Environmental Management Quiz 1

What is the main purpose of carbon management activities?

• Reducing the amount of emissions

• Ignoring the emissions

• Increasing the amount of emissions

• Recording and optimization of emissions

What are the driving forces of soil degradation?

• Global warming, sea-level variation, drought, and earth processes

• Vulnerability of soils to degradation, physical environmental changes and human activities

• Reduction in carbon and decline in soil biodiversity

• Preventing carbon emissions into the atmosphere and disposing of it in stable reservoirs

What are the components of comprehensive disaster management?

• Collection, treatment and disposal

• Water quality and quantity, water uses, strategy to implement the management policy

• Mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

• Prevention, recycling, treatment and disposal

What are the main strategies in solid waste management?

• Collection, treatment and disposal

• Water quality and quantity, water uses, strategy to implement the management policy

• Vulnerability of soils to degradation, physical environmental changes and human activities

• Prevention, recycling, treatment and disposal

What are the three constituents and interrelated aspects of wastewater management?

• Prevention, recycling, treatment and disposal

• Mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

• Water quality and quantity, water uses, strategy to implement the management policy

• Collection, treatment and disposal

What is the first dimension of integrated water management (IWM)?

• Water quality and quantity

• Water uses

• Changing needs and objectives

• Strategy to implement the well-defined management policy

What does sustainable transportation aim at promoting?

• Determining and analyzing sustainability indicators for the current and possible alternative transportation systems

• All of the above

• Reducing resource inputs, waste outputs and minimizing transportation’s often deleterious effects on the public realm

• Better and healthier ways of meeting individual and community needs

What are the characteristics identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for hazardous waste?

• Ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, toxicity

• Vulnerability of soils to degradation, physical environmental changes and human activities

• Mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

• Water quality and quantity, water uses, strategy to implement the management policy

What is the main catalyst for energy management?

• Mitigating the impacts of energy generation and supply

• Growing demand for energy and the constraints in energy supply

• Global warming and ozone layer depletion

• Water quality and quantity, water uses, strategy to implement the management policy

What is the second dimension of integrated water management (IWM)?

• Strategy to implement the well-defined management policy

• Water uses

• Changing needs and objectives

• Water quality and quantity