Exam 24: Politics, Environment, and Sustainability

The Natural Resources Defense Council is working to protect the Canadian spirit bear whose places to hibernate are threatened by which of the following?

Once a law has been passed and funded, the appropriate department or agency must first develop regulations and rules for implementing it.

The government of the United States manages what percentage of the country's land?

Four hundred thousand miles of roads have been cut through national forests at taxpayer expense to facilitate logging.

The public lands with the most restrictions on how they can be used are

In the United States, the three branches of government serve what important purpose?

Concerned citizens have persuaded Congress to enact important environmental and resource protection laws, including all of the following, except

One of the most important trends influencing environmental decisions and policies is the growing influence of ____________________.

Decisions made by various courts make up a body of law known as ____________________.

Groups that advocate passing laws favorable to their causes and repealing laws unfavorable to their positions are called ____________________.

Recreation, hunting, and fishing in national forests add ten times __________ money to the national economy than does extraction of timber and other resources.

Which of the following activities would not be permitted in a National Wildlife Refuge?

Oil and gas drilling are allowed in National Parks.

____________________is a formal effort, somewhat similar to a trial, to resolve a dispute.

Using government subsidies to pay for inefficient energy alternatives is a violation of the ____________________ principle.

Most U.S.citizens do not realize that since 2000 efforts to weaken environmental laws and regulations have escalated and been successful.

The legal concept of ____________________ occurs when people use their property in a way that causes annoyance or injury to others.

How much money would be required, on an annual basis, for the world to meet basic social and health goals and to provide environmental security?

Explain the function of a SLAPP.Do you think this is an appropriate way to influence persons to not sue a company? Is there a balance that must be maintained, where neither companies nor citizens should be harassed by the other?

Scarcity of resources can be correlated to the spread of civil violence and dysfunction in government, which can cause countries to become ____________________.