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Question 1
Climate change is a social problem because:
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i Only greenhouse gas emissions from social practices lead to climate change.
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i All that really matters is the effect of climate change on people.
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i Responding to climate change requires social changes.
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i Social responses to climate change are inadequate.
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Question 2
The three key elements of vulnerability are:
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i Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity.
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i Social vulnerability, economic vulnerability and political vulnerability.
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i Risk, harm and consequences.
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i Knowledge, power, capital.
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Question 3
Which one of the following statements best describes the vulnerability of South Pacific Island nations to climate change?
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i Vulnerability to the effects of climate change varies greatly between South Pacific Island nations.
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i Climate models suggest that the effects of climate change will be similar across the South Pacific region; so South
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Pacific Island nations are equally vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
i South Pacific Island nations are culturally very similar; so they are equally vulnerable to the effects of climate
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change.
i Predicted sea level rise suggests that only nations with atoll morphologies (low-lying) are vulnerable to the effects
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of climate change.
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Question 4
Climate change will affect development in the South Pacific primarily because:
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i The effects of climate change on natural resource are likely to have significant flow-on effects on health,
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infrastructure, income, and food security in the region.
i Global aid programs and NGOs provide the main source of national income and this is expected to increase.
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i The main source of national income in the region is tourism, which is likely to be affected by the increased
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frequency of natural disasters.
i Climate change will increase rates of migration within the South Pacific.
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Question 5
In the Pacific, culture is primarily about a people’s relationship to:
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i Land, sea, community and religious institutions.
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i Securing and protecting land ownership through a warrior spirit.
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i Social standing: particularly that derived from personal income.
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i Nationalism and global political identity.
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Question 6
Which one of the following statements best describes the issue of forced migration in the Pacific?
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i Citizens of Pacific Island nations would prefer to have a choice about whether or not to migrate.
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i Forced migration will ensure that citizens of Pacific Island nations will lead better lives overall once they have rej
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settled into their host country.
i Citizens of Pacific Island nations see forced migration as a necessary and inevitable response to the effects of
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climate change.
i Forced migration will ensure that the culture of Pacific Island communities will be preserved elsewhere.
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Question 7
Adaptive capacity in the Pacific Islands is:
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i Often determined by local factors such as local environmental knowledge, customary decision-making processes,
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land tenure systems and kinship.
i Determined by the level and amount of support (technical and financial) available from external sources, such as
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foreign aid and development programs.
i Largely determined by national income (GDP per person).
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i Largely a function of institutional responsiveness and leadership.
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Question 8
Which one of the following statements best describes why Niue is vulnerable to climate change?
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i Climbing costs of cyclone recovery, crop and fishing losses and loss of culture through migration will increase.
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i Approximately 80% of its national income is from New Zealand official development assistance (ODA) funding.
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i Of its geological morphology: it is the world’s largest and highest single coral atoll.
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i It is not a member of the United Nations.
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Question 9
Land tenure in Tonga:
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i Creates vulnerability to flooding.
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i Favours those without social and financial capital.
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i Is characterised by its completely fair and equitable distribution of land amongst its inhabitants.
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i Robs those disadvantaged by it of their capacity to determine their future.
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Question 10
Which one of the following statements best describes the adaptive capacity of the citizens of Pacific Island nations?
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i Their adaptive capacity is underestimated.
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i The likely effects of climate change will happen too rapidly for them to adapt to.
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i The likely effects of climate change will be too unfamiliar for them to adapt to.
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i Culture is not a factor in adaptive capacity.
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