a body of law known as

Enforcement and elaboration of statutory law is given to

Statutory laws are passed by

The judicial system is important for environmental policy because

Lobbying, legal action and campaign funding are all means used by /to influence governmental environmental policies.

The UNEP

Robert Constanza and his colleagues have shown that ________. A) ecosystems services cannot be assigned monetary values because they are external B) the value of ecosystem services is more than $48 trillion in 2013 dollars C) NAFTA has had environmental benefits worth $2.7 billion in 2011 D) ecosystem services are valued at less than 0.5% of the U.S. GDPE) nutrient cycling is the least valuable of ecosystem services

A distinguishing feature of ecological economics is the concept of ________. A) steady-state economies that, like natural systems, neither grow nor shrink B) cost-benefit analysis C) greenwashing to increase public acceptance of products D) the only healthy economy is one that is growing E) environmental damage and also environmental benefits are external

Ethics is

Antrhocentrism denies, overlooks or devalues the notion that nonhuman things have ____________.

With Biocentrism they value the overall impact impact on living things. But do they value everything equal or sOME THINGS MORE THAN OTHERS

Environmental impact has been considered ethically since what year in the 1900s?