Chapter 4 · Management and Ecological Well-Being
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Adapted from Dyck et al., Management: Financial, Social, and Ecological Well-Being, 2nd edition (2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. These adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Original study aids; not an instructor-authored quiz or prediction of the exam. Source: Chapter 4 · https://pressbooks.openedmb.ca/management/chapter/chapter-4/
Questions
01El Toledo's organic transition initially reduced yield. What makes its subsequent diversification important to the SET analysis?
- It proved ecological change always increases yield immediately.
- It found financially viable ways to retain ecological and health priorities.
- It made maximum coffee volume the sole purpose.
- It removed every need for financial planning.
02Which combination best illustrates ecological overshoot?
- Resources are used and wastes added faster than ecosystems replenish and absorb them.
- A firm records a profit and therefore cannot harm ecosystems.
- Household recycling eliminates all industrial resource pressures.
- Resource demand stays below replenishment and waste absorption.
03What does an ecological footprint describe?
- Resource requirements of a lifestyle or activity.
- Only a firm's accounting profit.
- Only the legal size of a company's office.
- A guarantee that every locally made product is sustainable.
04A firm knows its emissions tests are misleading and conceals the deception. Which FBL ecological response is this?
- Stakeholder centrism.
- Proaction.
- Obstruction.
- Cradle-to-cradle design.
05A manager installs pollution controls only because the law requires them. Which response is most directly illustrated?
- Egalicentrism.
- Legal conformity.
- Voluntary proaction.
- Intercropping.
06Why might a TBL firm support a stricter carbon regulation?
- All regulations necessarily reduce every firm's revenue.
- Regulatory support proves the firm is SET regardless of its purpose.
- Its cleaner technology could gain a competitive advantage while reducing harms.
- TBL never considers financial returns.
07Which assessment best captures the full life cycle of a phone?
- Only the electricity used while charging.
- Materials extraction, manufacture, distribution, use, maintenance, and end-of-life treatment.
- Only the retail store's cash receipts.
- Only the weight of the product's box.
08Which design most directly reflects cradle-to-cradle thinking?
- Waste is shipped elsewhere and therefore treated as nonexistent.
- A product's materials can become useful inputs for new products at end of life.
- A product's life ends when it leaves the factory.
- A product is discarded immediately after one use.
09A firm reduces noise to respect neighbors even though it is neither required nor most profitable. Which principle fits?
- A pure minimum-cost selection rule.
- FBL unawareness.
- Greenwashing because all community action is misleading.
- SET stakeholder centrism.
10What is a careful conclusion about place-based organizing?
- Geographic closeness guarantees zero emissions.
- It always prevents every social inequality.
- It has no connection to ownership or resources.
- It can improve stewardship and relationships, but production methods still require assessment.
11What role does sunlight play in photosynthesis?
- It directly converts all fossil fuels into harmless water.
- It stops all respiration in animals.
- It provides energy to form energy-rich organic matter from CO2 and water.
- It removes the need for carbon in plants.
12Using the textbook diagram only, 36 trillion kg of CO2 enter annually and 22 trillion kg are removed. What follows?
- A net removal of 14 trillion kg.
- No net change because both flows are positive.
- A net addition of 58 trillion kg.
- A net addition of 14 trillion kg.
13Why does burning fossil fuel create a carbon-cycle imbalance?
- Carbon stored for very long periods is released faster than current systems remove it.
- Burning fuel removes more CO2 than photosynthesis.
- Fossil fuels contain no carbon.
- Land-use changes never influence atmospheric carbon.
14How can ocean carbon uptake produce a harmful side effect?
- It eliminates every effect of atmospheric warming.
- It can increase acidity and affect marine organisms.
- It necessarily increases ocean pH indefinitely.
- It removes the need to examine plankton or marine ecosystems.
15Which statement about electric vehicles is most accurate within the chapter's LCA discussion?
- Electricity has the same source in every place.
- Every electric car has zero impact across its full life.
- No combustion exhaust while driving does not mean zero manufacturing or electricity impacts.
- Battery recycling can never influence resource demand.
16How does a carbon offset differ from direct emissions prevention?
- It necessarily has no dependence on actual sequestration.
- It proves the original activity emitted nothing.
- It is another name for banning all energy use.
- It seeks compensation elsewhere rather than eliminating the original emission.
17Which change best illustrates slow fashion?
- No concern for supply-chain conditions.
- Rapid replacement with disposable trend items.
- Durable garments designed for repair, reuse, and long-term wear.
- Increased purchasing justified solely by lower unit prices.
18Why is high agricultural output per worker insufficient to prove energy efficiency?
- Machinery, fertilizers, transport, and processing may require substantial energy inputs.
- Only calories expended by human workers count as inputs.
- Worker productivity and system energy efficiency are identical.
- Chemical inputs require no production energy.
19What concern connects monocultures with ecological vulnerability?
- Monocultures necessarily maximize genetic and ecological variety.
- Species variety makes every agricultural system less resilient.
- Biodiversity is unrelated to food-system functioning.
- Reduced biodiversity can weaken resilience.
20Which issue belongs in an assessment of CAFOs?
- Concentrated waste, feed demand, pollution, and animal treatment.
- Only the retail price of meat.
- Only whether the enterprise has a website.
- The assumption that large-scale feeding has no energy requirements.
21A grocery chain reduces waste because saved inventory costs raise profits. Which interpretation is best?
- Financial gains prevent a practice from reducing ecological harms.
- The practice is consistent with TBL when financial gain is its main criterion.
- Any waste reduction necessarily proves SET purpose.
- Waste can only occur at the household level.
22Which option best matches the chapter's slow-food perspective?
- Ecological production, fair grower compensation, local connection, and less processed shared meals.
- Uniform anonymous supply chains regardless of impacts.
- Faster consumption as the only goal.
- More ultraprocessed food solely to increase sales.
23Why can active commuting serve both ecological and physical well-being?
- It can replace fossil-fuel travel while providing physical activity.
- It has no connection to transport emissions.
- It eliminates all workplace risks automatically.
- It is useful only if the firm's profit is maximized.
24Which statement captures the precautionary principle?
- Consider only short-term financial returns when safety is uncertain.
- Assume all new technology is inherently harmful without assessment.
- For reasonably risky actions, lack of conclusive harm evidence is not enough; proponents should demonstrate safety.
- Use every chemical until harm is conclusively established.
25A company markets recyclable bottles but encourages ever more single-use consumption and shifts blame to consumers. What should an analysis examine?
- The assumption that recycling claims settle every life-cycle impact.
- Only whether its advertisement uses green colors.
- Only whether customers have ever littered.
- Both the production model and the credibility and boundaries of its sustainability claims.
26Which lecture example is an externality?
- The recorded invoice paid for fabric.
- A factory's pollution imposes community harm that is absent from its recorded expenses.
- The recorded wage payment to a worker.
- The recorded cash receipt from a clothing sale.