ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

OBJECTIVE
1. Which one of the following is NOT a green house gas found naturally in the atmosphere?
(a) Nitrogen oxide (b) carbon dioxide (c) methane (d) ozone [a]
2. Which pollution causes Itai-Itai disease in human beings?
(a) Mercury pollution [b]
(b) Cadmium pollution
(c) Arsenic pollution
(d) Nitrate pollution
3. Acid rain is due to air pollution by [d]
(a) Carbon dioxide
(b) Carbon monoxide
(c) Methane
(d) Nitrous oxide and Sulphur dioxide
4. Which gas is depleted due to air pollution? [c]
(a) Oxygen
(b) Carbon-di-oxide
(c) Ozone
(d) Nitrogen
5. The disposable Wastes contain [d]
(a) Liquids
(b) Slurries
(c) Solids
(d) More than one of the above
6. What are the environmental resources? [d]
(a) Clean air
(b) Water
(c) Natural habits
(d) All of the above
7. TEV means [b]
(a) Temporary Equal Value
(b) Total Economic Value
(c) Time based Economic Value
(d) Temporary Economic Value
8. Main approaches of Discounting [c]
(a) Exponential discounting
(b) Hyperbolic discounting
(c) Both a & b
(d) None of the above
9. Discounting is a controversial issue in [b]
(a) TEV
(b) CBA
(c) AAT
(d) None of the above
10. TEV framework is widely used in [c]
(a) CBA
 (b) Economic value
(c) Environmental economics
(d) None of the above
11. What causes air pollution naturally? [c]
(a) Volcanoes
(b) Dust storms
(c) Both a & b
(d) None of the above
12. Which of the following is a chemical treatment process of wastewater treatment?
(a) Sedimentation [b]
(b) Neutralization
(c) Aeration
(d) None of the above
13. Ozone holes are more pronounced at the [d]
(a) Equator
(b) Tropic of cancer
(c) Tropic of Capricorn
(d) Poles
14. Smog is [c]
(a) Ozone and smoke
(b) Vehicular pollutant
(c) Fog and smoke
(d) Fog and ozone
15. Maximum ozone depletion has been observed in which of the following?
(a) The North pole [b]
(b) The South pole
(c) The Equator
(d) None of the above
16. Which of the following is NOT a “ greenhouse gas “ (GHG)? [a]
(a) Oxygen
(b) Carbon dioxide
(c) Water vapour
(d) Methane
17. Which of the following is not a water pollutant? [c]
(a) Chromium
(b) Silt
(c) Glacier
(d) Arsenic
18. Noise pollution is measured in [b]
(a) Ohm
(b) Decibel
(c) Joule
(d) Ampere
19. PES means [a]
(a) Payments of ecosystem services
(b) Payment of economic services
(c) Permanent of economy services
(d) Payment of economic social system
20. CBD means [a]
(a) Convention on Biological Diversity
(b) Convention on Bio Degrade
(c) Classic on Bio Diversity
(d) Convention on Bio Diversity
21. Economics of climate changes include [d]
(a) Externalities
(b) Technological innovation
(c) None of the above
(d) Both a & b
22. The stern review on the economics of climate change is a landmark report published in
(a) 2004 [d]
(b) 2005
(c) 2003
(d) 2006
23. The Stern Review on the Economics pf Biodiversity was published in
(a) 2021 [c]
(b) 2012
(c) 2020
(d) 2013
24. DST government of India is collaborating with whom for real-time river water and Air quality
monitoring
(a) Microsoft [b]
(b) Intel
(c) GE
(d) Google
25. In comparison of pure water, boiling point of impure water
(a) Is same [b]
(b) Increase
(c) Decrease
(d) First decrease then increase
26. Climatic effect due to [d]
(a) Rehabilitation
(b) Flooding due to sea water
(c) Salt water intrusion
(d) Strom changes
27. Industrial permitted noise level units? [d]
(a) 75 dB
(b) 55 dB
(c) 90 dB
(d) None of the above
28. International World Water day was started in [a]
(a) 1992
(b) 1998
(c) 1995
(d) 1997
29. Market failure provides a justification for government intervention/action
(a) True [a]
 (b) False
30. Continued extraction of nonrenewable can be sustainable overtime if managed properly
(a) True [a]
(b) False