CASE STUDIES 1
Q. This Southeast Asian country has seen a rapidly growing middle class, projected to reach 95 million people by 2030, thanks to urbanization, rising incomes, and a booming digital economy.
What is Vietnam?
Q. The impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
What is Ecological Footprint?
Q: These economies, like Brazil or India, are rapidly growing and are classified as being between low-income and high-income countries.
A: What are emerging economies?
Q: This is the term for the proportion of incoming solar radiation that is reflected back into space by surfaces like ice and snow.
A: What is albedo?
Q. This Indian megacity struggles with challenges like extreme overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure, and significant income inequality, while also being a major economic hub and a key port city.
What is Mumbai?
Q. Switzerland manages this interconnected system with abundant water resources and hydropower, while the UAE faces challenges due to arid conditions, relying on desalination and imported food to balance its needs.
What is the food- water- energy nexus?
Q. Include solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, and tidal schemes. They are sustainable because there is no depletion of natural capital
What is renewable energy?
Q: The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime is called this.
A: What is the fertility rate?
Q: This international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global warming to below 2°C, with efforts to keep it below 1.5°C.
A: What is the Paris Agreement?
Q. This country has implemented an anti-natalist policy, aimed at limiting population growth where the one-child policy was enforced for decades to curb rapid population increase.
Q. Rising temperatures are disrupting this critical system, as glacier melt alters freshwater availability, impacting hydropower, agriculture, and energy security for millions downstream in Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
Q. The amount of water used to produce goods and services. Provide one example of a product with high water usage.
What is embedded water?
Meat, Chocolate, Clothing etc.
Q: This demographic benefit occurs when a country experiences low dependency ratios and a large, youthful working-age population, boosting economic productivity.
A: What is the demographic dividend?
Q: Governments often encourage industries to offset their emissions by engaging in this system, which allows them to buy and sell carbon credits.
A: What is carbon trading?
Q. This country experienced a significant demographic dividend in the late 20th century, as a large working-age population fueled rapid economic growth, particularly in industries like technology and manufacturing.
What is South Korea?
Q. This landlocked country in Central Asia has seen significant internal migration, with many people moving from rural areas to the capital city, Ulaanbaatar, in search of better economic opportunities and to escape harsh climate conditions.
What is Mongolia?
Q. Refers to the very close links between the water food and energy sectors and the ways changes in one sector have an effect on one or both of the other sectors.
What is the nexus approach?
Q: This ratio, often used to measure the economic burden of the working-age population, compares the number of dependents (young and elderly) to the working-age population, with higher ratios indicating greater strain on social systems.
Q: This controversial approach involves using technology to deliberately manipulate the Earth's climate, for example by increasing cloud reflectivity.
A: What is geo-engineering?
Q. This region within a nation has seen significant displacement due to both environmental factors, like desertification and flooding, as well as ongoing conflict, leading many to migrate in search of safety and resources.
What is Borno, Nigeria?
Q. This ongoing crisis has displaced millions of people, with the majority seeking refuge in neighboring countries and Europe, as a result of a brutal civil war and its humanitarian consequences.
What is the Syrian refugee crisis?
Q. Theory of agricultural intensification which posits that population change drives the intensity of agricultural production
What is Boserup's Theory?
Q: Countries like Japan or Germany, with shrinking populations, often implement this type of policy to encourage more births.
A: What are pro-natalist policies?
Q: This term describes the temporary reduction of solar radiation reaching the Earth, often following a volcanic eruption.
A: What is global dimming?
Q. These two countries face severe climate change impacts, but in different ways: one struggles with rising sea levels threatening its low-lying land, while the other faces existential threats from disappearing islands due to rising ocean levels.
Q. This East Asian country is experiencing a rapidly aging population, leading to labor shortages, increased healthcare costs, and changes in social policies to support its elderly population, including pension reform and encouragement of higher birth rates.
What is Japan?
Q. The capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human well-being, and socioeconomic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-related disasters, and for preserving ecosystems in a climate of peace and political stability
What is water security?
Q: This type of societal transition occurs when a country moves from high birth and death rates to lower rates, significantly changing its population structure.
A: What is demographic transition?
Q: These biological communities, defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, are shifting in spatial distribution due to changing temperatures and precipitation patterns.
A: What are biomes?
Q. In response to this global accord, Chile has made significant changes to its climate change laws, committing to reduce emissions and transitioning to renewable energy sources, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050.
What is the Paris Climate Change Agreement?