Global Warming
Documentaries
India-Bangladesh
Water
Winners and Losers
100
The presence of this naturally occurring gas is indicative of the anthropogenic contribution to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
This district of Bangladesh is in the southwest and the home of a massive delta that is adjusting to climate change.
What is the Khulna District?
100
This the largest river besides the Amazon.
What is the Ganges?
100
This region of the third-world has the lowest usage of water at fewer than 20 Liters per day.
What is sub-saharan Africa?
100
In development, this term, often associated with women and development, is regarded as a key element of creating equity in decision making and central to reducing vulnerability?
What is empowerment?
200
This term, coined in the 1940s, is what happens when drought conditions exacerbate the human effects of land degradation in semi-arid/arid lands.
What is desertification?
200
This spanish energy company took over electric services in Nicaragua thanks to pressure from the IMF.
What is Union Finoza?
200
Several differences exist between dams and barrages, name one of them?
What are doors, and shorter but longer?
200
These three companies dominate the market for privatized water.
What are Veolia, Suez and RWE Thames
200
According to O'Brien and Leichenko, studies on climate change involving money producer more winners as opposed to this focus which producers more losers.
What are people?
300
McGregor mentions these risk-spreading strategies for helping farmers cope with a major effect of global warming, changing rainfall patterns.
What are diversification of food production involving livestock, the use of different seeds with shorter growing seasons, a flexible, more opportunistic approach to sowing and the use of more drought resistant seeds.
300
In Bangladesh, salinity threatens these three benchmarks of progress.
What is development, health security and poverty reduction targets?
300
These are the immediate effects of the implementation of the Farakka Barrage in 1971.
What are declines in wate rflow, agricultural collapse in delta south of barrage, soured political relations between India and Bangladesh, nationalistic rhetoric on both sides over wh owns the water, indian imperialism through the control of water.
300
Name three of the five stakeholders of water resources management
What are governments, NGOs, citizens/society, corporations and nature/environment?
300
Developing countries are considered to be more vulnerable to climate change due to this series of factors.
What are high reliance on natural resources, limited ability to adapt financially and institutionally, low per capita GDP, high poverty and a lack of safety nets.
400
These are four issues to explore in international politics and relations with regards to climate change.
What are responsibility, whose problem, how the problem is represented and political implications of problems?
400
These two Latin American countries have resisted international pressure to privatize their utilities, which remain public to this day.
What are Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic
400
The Farakka barrage has offset the delicate balance of this world heritage site. Hint: too much salinity
What is the Mangrove ecosystem?
400
Around 2.5 percent of the water on earth is fresh water. Where is most of this water "locked up?"
What are glaciers?
400
This theory on the winners and losers of development justifies liberalization and says even the "losers" end up benefitting from an overall improved society.
What is utilitarianism?
500
These two trends in North-South relations have been linked to the perpetuation of global warming.
What are green conditionality and environmental colonialism?
500
This suggestion from one of the Nicaraguans interviewed would create jobs and at the same time, distribute clean water.
What is a hydro-electric field?
500
The 1996 Ganges Water treaty is missing the following provisions.
What are data sharing on water flow, an overall lack of water sharing and "not good from an ecological standpoint."
500
Dirty water deaths kill more children per year than AIDS and include several water-borne diseases.
What are cholera, typhoid, diarrhea and polio?
500
Vandana Shiva states in "Defending the Commons," the following three vital things LDCs should implement to deter the privatization of water.
What are people doing their homework, communities fighting against centralization of water, and bringing the issue of consolidation to the forefront?
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