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NR 435 Exam 3 UNHquestions and answers 2025
our perception of risk is shaped by - answer Our situation (age, gender,
racial identity, cultural identity, lived experience èour background)
Our familiarity with the risk
Our qualitative considerations (i.e. our feelings)
risk perception gap - answer natural extension of our hard-wired ability
to quickly size up threats, an ability that draws on much more than facts
alone
Heuristics or Biases - answer developed by Daniel Kahnedman
loss aversion - answer avoiding losses is more important than achieving
comparable gains
representative effect - answer how new info fits old patterns
Framing - answer how new info feels based on the context in which it is
presented
type 1 thinking - answer fast and easy
types 2 thinking - answer
Countries not included in the Paris aggreement - answer US Iran and
Turkey
Is the Paris agreement working? - answer we are on course to warm 3C
, What will happen if we go above 2C? - answer sea levels will rise 2 feet
30m people in coastal areas could be flooded each year by 2055
37% of the pop would face a severs heatwave every 5 years
388m people could be exposed to water scarcity and 195m will be exposed
to severe drought
maize crop yields could fall 9% by 2100
the global per-capita GDP could fall 13% by 2100
3 areas of risk perception - answer economic, environment and social
Why do opinions vary when it comes to climate change - answer
psychological and cultural
Highly impacted ecosystems - answer conversion of forests and
grasslands into cropland
diversion and storage of freshwater behind dams
the loss of mangrove and coral reef areas
Brazil amazon fires - answer 72,000 fires last year, 84% increase from
2018
reached record level of deforestation
5,019sq miles have been burned in 2020 (8 times the size of London)
Why is the Amazon burning? - answer president enforced mining, farming
and logging
agriculture lobby is powerful in Brazil
logs were not cleared out from last year, making it easy to burn
habitat quality - answer The ability of the environment to provide
conditions appropriate for individual and population persistence
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