Chapter 10: Towards Sustainable Development?

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. How did the Colonial Project promote development?

a. through an inter-state consensus, with movements for decolonization and the formation of the United Nations

b. facilitating the rise of industrial capitalism based on the exploitation of non-European lands and peoples

c. strong welfare and labor organization under colonial rule

d. a neoliberal counter-revolution against the limitations of economic nationalism cum welfare state politic

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ingredients of Project Coherence

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. How did the Development Project promote development?

a. through an inter-state consensus, with movements for decolonization and the formation of the United Nations

b. facilitating the rise of industrial capitalism based on the exploitation of non-European lands and peoples

c. strong welfare and labor organization under colonial rule

d. a neoliberal counter-revolution against the limitations of economic nationalism cum welfare state politic

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ingredients of Project Coherence

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. How did the Globalization Project promote development?

a. through an inter-state consensus, with movements for decolonization and the formation of the United Nations

b. facilitating the rise of industrial capitalism based on the exploitation of non-European lands and peoples

c. strong welfare and labor organization under colonial rule

d. a neoliberal counter-revolution against the limitations of economic nationalism cum welfare state politic

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ingredients of Project Coherence

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. All of the following are reasons why development plans for sustainability are difficult to implement, EXCEPT ______.

a. the rich and the poor relentlessly pursue separate national interests

b. sustainability requires active embedding of economic activity in restorative ecological processes

c. values other than price must be incorporated into the development equation

d. sustainability produces vastly differing results for the environment, making it semi-reliable

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What is appropriate to these times?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Degrowth economics is designed to ______.

a. counter prevailing economic tendency to equate unbridled growth with development

b. offer a less fashionable alternative to development

c. counter neoliberalism with small-scale development

d. support the belief that bigger is always better

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: De-growth Economics

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Degrowth economic movements are spreading in all of the following countries except ______.

a. Italy

b. Spain

c. Canada

d. Norway

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: De-growth Economics

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The Second International Conference on Degrowth advanced a series of practical proposals and concluded that degrowth must ______.

a. originate in the rich countries

b. occur in all countries at the same time

c. occur in all countries but at the varying times

d. originate in the developing countries

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: De-growth Economics

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. All of the following countries are experimenting with Universal Basic Income, EXCEPT ______.

a. China

b. Kenya

c. Iran

d. Kazakhstan

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Universal Basic Income

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. A woman in southern India who lacks access to clean water, has limited access to healthcare, occasionally uses seeds as currency, and does not receive Universal Basic Income, would fall into what category?

a. ecologically safe

b. the Doughnut’s center

c. lower middle class

d. environmentally conscious

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Retheorizing Economics

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. Oxford University economist Kate Raworth’s model of “doughnut economics” means that the people in the ring are in a ______ and the people in the hole are ______.

a. centralized mindset for national economics; active participants in shaping the global economy.

b. crisis of falling short on life’s essentials; in a ecologically safe and socially just space

c. group of active participants shaping the global economy; centrally focused on national economics

d. ecologically safe and socially just space; falling short on life’s essentials

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Retheorizing Economics

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. All of the following are steps the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems proposed to rebuild legitimacy into the World Food Summit, EXCEPT ______.

a. reintroduce successful business-led solutions

b. turn the summit into an inclusive “World Food Congress”

c. put agroecology and food sovereignty firmly on the table

d. use the process to re-center food systems governance on the CFS, ending fragmentation of food governance

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Subsidiarity

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Power remains highly centralized in the ______, potentially compromising ______ at national and international scales.

a. governance; non-profit sustainable organizations

b. corporate-financial world; governance

c. governance; the corporate-financial world

d. western sphere; corporate-financial worlds

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conclusion

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What did COVID-19 reveal about development?

a. Isolated communities are less likely to be affected.

b. Public health systems were ill-prepared for an untamed microscopic organism.

c. Industrial expansion (mining, large-scale agriculture) into landscapes causes boundary-crossing.

d. Habitat destruction brings animal microbes into contact with humans.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ingredients of Project Coherence

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. A new “flourishing” economy would include which of the following:

a. gravitation toward service-based activities

b. ecological/green investment

c. government focus on short-term growth imperatives

d. work-time policy to reduce working hours and improve work-life balance

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: De-growth Economics

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. In what ways did COVID-19 highlight the need for a Universal Basic Income (UBI)?

a. the realization that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations could fund UBI

b. the fact that voluntary community work is not sufficient to pay for UBI

c. the need for pandemic-related stimulus payments

d. the belief that welfare cannot exist alongside UBI

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Universal Basic Income

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The principle of decoupling is intended to ______.

a. resist growth with minimal economic risk

b. dispense with short-term growth imperatives

c. refocus on protecting long-term social and ecological goals

d. accelerate the process of decentralization

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: De-growth Economics

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What are the problems that underscore the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?

a. The SDGs were broadened to accommodate gender equity and education but not environmental health.

b. There is a conventional assumption that development is a national process.

c. The SDGs do not address unequal power relations producing and resulting from development.

d. The SDGs’ framework has not improved upon the 2000 Millennium Development Goals.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Sustainable Development Goals

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The subsidiarity system, adopted partially by the EU, is where social and political issues are addressed at the level appropriate to their resolution.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Subsidiarity

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. “Our continued erosion of wild spaces” or boundary-crossing, “has brought us uncomfortably close to animals and plants that harbor diseases that can jump to humans.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What is appropriate to these times?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to replace the Millennium.

Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development Multilateralism

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Current measures of development are not adequate because of their emphasis on nonmarket forces.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Retheorizing Economics

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Degrowth economics is more sustainable than conventional economic growth models because it depends on people making conscious efforts, voluntarily to downsize their economic earnings and consumptions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: De-growth Economics

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Meaningful, and sustainable development is always possible via centralized decision-making at higher levels of governance, which usually involve professional “stakeholders.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Subsidiarity

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. When markets fail, jobs disappear, and access to goods and services contracts, protective impulses emerge, demanding public security and oversight during global economic and health crises.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Paradigmatic alternatives

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. A national waste company with government contracts wants to create a new landfill two miles from Indigenous territory. A water source for the community runs between the edge of the territory and where the landfill would begin. Local protests and a lawsuit forced the company to put their plans on hold. A subsidiarity system would be more effective than unbiased remote decision-makers in this dispute.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Subsidiarity

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. Commodifying ecosystem services can achieve sustainable food systems.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Sustainable Development Goals

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. Briefly explain the need for a subsidiarity system and it’s intended result.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Subsidiarity

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. How can Universal Basic Income (UBI) be a response to inequality?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Universal Basic Income

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain the two key problems that underscore the Sustainable Development Goals.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Universal Basic Income

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Karl Polanyi states that the United States is experiencing a disembodiment of market relations from society. Explain.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The double movement of our era of global development

Difficulty Level: Medium