Environmental Science, 10th Edition (Cunningham)

Chapter 23: Ecological Economics

GE Exercise: Mumbai, India

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Overview: Mumbai, India, p. 522

This area of Mumbai, India's largest city, has several large international hotel complexes, including the Hyatt, Meridien, and Grand Maratha hotels. Adjacent to this hotel and park complex are large, dense neighborhoods of low-income housing and slums. Classical economics predicts that the resources shared between these neighborhoods are finite, and that both cannot become wealthier at the same time. Neoclassical economics predicts that increasing wealth in the wealthy sector can spill over and raise incomes in low-income areas. Which of these viewpoints makes most sense to you?

1
One of our great economic challenges is reducing poverty in the growing cities of developing countries. Zoom out from the place marker and move around the image to find the margins of the city of Mumbai. About how long is the developed area, from north to south?
A)About 10 km
B)About 20 km
C)About 40 km
D)About 70 km
E)About 100 km
2
One of the positions of ecological economics is that resources must be internalized for economic stability. What are some of the resources on which a city like Mumbai depends?
A)Water for drinking, washing, and irrigation
B)Clean air for breathing
C)Soil and agriculture and fisheries for food
D)Energy resources for power
E)All of the responses above
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