scholarly journals Title: Life after COVID-19: Understanding the environment for humanity's survival and sustenance

2020 ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Ioannis Ladas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Environmental Deterioration ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Environmental Amelioration

The severe restrictive measures imposed in dealing with Covid-19 have altered, among others, our environmental footprint. First reports are especially encouraging, showing reductions in CO2 emissions and improved air quality. In the present essay I shall investigate whether there is a “positive side” to a pandemic that leaves thousands of dead and causes world-wide economic crisis. I shall maintain – with great reservation- that the outcome might have been in the affirmative, while noting that blind approval of the environmental amelioration, due to the imposed restrictions, entails great risk, since it may be born of a dark eco-fascist ideology, promoting peremptory, fascist ideas towards improving the environment. Alongside I shall emphasize that a new Policy is necessary, i.e. a new Ethics, within the framework of rationalizing our relationship with the natural world. Besides, the rate of environmental deterioration does not allow retrospective re-contemplation of everything occurring in our socio-political reality. Consequently, I shall conclude it is required that world economies prosper again while the environment is protected, and that data collected during the quarantine period must serve as orientators for governments in the implementation of their recovery plans.

scholarly journals VALUE-SENSE MANAGEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1(82)) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
A. Kurbatov ◽  
L. Kurbatova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Sufficient Degree ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Practical

The greatest crisis, which is being experienced by the world economy, has not come unexpectedly, since it was predicted with a sufficient degree of precision. Moreover, the matters, causing obstacles for the transformation in the period of transition from the mixed economy to the intellectual economy, have been studied well enough and the technologies of the harmonious transformation have not just been developed but also successfully approbated. However, the crisis is escalating with increasing strength, and many analysts are warning against the risk of irreversible losses, that threaten the mankind with self-destruction due to the effect of 'the lacuna' and 'the gap' between the speed of changes in life conditions and the velocity of growth of human and humanity abilities to adapt to fast changing conditions of ecological, economic, technological and political reality. As anticipated, the main problem turned out to be the intellectual inertia. Despite the fact that the system analysis of the global crisis in education, which does not any longer provide the human and humanity with the proper competencies, even those necessary for the survival, was published by F.G.Coobles back in 1968, the approaches which are long outdated and, therefore, have become dangerous, are still widely spread all over the world. The reports of the Roman club have repeatedly highlighted that the overcoming of 'the lacuna' effect requires new approaches to education, but this has not led to large scale practical results, in spite of the fact, that the task of the development of the new system of the continuous anti-crisis education (for all ages) was accomplished back in the USSR and the experimental model proved to be efficient in process of the 20 years approbation in conditions of the Russian Federation. The psychological bareers arising during the transition from the programme goal method to the system-synergetic approach, from the crisis model of economy to value-sense one, from the subject-object relations to the subject-subject ones and others, have turned to be hard to overcome without the help of specialists, equipped with the methods of the value-sense management, which enable each subject, experiencing the negative impact of the modern economic crisis, to successfully overcome it. This article is dedicated to the peculiarities of the author's scientific-practical school of the value-sense management as a means of overcoming the modern economic crisis. 

The Swiss National Council Elections of 1931

1932 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-353
Author(s):  
Harold F. Gosnell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
World Wide ◽  
National Government ◽  
National Council ◽  
Minor Parties ◽  
Liberal Democrats ◽  
The World

On October 24 and 25, 1931, the Swiss voters selected the members of their National Council for the next four years. The election was of unusual importance because the world-wide depression has created an economic crisis in Switzerland. Unemployment has been increasing, banks have been failing, and the national government has been piling up a deficit. A flood of candidates were in the field for the 187 seats now in the National Council (11 less than in the outgoing Council). Of the total of 740 candidates, 193 were nominated by the Independent Democrats, 141 by the Catholic Conservatives, 152 by the Socialists, 85 by the Peasants, 28 by the Liberal Democrats, 77 by the Communists, and 64 by the minor parties.

Global panic reaction – A therapeutic approach to a world-wide economic crisis

2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Sperling ◽  
T. Biermann ◽  
J.M. Maler
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Therapeutic Approach ◽  
World Wide

The End of the Old World

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Nader
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Research Publication ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Geography ◽  
The Impact

We are now, in 1992, searching to find the meaning of an event 500 years distant in time. For us as Americans the importance of the Columbian voyages is obvious. In the past ten years the great wealth of research, publication, and debate on ancient American cultures has made the impact on the Americas abundantly clear.For Europe the impact is much less clear. We say that the old world ended almost immediately, that a new world came into being when Europe ended its isolation from America. By this we mean that European perceptions of world geography began to change as early as 1498 —not just dotting the map of the Ocean Sea with more islands, but perceiving that South America was a continent whose existence was never imagined by the ancients. We also mean that the natural world began changing from the old world of two separate ecologies into a new world-wide environment.

scholarly journals An Illustration to Ælfric’s De temporibus anni in Ælfwine’s Prayerbook

