2.4 Building Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Quiz

What is environmental stewardship?

• Exploring outer space

• Developing new technologies

• Building high-rise buildings

• Supervising or taking care of the environment

How can community resilience be developed?

• By cutting down all trees

• By increasing pollution levels

• By building more shopping malls

• By strengthening relationships among residents

What is disaster risk management?

• Ignoring safety protocols

• Creating more hazards in a community

• Building structures without considering risks

• Plans and actions to prevent, reduce, and manage disaster risks

What are hazards?

• Safe and secure environments

• Harmless activities

• Processes, phenomena, or human activities that may cause loss and damage

• Activities that promote well-being

How may sustainable urban neighbourhoods be built?

• Through environmental stewardship, disaster risk management, and community resilience

• By ignoring environmental concerns

• By focusing only on economic development

• By isolating the community from the environment

What is the job of environmental stewardship?

• To supervise or take care of the environment

• To create pollution

• To destroy natural resources

• To harm ecosystems

What is disaster risk?

• Likelihood of damage from a disaster

• Certainty of safety in a community

• Absence of any risks

• Predictability of disasters

What is community resilience?

• Ability to resist, adapt, and recover from disasters

• Inability to cope with challenges

• Lack of support from neighbors

• Dependence on external help

How can residents promote volunteerism in the community?

• By sharing knowledge about healthy ecosystems

• By avoiding community activities

• By isolating themselves from neighbors

• By not participating in any events

What is the role of public and private stakeholders in environmental stewardship?

• To come together to steward the environment

• To ignore environmental concerns

• To create more hazards

• To exploit natural resources