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“When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another…” EDWARD LORENZ, American mathematician and meteorologist
In time of globalisation that’s more and more true. The future of the Northern and the Southern hemispheres are strongly interrelated. For example, a war or an economic crisis in a country can push affected people to look for a shelter in other countries… Environmental crisis in some remote areas can produce dramatic effects kilometres and kilometres away the place they originated (pollution don’t know borders), and so on. Still, the gap between the North and the South is far from being closed. That’s here we play with the interrelated nature of the world we live in and at the same time the North-South growing unbalances… - If you have already a certain knowledge of the global population trends and its impacts on the environment and want to test your knowledge, we suggest you to have a look at the Preserving and enhancing the global commons quiz [http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072890363/student_view0/chapter16/chapter_quiz.html], edited by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education, USA, and based on the John T. Rourke’s “International Politics on the World Stage” 10th edition book. What’s the link between population growth and environmental depletion? How big the gap between the North and the South of the world in terms of energy access and consumption is? What’re the main deforestation impacts?
- Wanting to know more about North-South development cooperation? Take the Development challenge [www.worldbank.org/challenge/html/innovate_q1.html] quiz edited by the Development Education Program of The World Bank and use your imagination to build a more sustainable world… Simple still smart solutions can really make a big difference! A
- Based on the text written by Steve Hackett “Environmental and Natural Resources Economics: Theory, Policy, and the Sustainable Society”, this true or false quiz [www.humboldt.edu/~envecon/econ_309/quiz4.htm] leads you to test your knowledge about the meaning of sustainable development: even if you didn’t read the book, the game is a source of very interesting information about economics, environment and sustainability. A
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