Exam 11: Environment and Population

In a 2007 speech at Columbia University,the president of Iran claimed there were no gay people in Iran.This is indicative of __________.

"Sustainable" economic development means development that __________.

The 1992 Earth Summit took place in which country?

Which of the following is characteristic of the beginning of demographic transition?

__________ is an example of one of the most important minerals to industrialized economies.

Why was the U.S.Clean Air Act revised in 1997?

__________ is a type of policy that encourages or forces childbearing and outlaws or limits access to contraception.

Particularly because of industrial pollution,human sewage,and agricultural fertilizers and pesticides,water pollution often crosses borders.

Lake Chad in Africa borders four sovereign states,and each has been drawing on the lake's water for decades,leading to its near depletion.This is a real-world example of __________.

Under harsh poverty,a child's survival is not assured;thus poor people tend to have __________ children.

A(n)__________ in Pakistan was cut short in 2012 after Taliban militants killed health workers whom they claimed were using medicine to carry out a Western plot to sterilize Muslim children.

As early as the late 1980s,states had much more success in negotiating agreements and developing regimes to manage the ozone layer than __________.

__________ are examples of fossil fuels.

Which country has been most reluctant to agree to a treaty calling for specific reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by a certain target date?

Huge amounts of hard currency accumulated in the treasuries of the Middle East oil-exporting countries and reinvested around the world are known as __________.

In the 1980s,the __________ on CFCs was the most important success in international negotiations to protect the global environment to date.

States have used international regimes and IOs to resolve collective __________ problems.

Most developing countries are in the middle of the demographic transition and have rapid population growth.

In the __________,the death rate declined from nearly 30 deaths per thousand people in 1950 to less than 15 since 1990.

There has yet to be a situation in which a state has extended sovereignty to make environmental management a national rather than an international matter.