latin america

Question 1

using ____ as economy

Answer 1

nature

Question 2

eco-voluntourism

Answer 2

visitors can engage in activities while volunteering to help protect and rehabilitate local environment

Question 3

Global connections and region’s extractive economy:

Answer 3

• Investment goes in and nature goes out

- All commodities are exported

Question 4

Global connections on the drug trade

Answer 4

• Information about foreign demand for cocaine… the high demand for cocaine in the US and Europe gets back to coca growing communities who sell the leaf for money
• The narcotics being smuggled out of the region into places as far as NA, Europe, Asia

Question 5

World health organization (WHO):

Answer 5

helps eradicate disease to improve human health

Question 6

Fossil fuels in Latin America

Answer 6

Coal mining

Oil

Question 7

The lack of environmental regulations and low respect for human rights attracts investments from large multinational corporations which exports the resources they extract and their profits to other parts of the world often leaving the mess behind

Answer 7

The lack of environmental regulations and low respect for human rights attracts investments from large multinational corporations which exports the resources they extract and their profits to other parts of the world often leaving the mess behind

Question 8

Nature as economy

Answer 8

• Huge amounts of land in Latin America and Caribbean are forests hold a significant portion of the world’s biodiversity
• Rainforests provide ecosystem services to the rest of the world

Question 9

NGOs as global actors:

Answer 9

• raise funds through different kinds of fundraising activities
• set up international branches and operating in multiple countries

Question 10

Europe’s global connections:

Answer 10

• Outgoing international migration
• Internal migration
• Incoming migration

Question 11

Europe emissions trading scheme (ETS)

Answer 11

• Derived from the idea of ‘cap and trade’
• Whole point of ‘cap and trade’ was to encourage companies to reduce their emissions by spending money on cleaner production technologies

Question 12

Global connections of ETS

Answer 12

Europe’s ETS has provided a model that California, Quebec, Manitoba, etc., studied when launching their own carbon markets

Question 13

Why is China the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases?

Answer 13

• China imports coal from other world regions like the US, Australia, Indonesia
• Most cars in China still run on fossil fuels

Question 14

China’s rising investment in renewable energy

Answer 14

China surpassed the US and Europe becoming the largest investor in renewable technologies

Question 15

Kaizen system

Answer 15

means continual improvement
- Encompasses a set of practices that enables the constant monitoring of every aspect of the manufacturing process and the ability to change whatever may be causing problems

Question 16

Quality Assurance System:

Answer 16

is concerned with the finished product.

Question 17

Global connections of the JIT and Kaizen

Answer 17

influential in the globalization of flexible employment practices (hiring employees for short contracts when they are needed rather than permanent employees)

Question 18

China’s currency has two names;

Answer 18

Yuan & Renminbi