Chapter 18

Question 1

climate change

Answer 1

pattern of change affecting global and regional climate, natural process and human activity

Question 2

collective action problem

Answer 2

multiple individuals would benefit from a certain action, but associated cost makes it unlikely that any individual can or will undertake the problem alone

Question 3

tragedy of the commons

Answer 3

overexploitation and resulting degradation of environmental resources as a result of individuals rationally pursuing personal gain with resources that are held in common by a group of people of by all people

Question 4

common pool reosurces

Answer 4

goods consisting of natural or human-made resource systems, common property resources, size makes it difficult to define recognized users

Question 5

bioaccumulation

Answer 5

accumulation of substances such as pesticides in an organism

Question 6

resilience

Answer 6

ability to adapt and recover from hazards and crisis

Question 7

green economy

Answer 7

an economy that results in reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities and that aims for sustainable development

Question 8

mitigation

Answer 8

action that will reduce man-made climate change

Question 9

adaption

Answer 9

action to assist in coping with the effects of climate change