Environmental Law and Policy Final Exam

Law often furthers policy.

• True

• False

Policy is enforceable.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a branch of environmental law?

• Conservation law

• None of the above

• Natural resources law

• Pollution Law

The presevation perspective is the scientific approach to resource management that ensures that there will be adequate raw materials of the generations that will follow the current one.

• True

• False

The conservation perspective is the desire to leave things in a natural state that refelets the absence of human impact.

• True

• False

Corporations have as much legal standing as individuals.

• True

• False

Which of the following is a defining feature of environmental policy, characterized by lack of certainty in science.  

• Precautionary Principle

• Scientific Uncertainity

• Market Failures

• Tragedy of the Commons

Which of the following says use caution in the face of significant but uncertain threats. 

• Precautionary principle

• Scientific uncertainity

• Market failures

• Intergenerational Equity

Which one of the following is ecocentric focused, ecosystem focused, and focuses on how losing a species will affect people. 

• Environmental rights

• Anthropocentric rights

• Rights of nature movement

• None of the above

Market failures is misaligned incentives and reward structures.

• True

• False