ISS 310 Final Exam || All Questions Answered Correctly.
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What do Linton and Budds
say about the work of the hydrology? correct answers The study of hydrology is a social construction, and is therefore partial knowledge
What does IWRM stand for? correct answers Integrated water resource management
Which of the following frameworks helps "naturalize...
ISS 310 Final Exam || All Questions Answered Correctly.
What do Linton and Budds
say about the work of the hydrology? correct answers The study of hydrology is a social
construction, and is therefore partial knowledge
What does IWRM stand for? correct answers Integrated water resource management
Which of the following frameworks helps "naturalize" water processes? correct answers The
hydrologic cycle
Which of the following groupings correctly represents the variables included in the hydrosocial
cycle? correct answers Technology, ecological processes (i.e.,H2O), and society/policy
(e.g.,social power, water law, etc.)
How is the hydrosocial cycle different from the hydrologic cycle? correct answers The
hydrosocial cycle attends to water's social and political nature
What does it mean to say water systems and human societies operate as hybridizes in dialectical
relations? correct answers Water, society and technology internalize the relation they have with
each other
Water, society and technology are all related to each other
Water and society are co-produced and acts as a feedback loop
Who owns water in Michigan? correct answers It belongs to everyone and is held in public trust
by the state
What are Riparian Rights? correct answers It gives the current landowner the right to use the
adjacent surface water and
ground water
Who gets to use the water in the scenario pictured below? Assume plots A and B are east of
the Mississippi River. correct answers According to riparian rights, plot A can use the water
since they own the land adjacent to the river
In the United States, how is the legal water withdrawal limit set? correct answers The state
regulates the amount that can be withdrawn per day
Lyla Mehta (2003) argues water scarcity is a problem caused by: correct answers Biophysical
conditions
Social relationships and power around decisions made about what to do with water
Accessibility, including issues of affordability and infrastructure
, What does Mehta find in her case study looking at the Kutch - in Gujarat India? correct answers
Small-holder farmers and indigenous villagers were marginalized and ignored
Which of the following is an example of non-Eurocentric ways of thinking about water? correct
answers valuing water as sacred
How might a Eurocentric perspective address water crises? correct answers Water, like any
natural resource, needs to be commodified in order to regulate it efficiently
What is an example of nonpoint source pollution? correct answers Runoff from farms
Individual households
Sediment from forest lands
Water pollution from a particular industry is a good example of: correct answers Point source
pollution under the Clean Water Act
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (MDEGLE) is designated
authority for implementing the Clean Water Act (CWA) in Michigan by the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). Under the CWA, MDEGLE is the: correct answers Primacy agency in
Michigan
How did the 1992 Dublin Conference think about water? correct answers water as a commodity
Which of the following is NOT characteristic of IWRM? correct answers It values separate and
specialized knowledge of resources, agriculture and energy
How is water grabbing rationalized? correct answers In a world of scarcity, there are unutilized
resources that can be made profitable
It is a form of foreign direct investment for countries to get out of debt
What does Franco et al. argue for in regards to IWRM? correct answers IWRM does not take
into account power or guarantee equitable distribution of
water.
Bellamy Foster et al. (2019) article builds on/relates to which of the following theories? correct
answers World Systems Theory
How is water grabbing related to imperialism? correct answers Core countries turn to periphery
countries as the new frontier to exploit resources.
Water grabbing is more likely to occur in which of the following? correct answers countries with
weak governance structures
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