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-258
Author(s):  
Loredana Teresi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
British Library ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe present essay discusses a diagram found in London, British Library, Cotton Titus D.xxvii+xxvi, the so-called Ælfwine’s Prayerbook. The diagram, which appears on fol. 21 v (see Figure 1), has been interpreted by most scholars as an incomplete tidal rota or an incomplete wind rota (as it contains only 4 out of the canonical 12 winds). A detailed, comparative analysis of the features of the diagram, however, proves that the hypothesis of the tidal rota must be discarded in favour of that of the wind diagram. Moreover, an analysis of the manuscript contents and of the way in which the manuscript was written reveals a close connection between the diagram and Ælfric’s De temporibus anni, showing that the diagram is complete in its present form, and was inspired by the Ælfrician text. My study shows that the rota constitutes an illustration to the discussion of the winds appearing in the De temporibus anni and, at the same time, a representation of the Cross and of the close connection between God and the natural world, perfectly integrated within Ælfwine’s interests and architectural plans, as well as within the “visual-exegetical method” (Kühnel 2003) of the period.

scholarly journals Sponge-like Chitosan Based Porous Monolith for Uraemic Toxins Sorption

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2247
Author(s):  
Siyu Xiong ◽  
Yaxuan Lyu ◽  
Andrew Davenport ◽  
Kwang Leong Choy
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Perfusion Model ◽  
Pass Perfusion ◽  
Carbon Additives ◽  
Porous Monolith ◽  
New Generation

More than three million patients are treated for kidney failure world-wide. Haemodialysis, the most commonly used treatment, requires large amounts of water and generates mountains of non-recyclable plastic waste. To improve the environmental footprint, dialysis treatments need to develop absorbents to regenerate the waste dialysate. Whereas conventional dialysis clears water-soluble toxins, it is not so effective in clearing protein-bound uraemic toxins (PBUTs), such as indoxyl sulfate (IS). Thus, developing absorption devices to remove both water-soluble toxins and PBUTs would be advantageous. Vapour induced phase separation (VIPS) has been used in this work to produce polycaprolactone/chitosan (PCL/CS) composite symmetric porous monoliths with extra porous carbon additives to increase creatinine and albumin-bound IS absorption. Moreover, these easy-to-fabricate porous monoliths can be formed into the required geometry. The PCL/CS porous monoliths absorbed 436 μg/g of albumin-bound IS and 2865 μg/g of creatinine in a single-pass perfusion model within 1 h. This porous PCL/CS monolith could potentially be used to absorb uraemic toxins, including PBUTs, and thus allow the regeneration of waste dialysate and the development of a new generation of environmentally sustainable dialysis treatments, including wearable devices.

scholarly journals The peculiarities of economic crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic in a developing country: case of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohdan Danylyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Electricity Production ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
National Bank ◽  
Restrictive Measures

At the beginning of 2020, the world faced the most frightening threat to the population’s health – COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, the international institutions, governments of countries and various organizations are forced to use unprecedented restrictive measures in many spheres of activity. As a result, the economies of the countries all over the world are significantly affected and are on the verge of crisis. This paper presents examples of economic consequences of COVID-19 pandemic for different countries of the world and analyzes still few scientific works, which study the influence of pandemic on their economies. The article generalizes the legislative and anti-crisis measures of the Ukrainian Government, as well as the National Bank of Ukraine and other state authorities. It is evidenced that at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, Ukraine witnessed a significant decrease in GDP growth rate, reduction of industrial production and electricity production. The financial indicators also underwent significant losses, particularly the unemployment rate increased as thousands and thousands of labor migrants have returned to Ukraine from European and other countries. The article proves the inconsistency and unprofessionalism of such restrictive and regulatory measures. Finally, the necessity is substantiated to combine the methods of market economy and state regulation. The compulsory steps are offered, which would minimize the losses of the state and its population during this economic crisis.

AN INTERWOVEN WORLD: GARY SNYER'S CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-144
Author(s):  
David Landis Barnhill
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Ecological Theory ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Gary Snyder ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Spiritual Learning ◽  
Cultural Borrowing ◽  
Healthy Relationship

AbstractIn his poetry and essays, Gary Snyder has developed a syncretic blending of two cultures: Buddhist and Native American. He has written about their similarities and historical links, and has noted how their differences complement one other. Such an intercultural project has been criticized by those who have claimed that one cannot simply take ideas and values from foreign cultures: they are culturally embedded and we are bound to the character and limits of our culture. In addition, some Native Americans have called his cultural borrowing from their culture an inauthentic "white shamanism." Snyder, however, would argue that shamanism and animism are world-wide human phenomena and have been kept alive in what he calls the Great Subculture. Modern people can have access to them through serious and humble spiritual learning. Two concepts can help us understand Snyder's intercultural project. The first is Bahktin's notion of "anotherness," in which difference is affirmed but dialogue and exchange are possible. The second is an ecological theory of culture, which argues against cultural essentialism by recognizing that cultures are both distinct and interwoven and ever changing. Thus authentic intercultural borrowing is a possibility. For Snyder, it is also a necessity if we are to develop a healthy relationship to each other and the natural world.

scholarly journals Economic Impacts of Chemical Use Reduction on the South

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Robert Taylor ◽  
John B. Penson ◽  
Edward G. Smith ◽  
Ronald D. Knutson
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Point Contact ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Agricultural Chemicals ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Wildlife Population ◽  
Productivity Gains

A growing segment of society is concerned about a myriad of health and environmental issues related to the use of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. Despite the leveling-off of agricultural chemical use in the 1980s, chemical use in agriculture has come to be seen as a two-edged sword. On the positive side, agricultural chemicals have become the engine for world-wide productivity gains. These chemicals have contributed to increased yields per acre and have reduced waste in storage and distribution. On the negative side, agricultural chemicals are perceived by many to present risks to the safety of the food we eat, to the quality of our drinking water, to the wildlife population, to applicators and to people who inadvertently come into point contact with them.

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