Markets & Commodities
Scarcity of environmental goods and services sets into motion a series of adaptations to rising prices, resulting in increasing resource availability
What is the market response model
A situation in which multiple individuals making decisions in pursuit of their own interests tend to create outcomes that are non-optimal for everyone
What is the Prisoner's Dilemma
What does the acronym CAFO stand for
What is confined animal feeding operations
The characteristic of the Earth's atmosphere, based on the presence of important gases including water vapor and carbon dioxide, to trap and retain heat, leading to temperatures that can sustain life
What is the greenhouse effect
What is succession
A thesis based in neoclassical economics, holding that externalities can be most efficiently controlled through contracts and bargaining between parties
What is the Coase Theorem
This person presented one of the most compelling, persistent, and in some ways problematic arguments linking environment to society through the commons
Who is Garrett Hardin
An ethical theory that posits that the value of a good should be judged solely by its usefulness to society
What is utilitarian
This annual event is taking place in Egypt this year
What is COP 27
Traditional methods of coffee production that integrates coffee plants into forest canopy, leaving many trees present
What is shade grown coffee
The U.S. EPA setting limits on industry for the emission of sulfur dioxide and dividing the total allowable level of pollution into units and distributed to producers, in the form of credits that can be sold, is an example of what
What is cap and trade
This treaty was signed in 1987 resulting in a near global reduction of most CFC's
What is the Montreal Protocol
A U.S. Forest Service chief who was an advocate for conservation
Gifford Pinchot
The school strikes for climate are an example of this
What is collective action
Banana and coffee are an example of this
LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Certified is an example of what
Green certification
This Nobel Prize winner, led a generation of neo-institutionalist scholars who believed that commons are not "free" but instead governed by rules that encourage cooperation
Who is Elinor Ostrom
This land was debated whether it should be created as a large reservoir or a permanent municipal water source
What is Hetch Hetchy Valley
This graphic trend depicts describes the overall trend of a steady upwards curve of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide
What is the Keeling Curve
A concept is which certain type of labor is undervalued but deemed necessary for the formal, cash economy to thrive
What is social reproduction
The company Keurig claiming that their coffee pods are recyclable is an example of what
What is greenwashing
Successful commons management includes the following:
What are boundaries, proportionality, collective choice, monitoring sanctions, conflict resolution, and autonomy
This person wrote is famous for his 1949 essay which states that the human race is dependent on our environment - the lands, plants, animals, and the healthy functioning of our ecosystems
Who is Aldo Leopold
Solar radiation management is an example of what
Geoengineering
Co-ops, barter and trade, DIY, farmer's markets and so much more are examples of this
What are diverse economies