Deck 2: Sustainable Behavior and Practices

Question 1

Which of the following is not one of the three strategies or instruments to create or encourage sustainable behavior?

A) Changing individual behavior and social norms
B) Using government to pick and choose new energy systems and environmental habits for society
C) Using market prices to encourage rational responses from consumers
D) Using smart or automated technologies to guide human behaviors

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Behavior intention can be influenced by which of the following factors?

A) Attitude
B) Subjective norms
C) Perceived behavioral control
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Norm activation theory suggests that the moral norms of an individual have the ability to influence pro-environmental behavior

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of these actions is not one of the strategies of community-based social marketing?

A) Social diffusion
B) Incentives
C) Television advertising campaigns
D) Communication

Question 5

Consumers who have a sustainable belief system are less likely to have confidence in green product performance

Question 6

Consumers respond to changing prices of goods on a micro-economic scale

Question 7

Which of the following are critiques of sustainability transitions and the MLP?

A) It focuses on a national scale
B) It does not incorporate local institutional and socio-economic processes
C) They are extremely difficult for most people to understand
D) A and B
E) None of the above

Question 8

Four cases of public participation in energy transitions were discussed in Chapter 2. In which country did these cases occur?

A) United States
B) Denmark
C) Brazil
D) United Kingdom

Question 9

The acronym 'TEK' stands for what?

A) Turbulent Eutrophication Killings
B) Trading of Economic Knowledge
C) Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Question 10

Which of these types of knowledge can increase sustainable behavior?

A) Procedural knowledge
B) Social knowledge
C) Declarative knowledge
D) B and C
E) All of the above

Question 11

In general, households are not very important in developing sustainable behavior

Question 12

Which company developed a battery system to store enough solar energy to power a house for a full day?

A) Tesla
B) Google
C) Exxon Mobile
VGeneral Electric (GE)

Question 13

What practices are used to share information for future energy decisions?

A) Household practices
B) Monitoring practices
C) Community interaction practices
D) All of the above

Question 14

The key to linking sustainable behavior to system change is:

A) Hard work ethic
B) Sustain-Ability, or the ability to sustain
C) Abundance of financial capital
D) Lobbying local, state and federal governments

Question 15

Which of the following is not an approach to understanding sustainable consumption and production behavior?

A) Revolutionary approach
B) Reformist approach
C) Reworking approach
D) Reconfiguration approach

Question 16

In the Rasuschmayer et al. (2015) MLP approach, the niche is described as:

A) a field of experimentation used to develop interventions in the regime
B) a medium to discuss why sustainability transitions fail
C) a think tank that criticizes non-renewable energy sources
D) meetings of top business executives to finalize renewable energy generation facilities
E) None of the above

Question 17

Political ecology focuses on narrow contexts and success of technological innovations in order shape sustainable behavior

Question 18

Making the behavior as convenient as possible will increase the chances of success.

Question 19

In the Rasuschmayer et al. (2015) MLP approach, what is the broadest level?

A) Individual
B) Niche
C) Regime

Question 20

Which of the following is not a method of measuring progress towards sustainability-oriented behavior?

A) Surveys
B) Interviews
C) Collaborative focus groups
D) Measuring GHG emissions