1.
To what extent would an anthropocentric approach to addressing human population
growth be the most successful in maintaining a sustainable population?
2. To what extent can the practical strategies for obtaining data for a pyramid of numbers
be made reliable? [9]
3. Evaluate management strategies for reducing the impact of agricultural pollution on an
aquatic ecosystem. [9]
4. To what extent are the concepts of natural capital and natural income helpful in
managing the sustainable use of natural resources? [9]
5. with reference to named examples, discuss the significance of diversity in the
sustainability of food production systems.
6. To what extent is the need for conservation more significant in tropical biomes?
7. To what extent are water scarcity issues better addressed through changing human
behaviour than through technological development?
8. To what extent are natural limiting factors more likely than population policies to limit
global human population growth in the future?
9. Human activities have improved global air quality during the past 50 years. With
reference to examples, discuss this statement.
10. With reference to named societies, to what extent do environmental value systems
influence the use of resource
11. Using examples, discuss how social, cultural, political and economic factors influence
societies in their choice of food production systems.
12. IN addressing environmental issues, mitigation strategies may be seen as primarily
ecocentric and adaptation strategies as primarily technocentric.
13. To what extent is this view valid in the context of named strategies for addressing the
issue of global warming
14. In this context, to what extent can aquatic food production systems be truly sustainable?
15. Discuss the role of feedback mechanisms in maintaining the stability and promoting the
restoration of plant communities threatened by human impacts.
16. The future growth of human populations is unlikely to be limited by the availability
of energy resources. However, they could easily be limited by the impacts of energy
production.
17. To what extent can the different environmental value systems improve the sustainability
of food production?
18. Discuss how human activities impact the flows and stores in the nitrogen cycle. [9]
19. To what extent would different environmental value systems be successful in reducing
a society’s ecological footprint? [9]
20. Even though there is growing global support for ecocentric values, the global
consumption of fossil fuels continues to rise each year. With reference to energy choices
in named countries, discuss possible reasons for this situation occurring.
21. Discuss the potential for designing a protected forest area that allows for the harvesting
of natural resources while at the same time conserving its biodiversity.
22. To what extent do the approaches and strategies of different environmental value
systems improve access to fresh water?
23. Disturbance of the composition and processes of the atmospheric system through
human activity always disturbs the equilibria of marine systems.
Discuss the validity of this statement with reference to named examples
.
24. Quantitative models are frequently constructed to show the flow of energy and cycling of
matter in natural systems.To what extent can these models be useful in assessing the
sustainability of named food production systems? [9]
25. Disturbance of the composition and processes of the atmospheric system through
human activity always disturbs the equilibria of marine systems.
Discuss the validity of this statement with reference to named examples.
26. To what extent can different environmental value systems contribute to both causing
and resolving the problem of water scarcity?
27. Using examples, discuss whether habitat conservation is more successful than a
species-based approach to protecting threatened species. [9]
28. Discuss strategies that can be used to improve the sustainability of food production
systems. [9]
29. Discuss the consequences of changing global per capita meat consumption on the
conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity.
30. Examine the driving factors behind the changing energy choices of different countries
using named examples.[9]
31. To what extent are the concepts of net productivity and natural income useful in
managing the sustainable harvesting of named resources from natural ecosystems?
32. Environmental value systems differ in how they view the importance of biodiversity and
this could influence a community’s approach to conservation.Discuss how these different
perspectives, including your own, may influence approaches to conservation
33. The provision of food resources and assimilation of wastes are two key factors of the
environment that determine its carrying capacity for a given species.To what extent does
the human production of food and waste each influence the carrying capacity for human
populations?[9]
34. Pollution management strategies may be aimed at either preventing the production of
pollutants or limiting their release into ecosystems. With reference to either acid
deposition or eutrophication, evaluate the relative efficiency of these two approaches to
management.
35. Discuss the role of humans in the destabilization of ecological systems
36. The management of a resource can impact the production of solid domestic waste.To
what extent have the three levels of the pollution management model been successfully
applied to the management of solid domestic waste?
37. Discuss the implications of environmental value systems for the protection of tropical
biomes.
