Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay HS 200: Environment Studic vic smester Exar sation Date: 0 February 2013 ‘Total Marks: 17 Module: Sociology (taught by Prof.D.Parthasarathy) There are a total of 34 items to be answered. Each item carries 0.5 marks. There is only one correct answer for each item. Students caught copying will be given FR grade, and will be reported to the Dean (Academic Affairs) for disciplinary action. A. Please tick (\) the right answer for the following. 1, Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha state that the principal conflict in Indian society is between: A. espeyStem people and omnivore B. ecosystem refugees and ecological refugees C. ecological refugees and omnivore D. ecosystem refugees and omnivores 2. Vandana Shiva argues that high yielding varieties are less than half as productive in terms of water use. High yielding varieties of wheat may yield over 40% more than traditional varieties, but require as much water: A. Four times B. Two times C. Ten times De Lhave times 3, Vandana Shiva states that the Green Revolution package has reduced genetic diversity by replacing mixtures and rotations of crops like wheate, maize, millets, pulses, and oilseeds, with of wheat and rice. 5 APMonocultures B. Genetics C. Diversity D. Biodiversity 4, To ensure the effective protection to and equitable distribution of forest produce, Guha and Gadgil suggest that the organizational unit for the management of common lands should be the:5. Elinor Ostrom has uggested eight design principles for developing institutions which can effectively govern natural resource use and management, One of the design principles is “collective choice arrangements” which is explained as: ‘A, Most individuals affected by operational rules can participate in modifying operational rules. B. Users and their officials have rapid access to low-cost, local arenas to resolve conflict among users or between users and officials C. The distribution of benefits from appropriation rules is roughly proportionate to the costs imposed by provision rules D. The rights of users to devise their own institutions are not challenged by external governmental authorities. 6. Inthe Pla ‘himada Coca-Cola case, the Kerala High Court used the doctrine to argue that “certain resources like air, sea, waters, and the forests have such a great importance to the people as a whole that it would be wholly unjustified to make them a subject of private ownership”. stele Trust doctrine B. Public-Private Partnership C. Commercial D. Proprietary 7. A key slogan of the Chipko movement was ~A LWT do the forests bear? Soil, water and pure air! B. ‘What do the mountains bear? Soil, water and pure ai. . "What do the forests bear? Land, river, and pure air. D. None of the above 8. Many dams around the world are being decommissioned or are proposed to be decommissioned because the life-span of dams is being reduced due to accumulated NA Siltdeposits B, WaterC. Salt deposits D. Dead fish 9. Arundhati Roy estimates that around million people have been displaced by big dams in the last filly years in India. et B.33 C55 D.22 10, Due to the seasonal nature of rainfall and water demand in India, the three major ‘purposes’ of dams conflict with each other. These purposes include: irrigation, and ‘A. power production and flood-control SB Doedvontrol and forestry C. forestry, and wood production D. drinking water, and forestry 1. The ‘tragedy of the commons’ was a theory about the decline of commonly managed resources proposed by: A. Arundhati Roy B, Rachel Carson ~C-eifeth Hardin D. ELinor Ostrom 12. The book by Rachel Carson was the first major work to scientifically document the detrimental effect or adverse consequences of chemical pesticides on the environment and human health A. Silent Valley —B-sifent Spring C. Cadillac Desert D. Silent Summer 13. Which one of the following is NOT a design principle (as developed by Elinor Ostrom)? A, Graduated SanctionsB. Nested Enterprises C. Collective Choice Arrangements ~D_ Lorsititutionally Supported provisions 14. In the documentary “Liquid city”, the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai states that clean water is the very basis for a revolution in: A. Public Health B. Economic growth \CSerffation D. None of the above 15. In the animation documentary “The Commons”, it is said that “whoever makes a commodity in short supply creates A. Scarcity B. Abundance ~GCommons D, Excess supply 16, In the animation documentary “The Commons”, it is demonstrated that establishing rules and taking on responsibility for the commons can lead to a situation where: A. the advantage of one person is the advantage of none B. the advantage of one person is also the advantage of another Cth Vantage of one person is never the advantage of another D. the advantage of privatization is the advantage of another 17. Big dams are being de-commissioned in many parts of the world, as they are increasingly being seen as financially unviable in the long term. The primary reason for this is: NA-Fithigh cost of de-silting reservoirs B, The high cost of compensation for rehabilitating displaced people C. The destruction of biodiversity D. The impact of large dams on climate change 18. Common pool resources and public goods share the difficulty of according to Elinor Ostrom,A SoaTabilty B. Exclusion CC. Inclusion D, Property rights 19, In the documentary ~ “The Commons ~ FES and Amar Kanwar’, itis estimated that Common, Property Resources contribute about annually to the incomes of poor Indian households. ALES Billion B.US $5.5 Billion C.US $4 Billion D.US $4.5 Billion 20, Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe poisoning, A. Lead SBovtertury CC. Endosulfan D.DDT 21, Chandi Prasad Bhatt is associated with the: A. Silent Valley movement fpko movement C. Narmada Bachao Andolan D, None of the above 22. The participants of environmental movements in North (developed countries) are the middle class and upper class people, who have concern for the nature. But in the south (developing countries the protesters are generally the marginal population — hill peasants, tribal communities, fishermen and other underprivileged people. Hence the environmentalism of the North is refereed as, environmentalism and the environmentalism of the south is called as environmentalism, \Q.Buestomach and Empty Belly B. Empty Belly and Full Stomach C. Full Belly and Empty Stomach D. Full Wallet and Empty Wallet23. In their book “Ecology and Equity”, Guha and Gadgil offer an alternative strategy for India’s development based on sound principles of natural resource management. This is termed as: A, Conservative-liberal-socialism B. Conservative-radial-sociatism C. Radical-liberal-socialism NaGorservative-socialistenvironmentalism B, For the folloy 24, nswer True (T) or Fals ‘of water for irrigation during the Green Revolution created the problem of soil salinity 25. The Chipko movement started in the forests of the Godavari valley 26. As shown in the documentary ~ “Ajab Kahani — Struggle for Forest Rights”, the people of Lekhia-Mendha were fighting for the right to cut and use timber. 27. Common Pool Resources is used to refer to a wide diversity of resources where it is hard to exclude people from them, 28. Elinor Ostrom believes that privatization and centralization are the only solutions for successful systems of resource management. Fill up the blanks for the following. 29. In the documentary - “Ajab Kahani — Struggle for Forest Rights”, itis stated that as per the Supreme court judgement of 2002, bamboo and cane belong to the family and hence the prohibition of tree cutting is not applicable to them, 30, According to Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, in their book “Ecology and Equity”, " are “those locally-based populations who use their own labor to survive by cultivating and harvesting food and other resources from specific localities”. 31. “The distribution of benefits from appropriation rules is roughly proportionate to the costs imposed by provision rules." This design principle of Elinor Ostrom is termed as 32, water is the common pool resource that got depleted due to excessive use of water by Coca Cola in Plachimada.