Environment and Sustainability

What known neurotoxin was identified as leaching from aging water pipes into the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, as a result of the city's failure to implement adequate corrosion control measures?

The increasing intersection of water circulation with human systems of power, including infrastructure and political resource allocation, is referred to as what type of process?

According to a 2018 World Health Organization report mentioned in the text, how many people globally use a water source that is contaminated by fecal matter?

In her study of the Harlem Birth Right Project, Leith Mullings found that heavy pollution from a sewage treatment plant and six bus depots contributed to an elevated child asthma rate that was how many times the national average?

What does anthropologist Josh Reno's work suggest is a primary consequence of landfill construction in the United States?

Anthropologist Neil Smith's analysis of Hurricane Katrina as an 'unnatural disaster' attributes the storm's most severe effects to what factor?

What is one of the dangers associated with industrial agriculture that is mentioned in the text?

What is the term for the number of people who can be supported by the resources of the surrounding region?

In her work on the global economy, what does cultural anthropologist Anna Tsing examine in the destruction of the rainforest in Kalimantan, Indonesia?

The global demand for timber, mining, and agricultural land for what specific plantation crop has driven the clear-cutting and burning of rainforests in Kalimantan, Indonesia?

According to the text, what is a primary reason General Motors relocated jobs from Flint overseas?

Which basic concept in economic anthropology is defined as a cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use available resources to satisfy their basic needs?

What term is used for the horticultural practice of clearing land for cultivation by cutting and burning vegetation, which produces a nutrient-rich ash that serves as fertilizer?

The text suggests that world food shortages are not a result of inadequate food production, but rather a result of what?

What is one of the main factors cited in the text as causing increasing stress on world food production today?

In the context of 'friction' in Kalimantan, which group is mentioned as resisting the destruction of their native lands?

The text describes how some of the hidden costs of a product like a chocolate bar, which are not included in its price, can be obscured. What is one example of such a hidden environmental cost?

What is one of the key interventions suggested in the 'Toolkit' section for addressing the unwelcome consequences of the globalized economy?

The text mentions that women are disproportionately affected by what environmental issue?

What does the text identify as a consequence of the largely invisible system of mass waste removal in the United States?

In the context of the Mumbai water crisis, what term does Nikhil Anand use to describe the struggle for a right to water?

According to the text, what is a primary argument of dependency theory as a critique of modernization theories?

The text discusses how industrial agriculture often requires more calories in the production process than the food provides when consumed. What is one of the high energy inputs it lists?

Which of the following describes the strategy of 'offshoring' as part of flexible accumulation?

What does the text identify as a major driver for the expansion of the African slave trade by the Spanish and Portuguese?

The text notes that in the U.S., landfills transfer the risk of pollution and ill health to what specific types of communities?

What commodity, transformed from a luxury item to a key component of the European diet, is mentioned as sweetening three other key commodities (coffee, tea, cocoa) in the triangle trade?

In the study of the informal economy in Cochabamba, Bolivia, what is the term for the thousands of long-term, permanent merchants who sell from stalls in the market's central pavilion?

What has been the impact of introducing industrial agricultural practices on the populations of small-scale farmers and peasants in many parts of the world?

The text describes an economic restructuring launched by the expansion of global capitalism where corporations ship manufacturing jobs overseas. What is a key motivation for this?

According to the analysis of the Mumbai water system, what does the disconnection of water often mean for the city's poor settlement dwellers?

What is identified as a significant factor in the vulnerability of women to environmental degradation?

The text describes how the production and consumption of what specific commodity transformed North America by driving European expansion and severely disrupting Native American settlement patterns?

What does the text identify as a primary problem with food irradiation, a technique used in industrial agriculture?

What is the term for a continued pattern of unequal economic relations that persists despite the formal end of colonial political and military control?

The text identifies the availability of sanitation and clean water as a clear distinction of what social measure?

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 forced a division of people and resources in Africa by drawing new political boundaries along what kind of features?

In the context of climate change, the text argues that financial and political resources allow some to 'buy safety.' How is this achieved?

Which of the following did the text cite as an example of a leveling mechanism, a practice that levels out resources within a group?

What is the primary argument of Goldstein's study of street vendors in Cochabamba regarding the growth of the informal economy?

The text notes that in the U.S. public school system, students are split into separate tracks from an early age based on standardized tests and teacher evaluations. This phenomenon is an example of what concept from Pierre Bourdieu?

What is the consequence of genetic engineering to combat crop disease in industrial agriculture, as mentioned in the text?

In Wallerstein's modern world systems analysis, what is the primary role of periphery countries?

According to the text, what is the core argument of neoliberalism?

Structural adjustment loans, as promoted by the IMF and World Bank, required receiving governments to take what action regarding health, education, and social services?

In the context of the global tuna trade, how does the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo function within Wallerstein's world systems theory?

What are 'commodity chains'?

Which food production strategy involves the domestication and herding of animals like goats, sheep, and cattle?

The analysis of the Flint water crisis revealed that it occurred in a city with a poverty rate exceeding 42 percent and a majority what population?

In the ethnographic study of poor whites in rural Kentucky, Pem Davidson Buck argues that the privileges of whiteness were used as a 'smokescreen' by elites for what purpose?