Exam 6: Planning and Management Perspectives

Resource and environmental management will improve if both science-based decision-making and best planning and management approaches are applied.

The most effective units of environmental management are ________.

Environmental justice is generally confined to local matters.

Most people in Canada take an anthropocentric view of nature.

A realistic, credible, and attractive future for a region, community, or group is called ________.

A long-term view for environmental management represents the time span of ________.

Government concerns about debt and deficit reduction often lead to ________ of environmental services.

Land-use decisions can have impacts on ________.

Since the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, many governments have significantly reduced funding of environmental infrastructures and services.

When developing and implementing environmental policy, many governments demonstrate more interest in _______.

Differentiate between ecocentric and technocentric values.

Exceeding environmental thresholds often leads to environmental degradation.

What is environmental justice?

Regarding environment policy development and implementation, many governments do NOT ________.

When developing a "vision," what should one NOT ask?

Since the late 1990s, many governments ________.

Custom-designed solutions are most effective to suit specific environmental management conditions or needs.

The elements considered in the ecosystem approach are ________.

List Slocombe's six core characteristics of the ecosystem approach.

Governments that cite subsidiarity as their motivation for downloading environmental responsibilities are often driven by financial cost-cutting considerations.