6. Revisiting the Metaphor of Human Health for Assessing Ecological Systems and Its Application to Ecological Economics

2015 ◽  
pp. 190-207
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Ecological Economics ◽  
Ecological Systems

Light at Night: A New Kind of Environment Pollution

2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 636-640
Author(s):  
Liang Tang
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Light Pollution ◽  
Environment Pollution ◽  
Light At Night ◽  
Energy Consumptions ◽  
Negative Impacts

Light pollution is increasing recognized as having adverse effects on human and environment. This paper analyzes the sources and causes of the formation of light pollution, and explores the negative impacts of light pollution on ecological systems, human health and energy consumptions. At last, we propose some suggestions for the prevention of light pollution.

scholarly journals Florida Solid and Hazardous Waste Regulation Handbook: Ocean Dumping Act (ODA)

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Olexa ◽  
Aaron Leviten ◽  
Kelly Samek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cooperative Extension Service ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Ocean Dumping

The Ocean Dumping Act regulates: the dumping of materials into the United States territorial ocean waters and the transportation of materials for the purpose of dumping.  The purpose of the statute is to strictly limit ocean disposal of any material that would negatively affect: human health, the marine environment, ecological systems, and potential economic endeavors. This is EDIS document FE451, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, UF/IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published December 2003. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe451

scholarly journals Toxicity and Biodegradability of Solvents: A Comparative Analysis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asghar Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
Ionic Liquids ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Transport Properties ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Aquatic Toxicity ◽  
Fate And Transport ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Solvent Selection ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Industrial Solvents

Solvents are widely-used in all aspects of chemical sciences. One of the disadvantages of conventional solvents is attributed to the adverse impacts they pose on human health and ecological systems. Emerging class of solvents such as ionic liquids have been proposed to alleviate this problem. In this study, aquatic toxicity and biodegradability of two common industrial solvents are compared to those of two ionic liquids. Results from this study highlight the importance of solvent selection considering the information on the toxicity, biodegradability and fate and transport properties of selected solvents altogether.

scholarly journals Giant Viruses—Big Surprises

Viruses ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Brandes ◽  
Michal Linial
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Giant Virus ◽  
Genomic Sequences ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Ecological View ◽  
Giant Viruses ◽  
Dna Maintenance ◽  
Virus Strains

Viruses are the most prevalent infectious agents, populating almost every ecosystem on earth. Most viruses carry only a handful of genes supporting their replication and the production of capsids. It came as a great surprise in 2003 when the first giant virus was discovered and found to have a >1 Mbp genome encoding almost a thousand proteins. Following this first discovery, dozens of giant virus strains across several viral families have been reported. Here, we provide an updated quantitative and qualitative view on giant viruses and elaborate on their shared and variable features. We review the complexity of giant viral proteomes, which include functions traditionally associated only with cellular organisms. These unprecedented functions include components of the translation machinery, DNA maintenance, and metabolic enzymes. We discuss the possible underlying evolutionary processes and mechanisms that might have shaped the diversity of giant viruses and their genomes, highlighting their remarkable capacity to hijack genes and genomic sequences from their hosts and environments. This leads us to examine prominent theories regarding the origin of giant viruses. Finally, we present the emerging ecological view of giant viruses, found across widespread habitats and ecological systems, with respect to the environment and human health.

scholarly journals Giant Viruses – Big Surprises

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Brandes ◽  
Michal Linial
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Giant Virus ◽  
Genomic Sequences ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Ecological View ◽  
Giant Viruses ◽  
Dna Maintenance ◽  
Virus Strains

Viruses are the most prevalent infectious agents, populating almost every ecosystem on earth. Most viruses carry only a handful of genes supporting their replication and the production of capsids. It came as a great surprise in 2003 when the first giant virus was discovered and found to have a >1Mbp genome encoding almost a thousand proteins. Following this first discovery, dozens of giant virus strains across several viral families have been reported. Here, we provide an updated quantitative and qualitative view on giant viruses and elaborate on their shared and variable features. We review the complexity of giant virus proteomes, which include functions traditionally associated only with cellular organisms. These unprecedented functions include components of the translation machinery, DNA maintenance, and metabolic enzymes. We discuss the possible underlying evolutionary processes and mechanisms that might have shaped the diversity of giant viruses and their genomes, highlighting their remarkable capacity to hijack genes and genomic sequences from their hosts and environments. This leads us to examine prominent theories regarding the origin of giant viruses. Finally, we present the emerging ecological view of giant viruses, found across widespread habitats and ecological systems, with respect to the environment and human health.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Ecosystem Services and the Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-390
Author(s):  
Justine Bell-James ◽  
Catherine E Lovelock ◽  
Anya Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Ecological Economics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Ecosystem Services Value ◽  
Ecological Complexity

The importance of natural ecosystems to people and their societies has been articulated by scientists since the early 1960s. From this emerged the concept of ecosystem services in the 1970s and 1980s that began to categorize ecosystem services, value and monetarize them, against a backdrop of growing global degradation of natural ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services has given rise to new inter-disciplinary fields (e.g. ecological economics, bioeconomics, and environmental management), which seek to provide knowledge on how the well-being of humans, which is dependent on ecosystem services from nature, can be maintained. The term has also helped connect ecological complexity and dynamics to human needs and wants, as ecosystem services fundamentally underpin human health, wellbeing and prosperity

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