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Why do Complex Adaptive Systems behave differently than simple systems? Choose the best answer. -
✔✔Complex adaptive systems exhibit emergent behavior?
The Earth Systems Engineering and Management 'mental model' sees the relationship between
humanity and nature in this manner: - ✔✔Nature and the humans are closely linked, with
human systems exerting significant influence over natural systems.
The "Navajo Bridge" story demonstrates that - ✔✔engineering problems are not entirely technical
Which of the following is NOT part of a reasonable procedure for applying sustainability to technology
design and management? - ✔✔Disregard different worldviews and scale/boundary issues
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) demands that companies publish only
proven reserves (of minerals and other natural resources) to their investors because: - ✔✔proven
reserves are a conservative estimate of what is available given the current state of technology and
current economic conditions, so it reduces the ability to defraud investors
Firm belief in the output of sophisticated global climate models may be ill-advised because the models
simply reflect our best understanding of complex physical phenomena, and sometimes--despite our
best efforts--demonstrate interpretational bias. - ✔✔True
Which type of complex system might have a hard time evolving? - ✔✔A system that is very stable
and structured where everything is connected to everything else?
Most wicked problems cannot be solved - ✔✔instead, they must be managed
, Why has sustainability had a difficult time catching hold as a strong concept in the United States? -
✔✔Because sustainability embeds social values that tend to be based on egalitarian
communitarianism
Equality of outcome is associated with: - ✔✔Egalitarianism
One of the biggest issues with simple definitions of sustainable development is: - ✔✔any
assumption that we know today what future generations will value and need is probably wrong, and
any enforcement of such assumptions constitutes temporal imperialism
Since we are not running out of fossil fuel resources and can continue burning them for energy
production for hundreds more years - ✔✔we must focus on the real problem which is what we
are doing with the combustion waste products like carbon dioxide
Cultural reactions to technology are: - ✔✔always happen and are often varied and
sometimes unpredictable
At what assessment level(s) do we discuss why specific technologies are developed? - ✔✔Level I
Technology system waves are also known as: - ✔✔Kondratiev waves
Which of these is NOT an emergent Sixth Wave Technology? - ✔✔Automobiles
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the implementation and expansion of railroads in the U.S.: -
✔✔the invention of the steam engine
The environmental impacts of the railroad are limited to damage done to the land on which the tracks,
stations, and switching yards are built. - ✔✔False
The infrastructure (e.g., roads, traffic signals, laws and regulations, gas stations) that
supports automobile travel is an example of: - ✔✔All of the above:
The real world complexity of coupled technology systems
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