Future Cities Environmental Design Lecture 1 Quiz
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What is the purpose of developing a hierarchical classification and relationship of the terms related to sustainability?

  • To create confusion and ambiguity
  • To achieve better and easier understanding (correct)
  • To complicate the communication of sustainability concepts
  • To ensure that terms are not widely known and used
  • Which of the following is not a principle related to environmental sustainability?

  • Recycling, reuse, repair
  • Minimization of resource usage
  • Degradation of resources (correct)
  • Renewable resources
  • What is the importance of making terms specific and defining what they are in the context of sustainability?

  • To create confusion and misinterpretation
  • To increase ambiguity and misunderstanding
  • To make terms more known and used, and get rid of ambiguity (correct)
  • To discourage the usage of specific terms
  • In the ecological context, what refers to a natural system involving competition, predatory relationships, and mutualism?

    <p>Commensalism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of sub-systems in the context of sustainability?

    <p>Implementing strategies for sustainable development</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT an approach to environmental sustainability?

    <p>Green bonds</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the concept of 'industrial symbiosis' involve?

    <p>Mutual benefits among enterprises, employees, and community</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main focus of 'responsible care' in the context of sustainability?

    <p>Environmental management</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do 'cleaner production' and 'eco-design' have in common as environmental approaches?

    <p>Minimization of waste generation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a key principle of sustainable development?

    <p>Meeting the needs of current and future generations</p> Signup and view all the answers

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