Top 150+ Solved Managing for Sustainability MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following characteristics is widely regarded as being an important aspect of sustainable development?
a. Inter-generational equity
b. Increasing consumption expenditure
c. Intra-generational inequity
d. Increased levels of saving
Q. A "green transport plan" is:
a. An environmentally acceptable travel plan devised by a local authority for its area
b. An internationally agreed strategy for reducing the impact of international transport activity on the global environment.
c. A plan devised by a company or organisation to reduce the environmental impact of the transport demands generated by itself and its employees
d. The UK government's plan for a sustainable transport sector
Q. Food, space, disease, natural disasters, climate, competition and predation are examples of what?
a. Capacity Factors
b. Limiting Factors
c. Predation Factors
d. Sustainable Factors
Q. Sustainable Development focuses on more use of:
a. Renewable resources
b. Abiotic resources
c. Agricultural resources
d. Natural resources
Q. Which of the following perspectives takes the strongest stance in support of sustainability?
a. Communalist
b. Free market
c. Deep ecology
d. Cornucopian
Q. Social, economic and ecological equity is the necessary condition for achieving
a. Social development
b. Economic development
c. Sustainable development
d. Ecological development
Q. 'Meeting the needs of the present compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own need' is
a. Brundtland
b. Mahatma Gandhi
c. Maathai
d. Sunderlal Bahugana
Q. The definition of sustainable development was expressed during the World Commission on 39 Environment and Development in 1987, chaired by
a. Gro Harlem Brundtland
b. Murray Bookchin
c. Rees and WackernackeJ
d. John Elkington
Q. Which of the following statement is correct?(a) Renewable resources should provide a sustainable yield (the rate of harvest should not exceed the rate of regeneration).(b) For non-renewable resources there should be equivalent development of renewable substitutes.(c) Waste generation should exceed the assimilative capacity of the environment
a. (a) and (c)
b. (b) and (c)
c. (a) and (b)
d. None
Q. Dematerialisation is being encouraged through the ideas of industrial ecology _and
a. Ecodesign
b. Ecolabelling
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of the above
Q. The ecological footprint is an tool for ecological resources
a. Accounting
b. Management
c. Decision making
d. Financial
Q. Eco-tracking tools need to be available which
a. Do not allow you to trace environmental footprint
b. Avoids data collection
c. Set-up an environmental management system
d. Help in decision making
Q. A sustainability rep~rt is the key platform for communicating ., and impacts whether positive or negative
a. Sustainability performance
b. Management decisions
c. Financial analysis
d. Information
Q. Adverse social impacts could be in the form of
a. Loss of land
b. loss of structures
c. Loss of livelihood
d. All of the above