Post-Consumer Waste

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina Ene
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Decision ◽  
World Population ◽  
Irrational Behavior ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
The One ◽  
Global And Local Optimization ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Actual Society ◽  
Human Rationality

The complexity of purchase decision process goes beyond economic and human rationality boundaries, leading to increased amounts spent inappropriately, including, implicitly, significant quantities of post-consumer waste. Excessive waste of resources, reflected in massive quantities of abandoned goods on the one hand, and on the other - insufficient access to resources for a significant part of the world population - are topical issues that are based on overall irrational behavior of consumers and society, requiring global and local optimization by strategies involving all interested parties. The paper aims to formulate and emphasize actual problems and prospects regarding the rationality of consumer behavior towards waste creating and disposal, trying to answer the following question: given that the actual society is facing a series of irreversible ecological problems, what needs to be done in order to reduce post consumer-waste and to promote environmentally and resources friendly behaviors?

The Future of Water

2019 ◽  
pp. 227-232
Author(s):  
Edward B. Barbier
Keyword(s):  
Water Security ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystem ◽  
World Population ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Global Management ◽  
Market Signals ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

This concluding chapter looks at the future of water. There are two possible paths for managing water. First, if the world continues with inadequate governance and institutions, incorrect market signals, and insufficient innovations to improve efficiency and manage competing demands, most chronic water and scarcity problems will continue to worsen. The world will see a future of declining water security, freshwater ecosystem degradation, and increasing disputes and conflicts over remaining water resources. The alternative path to managing water is the one offered by this book. If, in anticipation of the coming decades of increasing water scarcity, humankind is able to develop appropriate governance and institutions for water management, instigate market and policy reforms, and address global management issues, then improved innovation and investments in new water technologies and better protection of freshwater ecosystems should secure sufficient beneficial water use for a growing world population.

scholarly journals Sign Language Generation - A survey of techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 473-476
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Population ◽  
Speech Impairment ◽  
Normal People ◽  
The World ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
The One ◽  
Generating System

Sign language is a visual language that uses body postures and facial expressions. It is generally used by hearing-impaired people as a source of communication. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 466 million people (5% of the world population) are with hearing and speech impairment. Normal people generally do not understand this sign language and hence there is a communication gap between hearing-impaired and other people. Different phonemic scripts were developed such as HamNoSys notation that describes sign language using symbols. With the development in the field of artificial intelligence, we are now able to overcome the limitations of communication with people using different languages. Sign language translating system is the one that converts sign to text or speech whereas sign language generating system is the one that converts speech or text to sign language. Sign language generating systems were developed so that normal people can use this system to display signs to hearing-impaired people. This survey consists of a comparative study of approaches and techniques that are used to generate sign language. We have discussed general architecture and applications of the sign language generating system.

scholarly journals A Compact Macromodel of World System Evolution

2005 ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Korotayev
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
World System ◽  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World Population ◽  
World Population Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One

The fact that up to the 1960s world population growth had been characterized by a hyperbolic trend was discovered quite some time ago. A number of mathematical models describing this trend have already been proposed. Some of these models are rather compact but do not account for the mechanisms of this trend; others account for this trend in a very convincing way, but are rather complex. In fact, the general shape of world population growth dynamics could be accounted for with strikingly simple models like the one which we would like to propose ourselves: dN/dt = a (bK – N) N (1); dK/dt = cNK (2), where N is the world population, K is the level of technology/knowledge, bKcorresponds to the number of people (N), which the earth can support with the given level of technology (K). Empirical tests performed by us suggest that the proposed set of two differential equations account for 96.2– 99.78% of all the variation in demographicmacrodynamics of the world in the last 12,000 years. We believe that the patterns observed in pre-modern world population growth are not coincidental at all. In fact, they reflect population dynamics of quite a real entity, the world system. Note that the presence of a more or less well integrated world system comprising most of the world population is a necessary precondition, without which the correlation between the world population numbers generated by hyperbolic growth models and the observed ones would not be especially high. In fact, our findings could be regarded as a striking illustration of the fact well known in complexity studies — that chaotic dynamics at the microlevel can generate a highly deterministic macrolevel behavior. Against this background it is hardly surprising to find that the simplest regularities accounting for extremely high proportions of all the macrovariation can be found just for the largest possible social system — the world system.

THE INCREASING ROLE OF THE DIGITAL BODY IN THE HUMAN CAPITAL: CHANGES IN THE NATURE IF COMMUNICATIONS

Communicology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
SERGEY KRAVCHENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Surveillance ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Global And Local

