Deck 11: Social Entrepreneurship and Environmental Sustainability

Question 1

How did the number of entrepreneurs who are focused on the environmental aspects of social entrepreneurship develop over the past several years?

A) Disappear
B) Decrease
C) Stabilize
D) Increase

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What does the Tragedy of the Commons refer to?

A) To the depletion of a shared resource by individuals acting independently and rationally, according to one's self-interest, despite knowing that abusing the common resource is contrary to those individuals' long-term, best interests.
B) To the depletion of a shared resource by individuals acting independently and rationally, according to the common interest, despite knowing that abusing the common resource is contrary to those individuals' long-term, best interests.
C) To the depletion of a shared resource by individuals acting independently and rationally, according to one's self-interest, despite knowing that abusing the common resource is contrary to those individuals' short-term, best interests.
D) To the depletion of a shared resource by individuals acting independently and rationally, according to the common interest, despite knowing that abusing the common resource is contrary to those individuals' short-term, best interests.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Tragedy is often applied to a discussion of environmental issues and is a model for a great variety of society's resource-based problems. Which is not an example of an environmental issue?

A) Over-irrigation
B) Habitat destruction
C) Over-fishing
D) Civil wars

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What is the problem of the "Free Rider"?

A) People not having access to transport
B) Public transport without tickets
C) An individual who benefits from another's work while paying for it.
D) An individual who benefits from another's work without paying for it.

Question 5

Which practical way(s) is (are) there to try to overcome any Free Rider problem?

A) Compulsory participation (taxation)
B) Linking the public good a desirable private good (getting people to pay voluntarily)
C) Both the answers a and b
D) None the answers of a and b

Question 6

How is the compulsory participation through emissions trading described?

A) "Carbon-trading"
B) "Tax-emissions"
C) "Tax-trading"
D) "Cap-and-trade"

Question 7

A carbon tax is a form of Pigouvian tax, but what is a Pigouvian tax?

A) A levy on activities that generate negative social costs
B) A bonus on activities that generate negative social costs
C) A levy on activities that generate positive social costs
D) A bonus on activities that generate positive social costs

Question 8

How can social entrepreneurs resolve the Free Rider problem?

A) By using innovative methods to bring solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons to market
B) To have the consumer pay for any social costs
C) By using innovative methods to bring solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons to market and have the consumer pay for any social costs
D) By using innovative methods to bring solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons to market but without having the consumer pay for any social costs

Question 9

What does sSWOT mean in this chapter?

A) Sustainability SWOT
B) Social SWOT
C) Society SWOT
D) Security SWOT

Question 10

Which step/question is part of the sSWOT analysis?

A) What can we do to implement our new environmental idea, product/service, process in the near term?
B) What can we do to implement our new environmental idea, product/service, process in the mid term?
C) What can we do to implement our new environmental idea, product/service, process in the long term?
D) What can we do to implement our new environmental idea, product/service, process in the near term, mid term and long term?

Question 11

Over the past several years, there has been an increase entrepreneurs who are focused on the environmental aspects of social entrepreneurship develop.

Question 12

It is easy to quantify how many entrepreneurs are focused on the environmental aspects of social entrepreneurship.

Question 13

The Tragedy of the Commons refers the depletion of a shared resource by individuals acting independently and rationally, according to one's self-interest, despite knowing that abusing the common resource is contrary to those individuals' long-term, best interests.

Question 14

Traffic congestion is not an example of society's current resource-based problems.

Question 15

The problem of the "Free Rider" refers to an individual who does not benefit from another's work without paying for it.

Question 16

A tax that is levied on the carbon content of fuels that are used is not an example of a Pigouvian tax.

Question 17

Linking the public good to a compulsory participation is a practical way to try to overcome any Free Rider problem.

Question 18

Cap-and-trade is another term for emissions trading.

Question 19

Social entrepreneurs can resolve the Free Rider problem by using innovative methods to bring solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons to market and have the consumer pay for any social costs

Question 20

A Sustainability SWOT (sSWOT) can replace a social enterprise to push the boundaries for their organization.

Question 21

What could be a plausible number of "green" entrepreneurs in the United States?

Question 22

What does the Tragedy of Commons refer to?

Question 23

What is the problem of the "Free Rider"?

Question 24

Mention two general practical ways to try to overcome any Free Rider problem.

Question 25

Which eight steps and questions may you want to consider in a sSWOT analysis?

Question 26

According to you, is the use of a Pigouvian tax the best way to overcome a Free Rider problem? Why (not)?

Question 27

Which of the eight steps and questions in the sSWOT analysis do you consider to be the most important one? Explain your answer.

Question 28

Check Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action ('take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts'). Defend the proposition that social entrepreneurship is the best way to realize this goal.