1.What is a "commons"? How is it different from an "open access resource"?

2.What is Boyce’s “second tragedy of open access”?

3.Why are poor people much more likely to live around pollution?

4.Why did the 1984 Cerrell Report suggest that incinerators should not be placed within one mile and five mile radii of middle income and higher income neighborhoods [respectively]? (150-300 words)

5.Suppose you are told about two American cities -- one city where black residents had much higher exposure to industrial air toxics than the white residents, and a second city where the two groups had only a small difference in exposure. Based on this information, which city’s white residents, the first or the second, are likely to have the most exposure to air toxins? Why?

6.How does inequality contribute to environmental degradation?

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Answer 1 A commons refers to a shared resource such as land water or air that is collectively owned or managed by a community In a commons multiple individuals or groups have access to and use the res... View the full answer