Cumulative Impacts Quiz Questions

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Select one: Researchers study factors that may increase the likelihood that older adults have health problems due to weather extremes. These factors include weather and air pollution interactions, as well as community characteristics, such as socioeconomic status and green space. These researchers are concerned about

cumulative impacts
disaster capitalism

Select one: Cumulative impacts of pollution exposure are challenging to deal with because

they disproportionately impact people of color, thus entangling with the impacts of racism

they demonstrate that strict environmental regulation isn’t effective

Select one: Cumulative impacts of pollution exposure are challenging to deal with because
- exposures come from many different pollution sources

exposures come from only one pollution source

Select one: Cumulative impacts of pollution exposure are challenging to deal with because
- of the length of time between pollution exposures and disease onset

they occur rapidly and during fast disasters

Select one: Cumulative impacts analysis
- focuses on the sources of pollution in a community, setting aside other factors that may contribute to poor health

considers all of the many sources of pollution in a community, as well as other factors that contribute to poor health

Select one: Cumulative environmental health impacts
- result from a combination of health stressors

result from a single health stressor

Select one: Cumulative environmental health impacts
- are easy to deal with through law and regulation because a single pollution source can be pinpointed

are difficult to deal with through law and regulation because there are multiple pollution sources

Select one: Wilmington, California’s proximity to oil refineries, drilling operations, freeway traffic, and the port of Long Beach produces
- climate change adaptation

cumulative effects

Select one: Work to build “green zones” supporting environmental justice involves
- isolating one source of pollution in order to combat it
- a cumulative impacts approach looking at the totality of pollution in a particular area in combination with other socioeconomic and health inequalities

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Contributors

Katie Vo

Contributed date

September 12, 2023 - 6:19pm

Critical Commentary

Questions that go along with the concept of "cumulative impacts."

Group Audience

EcoEd Design Space

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Anonymous, "Cumulative Impacts Quiz Questions", contributed by Katie Vo, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 12 September 2023, accessed 30 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/cumulative-impacts-quiz-questions

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