The research is conditioned by the necessity to analyze new opportunities for the development of the human capital and the challenges to it, caused by the digital transformation. It is substantiated that under the influence of the time arrow effects (I. Prigozhin) the development of the human capital goes at an accelerating pace and in a more complicated way in the context of the formation of the complex socio-digital-natural reality. The process of the digitalization has an ambivalent impact on the content and character of the human capital: on the one hand, individuals, starting from their early socialization, use smart machines for self-development, communicate not only with their parents and peers, as it used to be, but practically with people around the world, grasping the diversity of cultures and creating their “digital bodies”; however, on the other hand, the digitalization depletes the values of their own world of life, minimizes face-to-face communication, dehumanizes education and training; however, on the other hand, digitalization dilutes the values of their own life world, minimizes face-to-face communications, and dehumanizes the education at “McUniversities” (G. Ritzer). Accordingly, there are limits to how the digital transformation can be used to develop the human capital. The challenges of COVID-19 to the functionality of the human capital at both the global and local levels are particularly addressed. At the same time, in the author’s opinion, U. Beck’s idea of the “metamorphosis of the world”, expressed in the emergence of the “positive side effects of the bads”, is applicable to the pandemic. In this connection, it is argued that the qualitatively new opportunities for the development of the human capital under conditions of the socio-natural turbulence and the coexistence of people with viruses are emerging in a non-linear way, including: the emergence of the homo epidemiologicus as a new social type - an individual who during his/her life reflexes to the epidemiological situation; the transition to the digital medical surveillance with a humanistic orientation; the distant treatment of those who have fallen ill according to the data of their “digital body”; the creation of the prerequisites for recognizing the unity of the human capital of the peoples of the world.

A Review on Approaches of Edible Coating as Potential Packaging for Meat, Poultry and Seafood

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 874-883
Author(s):  
Punam Gat ◽  
Shafiya Rafiq ◽  
Thelamparambath Vysakh ◽  
Yogesh Gat ◽  
Roji Waghmare
Keyword(s):  
Composite Coatings ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Edible Coating ◽  
World Population ◽  
Biodegradable Films ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Quality Of Food

The World population is increasing continuously and to fulfil the requirement of future generation food supply needs to be increased. Food availability and accessibility can be increased by increasing production, improving distribution, and reducing the losses. To achieve the goal of improving the quality of food products, the use of synthetic packaging films has increased and this has led to serious ecological problems due to their non-biodegradability. Amongst other alternatives to replace the use of synthetic packaging, the application of biodegradable films and coatings has shown promising results. The aim of this article is to update the information about the effects of polysaccharide, protein and lipid-based coatings, and antimicrobial and composite coatings on meat products. In the future, this data will be helpful for the processors to select the best coating material which can enhance the quality of different fresh, processed and frozen meat, poultry and seafood.

Rivers and Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Nazrul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
World Population ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
The One ◽  
Policy Discussion

This book presents a new conceptualization of river-related policy issues, using concepts such as the Commercial and Cordon approaches to rivers and their opposite, the Ecological and Open approaches. It draws upon river-related experience from across the world to substantiate and illustrate these concepts. This new conceptualization will help to connect the river policy discussion of experts and specialists with that of river activists and the public. This shared discussion will allow better river policy formulation. The book argues for replacing the currently dominant Commercial and Cordon approaches to rivers by the Ecological and Open approaches, and it shows how such a policy change can be more conducive to achieving sustainable development. Rivers are a vital component of the ecology of the world. The earth’s hydrological cycle depends on them. As the world population grows and the demand for freshwater increases, rivers are coming under more stress. Many rivers are already exhausted before reaching the sea, and climate change further destabilizes them. River-related conflicts are spreading. The need to adopt correct river policies is more urgent than ever. Yet the current disconnection between river-related discussions by experts and specialists, on the one hand, and activists and policymakers, on the other, makes formulation of correct river policies difficult. By helping to move the river policy discussion from the confines of experts to the public arena, this book will allow formulation of more pro-people and pro-environment river policies.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
David de la Croix ◽  
Murat Iyigun
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
World Population ◽  
Demographic Dividend ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
22Nd Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The One

According to the United Nations World Population Prospects, Africa is expected to account for more than half of the population growth in the world in the next three decades. And by the turn of the 22nd century, the populations of the poorest 33 African countries will have likely tripled. These demographic developments present challenges and opportunities for sustained growth and economic development in Africa. On the one hand, for example, they make it harder for cities to grow harmoniously, and for governments to fight poverty and inequality, while expanding health and education services. On the other hand, the potential for a demographic transition opens the door to the possibility of reaping the fruits of a demographic dividend, which was so important in the take-off of Europe towards modern growth.

Ecological Transformation of Modern Cemetery Design

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 839-842
Author(s):  
Bing Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Aging Population ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Design Ideas

People increase in demand of the cemetery architecture to result in serious ecological problems, such as the land utilized greatly and environment polluted etc. because of the number of the world population has grown rapidly and an aging population with developing rapidly urbanization. The paper interprets design ideas of the cemetery architecture and all kinds of ecological transformation types at present, thereby realizing sustainable development city.

Ecumenism for the Sake of the World

Horizons ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 414-419
Author(s):  
Antje Jackelén
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Church ◽  
National Borders

“Today's challenges are no longer defined by local or national borders. They are glocal, both global and local. Borders are no longer what they used to be. That should not scare us. Because at the center of Christianity, there is a God crossing the most dramatic border of all: the one between divine and human. Transgression of borders always entails ‘Berührungsangst,’ the anxiety of touching and being touched by what is different, strange, other. As people of faith, we can live with these anxieties, remaining centered in the Gospel of the incarnated Christ and open, very much open, to the world. And so, united in prayer for God's creation and the church of Jesus Christ, we say with confidence: Veni Creator Spiritus, Come Creator Spirit.”

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

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