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?

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

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

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What does the concept of 'industrial symbiosis' involve?

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

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

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

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

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Purpose of hierarchical classification of sustainability terms?

To promote a clearer and more accessible understanding of sustainability concepts.

What is 'Degradation of resources'?

Destruction or depletion of natural resources, hindering long-term environmental health.

Why specify the meaning of sustainability terms?

To increase the recognition and application of sustainability terms by eliminating confusion.

What is commensalism?

A biological interaction where one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.

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Focus of sustainability sub-systems?

Implementing strategies and initiatives aimed at achieving sustainable development goals.

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Green bonds

Financial instruments used to fund environmental projects.

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What is 'industrial symbiosis'?

Collaborative resource sharing for mutual economic, social, and environmental advantages.

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Main focus of 'responsible care'?

Environmental management.

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

Reducing waste production.

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Key principle of sustainable development?

Balancing the fulfillment of present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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