Unit 1: SD

Which indicator is a measure of economic development?

• GDP per capita

• GNI per capita

• Human Development Index

• Life expectancy

As per Malthus, when population grows beyond food production, standard of living reduces and this eventually leads to:

• Overshoot

• Collapse

• Malthusian Trap

• Malthusian Catastrophe

The ___________school of thought believed that future is not limited by resources but by human's inability to get economic institutions right.

The Club of Rome used this technique to build the Limits to Growth model.

• Population Dynamics

• System Dynamics

• Machine Learning

• Statistical Modelling

The Limits to Growth model considered feedback loops between two aspects - economic activities and pollution.

• True

• False

One criticism of the sustainable development definition given by the Brundtland Report was that it was _______________ i.e., it did not recognise the inherent rights of nature.

_________ occurs when a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment.

Under the standard scenario, the Limits to Growth model predicted that the planet will reach its growth limits in hundred years' time.

• True

• False

At this conference this year, climate finance was at the top of the agenda.

• Bonn Conference

• Glasgow Conference

• COP 28

• Paris Conference

Sustainable development is a path for an economy where utility or real consumption per capita is not declining. Which approach is this?

• Outcome Based

• Capability Based