In the “Non-linear Thinking about the Anthropocene” lecture, Professor Garry Peterson often talks about how management is focused on optimization. However management in the Anthropocene is about much more than this. He argues that adaptive management is more appropriate in the context of a good Anthropocene. What does adaptive management imply? (A quick internet search should solve the answer to this question!)(Please select one answer)
A. There is no such thing as “adaptive management”
B. It allows for flexibility and learning in the management process
C. It is a traditional, rigid, and formal form of management
D. It implies that, from the beginning, a suitable management approach is chosen (depending on the problem), which will ensure that one correct solution is found
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According to the video about the Net-Works Program:How does Net-Works encourages “prosperity” in a way that is relevant for us thinking about the good Anthropocene?(Please select one answer)
A. Through community banks, where the saving of money helps people to plan for the future, leading to an increased focus on children’s education
B. Through philanthropic donations to the community, people can now think about their children's education
C. By empowering people as they realize they can make a change
D. By increasing participation and cooperation between people as they come together to collect garbage and nets from the sea
E. It does not promote prosperity
According to the video about the Net-Works Program:How does Net-Works encourage “fairness” in a way that is relevant for us thinking about the good Anthropocene?(Please select one answer)
A. It promotes gender equality within the community
B. It focused on improving the incomes of the most vulnerable community members
C. It provides livelihood for community members, and access to a global market, thus reducing poverty in the community
D. It does not promote fairness
According to the video about the Net-Works Program:How does Net-Works promote “sustainability” in a way that is relevant for us thinking about the good Anthropocene?(Please choose all that apply)
A. It increased community awareness about environmental sustainability
B. It helps to clean up fishing nets that would otherwise be thrown away as waste products and impacting negatively on the coral reefs
C. It encourages regulated fishing of endangered species
D. All of the above
Which of the following historical time periods are put forward as possible signals for the onset of the Anthropocene?(Please choose all that apply)
A. The invention of agriculture (the Neolithic revolution) 8000 years ago
B. The industrial revolution and the shift to fossil fuels as the dominant energy source during the 19th century
C. The detection of artificial radio-nucleotides in the atmosphere following the ‘trinity’ test firing of the atomic bomb
D. The release of the Apple Mac computer in the late 1980s
E. The oil shocks in the late 1970s
F. 1955 when the Global Acceleration of the human enterprise begins
G. The signing of the UN Charter following the end of the second world war
H. The collapse of the gold standard and the dissolution of Bretton Woods system in the 1970s
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