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Environment and sustainable development: previous year questions

Asked 31 times in 4 exams across 6 years. Newest first.

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  • Environmental valuation and cost-benefit analysis 6
  • Pollution control: taxes, standards and tradable permits 4
  • Exhaustible and renewable natural resources 1
  • Sustainable development and green accounting 9
  • Climate change, trade and international environmental agreements 11

Environmental valuation and cost-benefit analysis

Putting money values on environmental goods and weighing projects that affect them.

  1. GATE 2025 Q33In the context of environmental cost-benefit analysis, which of the following statements is/are NOT CORRECT?
  2. UGC-NET 2024 Q1The method used for estimation of price change of a house due to change in environment like starting of park, scenic beauty etc is:
  3. UGC-NET 2024 Q56Identify the correct statements: (A) According to environmental valuation theory, Option value = Future use value + Bequest value + Vicarious value…
  4. UGC-NET 2024 Q76Match List - I with List - II: List-I: (A) Travel cost method; (B) Stern review; (C) Brundtland commission report; (D) User cost List-II: (I)…
  5. UGC-NET 2023 Q34Which of the following applies to the physical linkage approach for the valuation of environmental benefits?
  6. UGC-NET 2023 Q62Defensive expenditure method is based on the understanding that: A. the consumer spends money to ameliorate the damaging effects of the bad. B. the…

Pollution control: taxes, standards and tradable permits

The policy instruments for reducing pollution and how they compare.

  1. UGC-NET 2023 Q33Which of the following defines ambient standards in an environmental policy?
  2. UGC-NET 2023 Q66Match List I with List II. List I A. Cost-effectiveness B. Pollution permit trading system C. Market approach D. Command-and-control approach. List…
  3. UGC-NET 2023 Q67Match List-I with List II (A) Coase theorem (B) Climate change (C) Ecological dumping (D) Tradable emission permit. List II (I) Property right…
  4. UoH 2017 Q19Union Carbide company was asked to pay compensation to the victims of the well-known Bhopal Gas Tragedy by the Supreme Court, following

Exhaustible and renewable natural resources

How to use resources that run out, or that regenerate, over time.

  1. UGC-NET 2023 Q2Suppose that a scarce resource, facing a constant demand, will be exhausted in 10 years. If an alternative resource will be available at a price of

Sustainable development and green accounting

What it means for development to be sustainable and how to measure it.

  1. UGC-NET 2025 Q13Match List-I with List-II. | List-I | List-II | A. Kenneth Boulding | I. Pollution Tax | B. Georgescu-Roegen | II. Spaceship Earth and Ecological…
  2. UGC-NET 2025 Q54Match List-I with List II A. Inverted-'U' hypothesis B. Sustainable development C. Ecological Economics D. Tragedy of the commons. List II I. Herman…
  3. UGC-NET 2024 Q53Ecological Footprint means:
  4. UGC-NET 2024 Q61Consider the following statements regarding environmental economics and choose the correct ones: (A) The first UN Conference on the Human…
  5. UGC-NET 2023 Q96(Comprehension) Adjusted Net Savings (ANS) is measured as Gross National Saving minus depreciation of produced capital, depletion of subsoil assets…
  6. UGC-NET 2023 Q97(Comprehension) ANS = Gross National Saving minus depreciation of produced capital, depletion of subsoil assets and timber, and air-pollution…
  7. UGC-NET 2023 Q98(Comprehension) When natural-resource depletion is not used to invest in other assets, gross saving may not compensate for the depletion, giving…
  8. UGC-NET 2023 Q99(Comprehension) It is argued that ANS is useful mainly as an indicator of unsustainability, and its estimates and conceptualization are not free…
  9. UGC-NET 2023 Q100(Comprehension) It is argued that, if not a superior indicator of sustainability, ANS is useful to the extent that it can serve as an indicator of…

Climate change, trade and international environmental agreements

Global environmental problems and the agreements and trade links that surround them.

  1. GATE 2025 Q56Which of the following statements is/are NOT CORRECT?
  2. UGC-NET 2025 Q19Arrange the following environmental conventions/summits in sequence starting from the oldest. A. Kyoto Protocol B. Minamata Convention C. Stockholm…
  3. UGC-NET 2024 Q9Under the Green Climate Fund of the UNFCCC, what ratio of financial allocation between 'Adaptation' and 'Mitigation' activities is aimed at?
  4. UGC-NET 2024 Q89Match List - I with List - II: List-I: (A) Montreal Protocol; (B) Cop 28; (C) Rio+20; (D) Willingness to Accept (WTA) List-II: (I) Contingent…
  5. UGC-NET 2023 Q63Which of the following constitute India's strategy to combat climate change in the backdrop of its stand at COP 26 (Glasgow)? A. phasing out of…
  6. UGC-NET 2023 Q66Match List-I with List II (A) Ramsar Convention (B) Basel Convention (C) Montreal Protocol (D) Paris Agreement. List II (I) Ozone layer depletion…
  7. JNU 2012 Q98The primary issue dealt with in this paragraph is
  8. JNU 2012 Q99It is argued in the paragraph that climate change will by itself
  9. JNU 2012 Q100It is argued in the paragraph that climate change is a result of
  10. UoH 2012 Q89Kyoto Protocol 1997 is an international agreement for achieving:
  11. JNU 2011 Q37In terms of current annual human caused greenhouse gas emissions