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118.
Interdependence requires careful ____________ all along the value chain.
119.
That the business would allocate the gains from doing business to a wide array of
stakeholders speaks to the need for ___________ in the sustainability context.
120.
_________________ is one way businesses have approached control of their value chains to
promote equity.
121.
Sustainable business models are complex, involving more _______ and adding specialized
areas to the more traditional business model.
122.
Europe's more densely populated cities may account partially for higher levels of
__________ values than in the individualistic United States, which is a positive force for
sustainability.
123.
Europe follows the _________________ approach to environmentalism, which calls for
regulation at the first sign of a possible danger and puts the duty on industry to prove that
its products are not dangerous.
124.
In the U.S., the government's ___________ regulates chemicals that pose an unreasonable
risk to humans.
125.
Stakeholder theory calls for businesses to address the network of _________ caused by the
competing internal and external demands within which the business exists.
126.
Companies can use _____________ to share their performance results across
sustainability's larger business context.
127.
_______________ points out the connection between interdependence and compassion.
128.
The ecosystem in which we live and do business and which is the basis for everything we
do as humans is known as ______________.
129.
A country's ____________ explains many of its political and trade relationships.
130.
____________'s location makes it a critical replenishment port in Asia.
131.
____________, the features of the earth's surface, contributes to differences in economies,
cultures, politics, and social structures wherever they occur.
132.
In _____, the government established an official language in 1956, recognizing that
language diversity was hindering the country's economic development.
133.
Every western coast between 20 and 30 degrees north or south of the equator is dry,
except where there is a major source of fresh water, as in _________, where there is there
a concentration of population.
134.
Because ___________ has so much arid land, its population is spread along the coasts,
giving it one of the highest percentages of urban population in the world.
135.
In densely populated areas, marketing and distribution costs are usually _______ than in
sparsely populated areas.
136.
In general, water costs are ____________ in slum areas than in wealthy areas.
137.
Inland ________________ provide inexpensive access to inland markets.
138.
____________ is the only continent without an inland waterway system.
139.
The _____________ waterway has become the world's most important inland waterway
system.
140.
The set of meteorological conditions of temperature, precipitation, and wind that prevail in
a region constitutes that region's ___________.
141.
Some writers have used climate differences to explain differences in human and economic
development. This explanation is known as the ________________.
142.
Energy that comes from sources that cannot be replenished is known as _____________
energy.
143.
______________ has been a cheap source of energy and a raw material for plastics,
fertilizers, and other industrial applications.
144.
_______ generates 75 percent of its electrical energy by nuclear power.
145.
_______________ leads the world in recoverable coal reserves.
146.
The category of fuels whose energy source is photosynthesis is known as ___________.
147.
The two main types of solar power are ___________ and concentrating solar thermal.
148.
The _________________, developed by M. King Hubbert, a geologist for Shell, holds that
oil's decline will follow a specific curve into terminal decline.
149.
_______________ are widely dispersed and don't often occur in concentrations that make
their mining commercially viable.
