ES 110 Purdue University Climate Change Environmental Science Questions

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Step 1 (no marks): Select one of three environmental problems
Select one of the three following environmental problems you wish to focus on for the remainder of this
examination, and underline it. Delete the other two.
Deforestation
Climate change (focus on the impacts of rising average temperatures, including sea level rise)
Water pollution (includes chemical toxins, organic wastes, and plastic waste)
Step 2 (worth 5 marks): Describe the key causes of the problem
Question: In 250 words or less, use the formula I = P x A x T to explain how human activity is causing the
environmental problem you selected. Enter your answer immediately below.
Answer:
Step 3 (worth 4 marks): Links to biodiversity
Question: In 150 words or less, describe how biodiversity is affected by the environmental problem you selected.
Enter your answer immediately below.
Answer:
Step 4 (worth 5 marks): Human impacts of the problem
Question: In 250 words or less, use the formula V = f(E,S,A) to explain how the environmental problem you
selected affects people. Provide specific examples wherever possible. Enter your answer immediately below.
Answer:
Step 5 (worth 5 marks): Local impacts
Question: Enter your home address in the space below (important: for this question “home” = the place you
consider to be home; if you have moved to a new address to attend university, do not use that address). Then, if
you selected water pollution, describe a specific example of one type of water pollution that occurs in your home
town or city (if you live in a rural area, use your home county). If you selected climate change, describe 1 specific
future impact you and your neighbours OR your local government will be forced to deal with in coming years. If
you selected deforestation, describe how the forest cover in your home town, city and/or surrounding region has
changed in the last 100 years. Note that you are not required to do significant extra research to answer this
question unless you truly don’t know an example; you are allowed to draw upon your own local experience and
knowledge in answering this question.
My home address:
My answer to this question (in 200 words or less):
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Step 6 (worth 6 marks): Possible actions for responding to the problem
Question: Identify 3 specific actions that could be taken by each of the following actors to address the
environmental problem you selected (you do not need to provide a lengthy description; use no more than 1-2
sentences for each). For each action you list, provide immediately after it a citation to a page in your textbook, a
slide number in a narrated PPT from the course, or the date of a class Zoom meeting where the action was
described (see Instruction Sheet for examples on how to cite).
List 3 actions that could be taken by the Government of Canada (or, if you are an international student, by the
national government of your home country):
1.
2.
3.
List 3 actions that could be taken by local governments and/or non-governmental organizations:
1.
2.
3.
Final step (Step 7, worth 5 marks): Personal contribution to a complete solution
Question: Type out the definition of a “complete solution” as it was used in the final Zoom meeting of the course.
Then, in 200 words or less, describe 1 specific decision, commitment or action you personally could undertake to
address the environmental problem you selected, and explain how/why it would be a “complete solution”.
A complete solution is:
A decision, commitment or action that I personally could take is as follows:
3
4
The professor should not know the specific situation of my home, so you can write about
the situation of any place that you know relatively well. Then I can fill in my hometown. Of
course, you can also write about my hometown. My home is in Beijing, China.use I am a
international student, I am a Chinese
For I=P*A*t, check “week 1 powerpoint”
for V=f(e.s.a) check “week narrated” powerpoint
which one are you going to write about:
Deforestation
Climate change (focus on the impacts of rising average temperatures, including sea level
rise)
Water pollution (includes chemical toxins, organic wastes, and plastic waste)which one are
you going to write about
I will give you the narrated powerpoints
11 hours ago
6. Note that each question states the maximum number of words, and lists the maximum
number of marks
available for each. You are not required to provide references or citations EXCEPT at step 6,
which asks you to
list specific actions that can be taken to address a specific environmental problem. For each
action you list, you
are asked to provide immediately after it a citation to a page in your textbook, a slide
number in a narrated PPT
from the course, or the date of a class Zoom meeting where the action is described. You do
not need to add a
reference list to the end of your paper, simply provide the citation to your answers in Step 6.
Here are two
hypothetical examples of how to provide a citation:
The government of Canada must continue to avoid producing ozone depleting substances
as it committed
to do under the Vienna Convention (see Section B zoom call NOV10).
The government of Canada could measure its progress on this environmental problem by
monitoring its
ranking on the Environmental Performance Index and identifying which indicators it could
improve upon
(see textbook Chapter 6, page 195).
when you write step6 you will need my textbook or ppt for it, I will give that to you later
Vulnerability to climate change
Vulnerability (V) = potential for harm or loss
V = f(E,S,A)
where
E = exposure
S = sensitivity
A = adaptive capacity
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E.g. Exposure to sea-level rise
House 1
House 2
House 1 has a much higher level of
exposure to sea level rise and to storms
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Sensitivity to sea level rise
• Sensitivity reflects land use, livelihood types
Subsistence fishing village
= higher sensitivity
Golf course owned & used by wealthy
people for recreation
= lower sensitivity (just move the greens)
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Adaptive capacity
• Is the ability to cope with & adjust to climatic variability & change
• Adaptation can happen at all scales (from individual households to
the international community)
• Adaptation can be proactive (in anticipation of risk) or reactive (after
harm has occurred)
• How you adapt is often a function of your wealth, access to
technology
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Relative vulnerability to sea level rise
• The exposure & sensitivity are similar for Holland and Bangladesh
• Both countries are situated in low-lying coastal deltas
Satellite view of Holland
Satellite view of Bangladesh
(& neighbouring Indian state of West Bengal)
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Bangladesh: population exposed to SLR
Areas in red are in the Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ)
(i.e.

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