1) Which of the following would NOT be considered a measurable instrument for assessing social aspects of sustainable development programs?
a) taxes from businesses
b) level of education attained by the citizens of a country
c) level of involvement and participation in the policy process
d) levels of equity in both access to a healthy environment and a safe community
2) What type of policy analysis examines sustainability policy preferences based on the proposed policy’s costs to producers and citizens versus the benefits the environment regulation creates for society?
a) command and control analysis
b) regulatory proposals
c) benefit cost analysis
d) cultural analysis
3) What is the “EPI – Environmental Policy Integration”, and what other policy areas should EPI be integrated into as part of a government’s decision making process?
a) EPI is a conceptual framework and method to try to measure the integration of government directed environmental policies across different policy domains or areas; other policy areas included agriculture and energy.
b) EPI is a method to examine one specific environmental policy, energy policy and should not be used to analyze sustainability in other policy domains or areas because it does not apply to those areas; other policy areas include energy policy
c) EPI is a method to evaluate car emissions of States in the United States and focuses emission pollution limits to build an index for sustainable ozone levels; other policy areas include air pollution and energy
d) EPI is part of an economic organization measuring the finance sustainability of countries based on an index of factors ranging from income distribution to Gross Domestic Product per person; other policy areas include agricultural and energy policy domains.