Deck 10: Towards Sustainable Development

Question 1

How did the Colonial Project promote development?

A) through an inter-state consensus, with movements for decolonization and the formation of the United Nations
B) facilitating the rise of industrial capitalism based on the exploitation of non-European lands and peoples
C) strong welfare and labor organization under colonial rule
D) a neoliberal counter-revolution against the limitations of economic nationalism cum welfare state politic

Answer 1

B

Question 2

How did the Development Project promote development?

A) through an inter-state consensus, with movements for decolonization and the formation of the United Nations
B) facilitating the rise of industrial capitalism based on the exploitation of non-European lands and peoples
C) strong welfare and labor organization under colonial rule
D) a neoliberal counter-revolution against the limitations of economic nationalism cum welfare state politic

Answer 2

A

Question 3

How did the Globalization Project promote development?

A) through an inter-state consensus, with movements for decolonization and the formation of the United Nations
B) facilitating the rise of industrial capitalism based on the exploitation of non-European lands and peoples
C) strong welfare and labor organization under colonial rule
D) a neoliberal counter-revolution against the limitations of economic nationalism cum welfare state politic

Answer 3

D

Question 4

All of the following are reasons why development plans for sustainability are difficult to implement, EXCEPT ______.

A) the rich and the poor relentlessly pursue separate national interests
B) sustainability requires active embedding of economic activity in restorative ecological processes
C) values other than price must be incorporated into the development equation
D) sustainability produces vastly differing results for the environment, making it semi-reliable

Question 5

Degrowth economics is designed to ______.

A) counter prevailing economic tendency to equate unbridled growth with development
B) offer a less fashionable alternative to development
C) counter neoliberalism with small-scale development
D) support the belief that bigger is always better

Question 6

Degrowth economic movements are spreading in all of the following countries except ______.

A) Italy
B) Spain
C) Canada
D) Norway

Question 7

The Second International Conference on Degrowth advanced a series of practical proposals and concluded that degrowth must ______.

A) originate in the rich countries
B) occur in all countries at the same time
C) occur in all countries but at the varying times
D) originate in the developing countries

Question 8

All of the following countries are experimenting with Universal Basic Income, EXCEPT ______.

A) China
B) Kenya
C) Iran
D) Kazakhstan

Question 9

A woman in southern India who lacks access to clean water, has limited access to healthcare, occasionally uses seeds as currency, and does not receive Universal Basic Income, would fall into what category?

A) ecologically safe
B) the Doughnut's center
C) lower middle class
D) environmentally conscious

Question 10

Oxford University economist Kate Raworth's model of "doughnut economics" means that the people in the ring are in a ______ and the people in the hole are ______.

A) centralized mindset for national economics; active participants in shaping the global economy.
B) crisis of falling short on life's essentials; in a ecologically safe and socially just space
C) group of active participants shaping the global economy; centrally focused on national economics
D) ecologically safe and socially just space; falling short on life's essentials

Question 11

All of the following are steps the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems proposed to rebuild legitimacy into the World Food Summit, EXCEPT ______.

A) reintroduce successful business-led solutions
B) turn the summit into an inclusive "World Food Congress"
C) put agroecology and food sovereignty firmly on the table
D) use the process to re-center food systems governance on the CFS, ending fragmentation of food governance

Question 12

Power remains highly centralized in the ______, potentially compromising ______ at national and international scales.

A) governance; non-profit sustainable organizations
B) corporate-financial world; governance
C) governance; the corporate-financial world
D) western sphere; corporate-financial worlds

Question 13

What did COVID-19 reveal about development?

A) Isolated communities are less likely to be affected.
B) Public health systems were ill-prepared for an untamed microscopic organism.
C) Industrial expansion (mining, large-scale agriculture) into landscapes causes boundary-crossing.
D) Habitat destruction brings animal microbes into contact with humans.

Question 14

A new "flourishing" economy would include which of the following:

A) gravitation toward service-based activities
B) ecological/green investment
C) government focus on short-term growth imperatives
D) work-time policy to reduce working hours and improve work-life balance

Question 15

In what ways did COVID-19 highlight the need for a Universal Basic Income (UBI)?

A) the realization that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations could fund UBI
B) the fact that voluntary community work is not sufficient to pay for UBI
C) the need for pandemic-related stimulus payments
D) the belief that welfare cannot exist alongside UBI

Question 16

The principle of decoupling is intended to ______.

A) resist growth with minimal economic risk
B) dispense with short-term growth imperatives
C) refocus on protecting long-term social and ecological goals
D) accelerate the process of decentralization

Question 17

What are the problems that underscore the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

A) The SDGs were broadened to accommodate gender equity and education but not environmental health.
B) There is a conventional assumption that development is a national process.
C) The SDGs do not address unequal power relations producing and resulting from development.
D) The SDGs' framework has not improved upon the 2000 Millennium Development Goals.

Question 18

The subsidiarity system, adopted partially by the EU, is where social and political issues are addressed at the level appropriate to their resolution.

Question 19

"Our continued erosion of wild spaces" or boundary-crossing, "has brought us uncomfortably close to animals and plants that harbor diseases that can jump to humans."

Question 20

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to replace the Millennium.
Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000.

Question 21

Current measures of development are not adequate because of their emphasis on nonmarket forces.

Question 22

Degrowth economics is more sustainable than conventional economic growth models because it depends on people making conscious efforts, voluntarily to downsize their economic earnings and consumptions.

Question 23

Meaningful, and sustainable development is always possible via centralized decision-making at higher levels of governance, which usually involve professional "stakeholders."

Question 24

When markets fail, jobs disappear, and access to goods and services contracts, protective impulses emerge, demanding public security and oversight during global economic and health crises.

Question 25

A national waste company with government contracts wants to create a new landfill two miles from Indigenous territory. A water source for the community runs between the edge of the territory and where the landfill would begin. Local protests and a lawsuit forced the company to put their plans on hold. A subsidiarity system would be more effective than unbiased remote decision-makers in this dispute.

Question 26

Commodifying ecosystem services can achieve sustainable food systems.

Question 27

Briefly explain the need for a subsidiarity system and it's intended result.

Question 28

How can Universal Basic Income (UBI) be a response to inequality?

Question 29

Explain the two key problems that underscore the Sustainable Development Goals.

Question 30

Karl Polanyi states that the United States is experiencing a disembodiment of market relations from society. Explain.