Societal Responses to Regional Climate Change

Typical Exam Questions


1. What lessons can be learned about people's response to climate change by considering the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer?

2. Mickey Glantz studied several environmental disasters in the US to extract some general characteristics of how societies deal with impending environmental problems, like global warming. Use Glantz's results on societal behavior to forecast what will happen in China as it faces a variety of environmental problems.

3. Why did Mickey Glantz study the Ogallala aquifer, the Mississippi River, the Great Salt Lake, and other US regions in order to learn more about global warming?

4. Give the lessons learned from one of the case studies (ex. Ogallala aquifer, Mississippi River, Colorado River, etc.).

5. Ogallala aquifer

6. What does Glantz attempt to learn about future global climate change by studying past environmental crises?

7. There likely will be winners and losers in agricultural production under climate change.