Define Sustainability

What three types of sustainability exist?

Define businesses:

Give three reasons why businesses would do sustainability:

Explain what the Brundtland report is all about:

What is ecological modernization?

Why is sustainable development considered to be an oxymoron?

What is eco-efficiency?

What is eco-effectiveness?

Explain the circular economy model:

Explain Cradle to Cradle:

How are businesses linked to ethics, the environment and society?

Explain why eco-efficiency is not the solution for ever:

Explain the term down cycling and give an example of down cycling:

Define the word environment:

Define Anthropocene:

What are the 4 different types of environment in the book:

Explain the difference between direct and indirect environmental impact:

What is the greenhouse effect?

What is joint implementation?

Explain emissions trading:

What is meant with the clean development mechanism?

Explain the meaning behind the limits to growth report:

Why is loss of biodiversity such an crucial problem?

Explain the difference between dominant ethics and land ethics

What is meant with anthropocentrism?

Explain the term eco centrism:

What is shallow ecology?

What is deep ecology?

Explain how the industrial revolution has impacted the environment:

How do politics affect the environment?

Explain the concept of lobbying:

What is meant with Race to the bottom?

Give three examples of factors that caused climate change to proceed:

What is meant with commodification of nature?

What 3 things does the UNEP ecosystem management program focus on?

Define waste:

What is climate change?

What is TEEB?

Give an example of an industrial disaster:

Define absolute poverty:

Define relative poverty:

What do both absolute and relative poverty forget to account for?

Why is the objective to end poverty meaningless if population growth is not

addressed?

Explain the dependency theory:

Explain the term neo-colonialism:

Explain the term post-colonialism:

Why do some people doubt if economic development helps poverty problems?

Explain why the population has grown so rapidly in the past decades and is rapidly
growing in the future:

Explain the demographic transition theory:

Explain the term green revolution:

Explain the term Fordism:

What is meant with post-fordism?

Explain how energy technology, medical technology and population growth relate to
sustainability:

Why are social and environmental problems considered as problems of

globalization?

What are universal forms of human interaction with the environment?

How has the industrial revolution affected globalization?

What are the three forces of modern capitalism that affected globalization?

What are the four schools of globalization thinkers and explain each views.

Explain the term risk-society;

What are the 4 requirements for eco-sensitive leadership?

What is the relationship between globalization and sustainability?

Explain conspicuous consumption:

What is consumer choice editing and how does it relate to sustainable consumption?

What two opportunities exist to make consumption more sustainable?

What is fair trade?

What are the 5 major stakeholder for green global supply chains?

5 parts supporting the circular economy: (Page 90)

How is neo-liberal democracy linked to globalization?

Explain the neo-liberalism theory:

Explain how education relates to poverty and sustainability in a global context.

What are the 2 greatest challenges towards sustainability?

Explain the idea behind the charity paradox.

What are the three fundamental problems of cradle-to-grave?

Explain the difference between upcycling and down cycling:

Explain the critique on the triple bottom line approach:

Explain the critique on sustainable consumption:

Explain the relationship between neo-liberalism and environmental protection.

What is meant with the Rebound effect?

Explain the concept of biospheric egalitarianism.

What is meant with intergenerational justice?

Explain the term environmental justice:

What is environmental racism?

Define the term sharing economy

According to Kaplan(2000) 4 suggestions can make businesses both profitable and

sustainable.

Explain environmental impact.

What 2 types of environmental impact exist? Give examples.

Explain the difference between private sphere - and public sphere

environmentalism.

How can businesses and NGOs work together for a better world?

What is green investment?

How do oil dependency and climate skepticism relate to solving sustainable

problems?

Explain the term business ecosystem.

What is industrial ecology about?

Explain the concept of Biomicry A.K.A. biomimetics.

What are the three key principles of biomicry?

Explain Cradle to Cradle.

What are the three key principles of Cradle to Cradle?

Explain the circular economy concept and how it relates to the product service shift
trend.

What is the circular economy report about?

What is the blue economy ?

What main principle is the ZERI network based on?

Give 3 examples out of the 21 blue economy principles.

Define business ethics:

Explain why business ethics is considered to be an oxymoron:

How does business ethics differ from law?

What does it mean that many ethical questions are equivocal?

Define morality:

What are ethical theories?

Give 4 reasons why business ethics is important (out of 8)

Explain how business ethics differs between large corporations and small
businesses. (figure 1.5)

Define globalization:

What are the three components of sustainability?

How has globalization affected business ethics?

Explain the two extremes of ethical theories.

What is meant with pluralism?

What two assumptions does Kaler makes towards morality?

What are the 3 main differences in ethical theories between various parts of the
world?

What is the difference between consequential and non-consequential theories?

What are the 4 major normative theories in business ethics? Provide their details in
the following tables
Name theory:
Focus:
Concept of
human being:
Type:

Give three problems that come with utilitarianism:

What is the difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism.

Define the ethical theory egoism.

What are the three maxims of Immanuel Kant towards ethics of duties?

What is the core difference between a religious approach and kant approach?

What are three short comings of the ethics of duties theory?

Define natural rights:

Define justice:

In what 2 ways do ethics of justice see fairness?

Name and explain 3 of the 6 criticisms on western theories:

Define virtues:

What are post-modern ethics about?

Explain feminist ethics:

What are three key elements in feminist ethics?

Define discourse ethics:

What 4 things does post-modern ethics suggests:

How does a typical ethical perspective differ from a pluralist perspective for solving
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What is the difference between descriptive and normative ethical theories?

What are the four steps of the ethical decision making process?

What are the 6 steps of Kohlberg cognitive moral development theory?

What are the two main types of issue related factors in ethical decision making?

How does bureaucracy impacts ethical decision making?

Define government:

Define Laws:

Define Regulation:

Explain the tragedy of the commons problem:

What makes governments dependent on businesses?

Explain how governments are also competing with businesses. Give an example.

give two examples of issues in the relationship between businesses and

governments.

What are the 3 modes by which businesses have an influence on governments.

Define lobbying and give an example

What are the five different types of lobbying?

What is meant with "corruption"?

Name three common problems that arise from privatization and explain them.

Explain what Private-Public partnerships(PPP) mean and why they are often
criticized.

What is meant with the "post-Westphalian setting"? (globalization p516)

what are the 6 different features of the transition into the post-westphalian setting?

Explain how corporations can take advantage of the shift towards transnational
regulations.

Define the term imperative regulation?

What 3 things should MNC be involved with in terms of moral duties concerning
regimes.

Explain the concept of "Race to the bottom". (p522)

Give three reasons why news forms of regulation have emerged.

Why are western ethical theories considered to be absolute?