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Erc 201: Emerging Environmental Issues Question Paper

Erc 201: Emerging Environmental Issues

Course:Emerging Environmental Issues

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2012

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2012/2013

FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE)

ERC 201: EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

DATE: WED 5TH DEC 2012 TIME: 8:00AM-10:00AM

INSTRUCTIONS

Answer Question ONE and any other THREE

Q1. a) i) What is your understanding of ''Emerging Environmental issue?'' (2mks)
ii). Explain the major characteristics that qualifies an environmental issue as emerging (8mks)

b) Using an emerging environmental issue of your choice, explain why its early detection is necessary (5mks)

c). Distinguish between the following:

i.) Primary pollutants and secondary pollutants (4mks)
ii.) Stratospheric ozone and tropospheric ozone (6mks)

Q2. As an environmental officer with UNEP, discuss using practical examples why atmospheric pollution, accelerated by rapid industrialization and urbanization is an issue of global concern. (15mks)

Q3. a). Describe the forms in which water resources degradation can be manifested (6mks)

b) Using appropriate examples, discuss the implications of such degradation in (a) above. (9mks)

Q4. Explain briefly, five environmental effects of continued use of traditional biomass energy in rural Kenya, and enumerate the long term gains nationally, in shifting to clean energy technologies (15mks)

Q5. "Land degradation occurs slowly and cumulatively, and has long lasting impacts, on rural people who become increasingly vulnerable. (Muchena 2008)". Discuss. (15mks).

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