What defines the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incu

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试卷: LEED v4 GA模拟题B卷[查看]
What defines the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit?
A: Ponzi schemes
B: Externalities
C: The Butterfly Effect
D: The Prius Effect

参考答案: B

本题解释:
正确答案：B
系统解析: Knowledge Domain: Project Surroundings and Public Outreach

In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit. With regard to the environment, it could be the building of a dam that prevents the fish from swimming upstream, thus destroying the fishing industry in towns upstream. Or the production of smoke from a factory that may create clean-up costs to reduce air pollution by nearby residents. However, over the past few years, since the idea of the Triple Bottom Line has gone mainstream, businesses are also looking at providing environmental and social stewardship information to all its stakeholders. The idea of a Green Bottom Line will create a win-win for both the environment and the profits.
Ponzi scheme: a good example of a positive feedback system because its output (profit) is fed back to the input (new investors), causing rapid growth toward collapse. Feedback systems are part of Systems Thinking.