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Question 1

What is the best city to live in?

Answer 1

Vienna

Question 2

What is the predicted global percentage of people living in urban centres in 2050?

Answer 2

71%

Question 3

Why do people head to cities?

Answer 3

Education, Employment. Economic Development. Immigration increase

Question 4

What is the urban form?

Answer 4

Distribution of land use and activities within cities

Question 5

What is urban form influenced by?

Answer 5

Ecibinucm Social and government

Question 6

Whats an example of a functional region?

Answer 6

People work in the CBD but live in the suburbs

Question 7

What is sprawl?

Answer 7

Dispersed urban form

Question 8

What are social factors influencing urban form?

Answer 8

Religion, Social aspects / privileges, immigration

Question 9

What are economic factors influencing urban form?

Answer 9

Zoning restrictions, Land use laws, Accessibility production/reform

Question 10

What do cities need as they grow?

Answer 10

More transport, jobs, public spaces

Question 11

What did Jane Jacobs realize?

Answer 11

That urban developers were making cities for businesses, not people

Question 12

What is an example of a vernacular region in Wellington?

Answer 12

The golden mile.

Question 13

What are the two factors that make up urban form?

Answer 13

Environment AND activities

Question 14

What are the three sectors of the economy?

Answer 14

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary?

Question 15

What are the three sectors of economy known for?

Answer 15

Primary - Getting the ingredients
Secondary - forming the product
Tertiary - selling the product

Question 16

What is the GDP?

Answer 16

The total value of all goods and services produced in a country. This affects how well a country is doing

Question 17

What is capitalism?

Answer 17

The pursuit of wealth. Trades industries are controlled by private traders.

Question 18

What is a market failure?

Answer 18

The inefficient distribution of goods and services

Question 19

What is a market failure?

Answer 19

environmental problems - ie. global warming

Question 20

What is emissions trading?

Answer 20

Countries have set quotas on carbon emissions. To exceed these a country must buy permits from other countries. There should be an incentive to invest in more green technologies but there isn’t

Question 21

Why didn’t emissions trading work?

Answer 21

1 unit = two tonnes of emissions
Overseas permits are cheap
Agriculture is not included in the bill so this hurt NZ

Question 22

What is the carbon tax? How does it work?

Answer 22

A tax on carbon usage. An increased carbon price decreases its demand and decreases total carbon emissions

Question 23

What is the way forward in terms of growth?

Answer 23

It should occur within ecological limits

Question 24

What is the human development index?

Answer 24

An index which looks at the growth in the light of education, income, and life span

Question 25

How do we lower planetary usage?

Answer 25

Use local producers, share more, walk more

Question 26

What is now widely looked at as the three areas of growth?

Answer 26

Economy, Environment, Society

Question 27

What is sequestration?

Answer 27

C is removed from the atmosphere

Question 28

What is the green house effect?

Answer 28

The atmosphere is transparent to shortwave light but not long wave light. This type is emitted from the earth and is trapped, warming the earth

Question 29

What contributes to variability in carbon being emitted into the atmosphere?

Answer 29

Photosynthesis, Respiration, Morning, Evening

Question 30

What plan is the only way t save our planet?

Answer 30

2CIP plan

Question 31

What is the kyoto protocol?

Answer 31

Measure to reduce net emissions

Question 32

What is the Paris COP?

Answer 32

Measure to reduce emissions down to 1.5 degrees above industrial levels

Question 33

Which green house gas lasts the longest / Has the greatest effect in the short term?

Answer 33

CO2 and CH4

Question 34

How many cars would need to be electric to meet the zero carbon bill?

Answer 34

95%

Question 35

What are incremental and transformation adaptations?

Answer 35

Incremental: Small changes Transformational: fundamental changes to biophysical, economic or social systems

Question 36

What % of americans do not believe that climate change is a real issue?

Answer 36

37%

Question 37

What is optimism bias?

Answer 37

The belief that compared to other people you are more likely to experience positive events, not negative events

Question 38

What is spatial bias?

Answer 38

Climate change is far away in terms of location

Question 39

What is temporal bias?

Answer 39

People plan for the short term and not the long term

Question 40

What is confirmation bias?

Answer 40

People seek out information that confirms their own biases

Question 41

What are some factors that influence positions on an issue?

Answer 41

Political views, social views, economy