Environmental Change Part 5

Question 1

What does the TBL model stand for?

Answer 1

Triple bottom line

Question 2

What does the TBL model allow us to do?

Answer 2

Evaluate the sustainability of management strategies applied to environmental change

Question 3

When applying TBL, what is the response evaluated on?

Answer 3

Whether it is to substitute, eliminate, restore or compensate

Question 4

What are the 3 criteria used to evaluate sustainability?

Answer 4

The social, economic and environmental outcomes of the management response

Question 5

What are the 3 shortened words representing these 3 criteria?

Answer 5

Social factors = People
Environmental factors = Planet
Economic factors = Profit

Question 6

What do social factors relate to?

Answer 6

There must be fair and equal outcomes for all people and communities in the region affect, with nobody losing out

Question 7

What do environmental factors refer to?

Answer 7

Sustainable environment practices, which endeavour to benefit the natural order as much as possible, and do not harm the environment

Question 8

What do economic factors refer to?

Answer 8

Whether the economic value created by the response is great enough to justify its implementation, and whether anybody loses out economically

Question 9

What are some examples of key social criteria in a TBL evaluation?

Answer 9

Whether the response has the potential to alleviate negative impacts, address the societal drivers and whether people living nearby will have a higher or lower risk

Question 10

What are some examples of key environmental criteria in a TBL evaluation?

Answer 10

Whether the response can help restore chemical or physical variables, and whether it addresses the change in ecosystem services

Question 11

What are some examples of key economic criteria in a TBL evaluation

Answer 11

Whether it is a wise use of the economy and whether people will want to pay for things at a different price due to the response

Question 12

What is sustainable development?

Answer 12

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 13

What is environmental sustainability?

Answer 13

To ensure we do not cause damage to our environment or deplete resources we cannot renew

Question 14

What are some examples of human activities which have led to negative environmental sustainability?

Answer 14

Industrialisation, deforestation and overexploitation of natural resources

Question 15

What is used to assess the social and economic sustainability of a policy?

Answer 15

The SAFFEIT assessment

Question 16

What does the SAFFEIT assessment stand for?

Answer 16

Sustainability, affordability, fairness, flexibility, enforceability, incentives and timescale

Question 17

What is another way to assess economic sustainability?

Answer 17

The cost-benefit analysis

Question 18

What do costs include?

Answer 18

Maintenance, environment, research, development and labour costs

Question 19

What do benefits include?

Answer 19

An increase in productivity, reduction in costs and saving of time

Question 20

What are direct costs?

Answer 20

Directly tied to the production of specific goods or services, such as manufacturing supplies

Question 21

What are indirect costs?

Answer 21

More difficult to assign to a specific product, can include overhead or administrative expenses