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SCI3010 Hengen

Trinidad Case Study Questions

Due Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Conceptual questions

1)Define sustainable development.

The principal to meet human development goals while sustaining the ability of natural system

and protecting it from polluted.

2)Based on the three block model what resource is being consumed from the environment

as a source and what is being released into the environment when considering the

environment as a sink?

Source: fossil fuel. Releasing source: carbon dioxide.

3)Is the resource being consumed a

1) nonrenewable: Fossil fuels and precious metals and ores

2) renewable: Plants

3) perpetual resource: The sun

4)Is the a country of Trinidad a developed or developing country?

Developing country.

Case Study Questions

1) Based on the Problem Solving Framework

a) In a few sentences describe the problem in the case study.

The major problem that Trinidad faces is economic development causing over average carbon

dioxide emission.

b) List at least three of your own solutions Trinidad could do to solve their problem.

1. Trinidad should find out some renewable or cleaner energy to substitute those high carbon

dioxide emission energy.

2. Trinidad government should publish series of policy to control the carbon dioxide output of

domestic industries. At the same time, the government should control GDP increasing rate.

Keeping the rate in a reasonable range in order to decrease energy consumption and carbon

dioxide emission.

3. The advocation of taking public transportation instead of driving private car could relieve the

pressure of private vehicle carbon dioxide emission.

c) Which one did the leaders of the country decide to do (section 4.1)?

The leader should make a forward planning.

2)Almost all leader of countries in the world aspire for economic growth. What are some

environmental effects of increased wealth and population increases?

I suppose that with the increasing population and increased wealth, it must be some

environmental damage such as exploitation of the forest, pollution of the underground water,

lake and river, over emission of the carbon dioxide. The development of industries and

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