...12 (2004) 1037–1045 www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro On the industrial ecology potential in Asian Developing Countries Anthony S.F. Chiu a,Ã, Geng Yong b a b Graduate School of Business, De La Salle University, Tatt Avenue, Manila, Philippines Institute for Eco-planning and Development, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China Abstract This paper focuses on the current situation in the adaptation and adoption of industrial ecology in Asian Developing Countries (ADCs). The objective of this paper is to consider the possibilities to develop an eco-industrial development (EID) strategy for these developing countries. We review the regional indigenous resources of ADCs and use the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) grouping to classify the preconditions of industrial ecology in ADCs. The authors of this paper argue that unlike the usual way of applying industrial ecology as a technical tool or a practical instrument, ADCs need to adopt industrial ecology as a strategic vision and as a strategic approach to plan the economic, social and ecological development of their national economies. In this way, it can be possible for the ADCs to avoid the same problems that occurred when the developed countries experienced industrialization and rapid economic growth, and move toward more sustainable development. # 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Industrial ecology; Eco-industrial development; Eco-industrial park; Sustainable development;...
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...1. How do you describe your College of Human Ecology experience (beyond that it is a small community within the context of a larger institution) to others? Feel free to include any surprises and/or challenges. If I had to describe the College of Human Ecology to other people, I would emphasize one word: interdisciplinary. One of the most unique aspects of the College of Human Ecology is how interdisciplinary the majors are. The curriculum structures of each major is very open and flexible, which encourages the students to pursue a lot of different academic disciplines and form dynamic connections between them. For me, personally, as a premed, the College of Human Ecology is really going to prepare me for the medical field because it will teach me to look at problems from a variety of different perspectives. Today’s medical problems are so complex, and they cannot be solved from purely a “hard science” perspective anymore. The classes HumEc encourages me to take will help me look at these medical problems using knowledge of health policy, public health, psychology, and even nutrition. 2....
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...Karen J. warren in "Feminist Environmental Philosophy" states that Norwegian philpsopher Arne Naess coined the term "deep ecology" "to refer to the (deep) conceptual roots of the environmental crisis". (Naess 1973 in Warren 2015: 6) Naess contrasts deep ecology with 'shallow ecology'. Both are concerned with environmental problems as the pollution of air and water, the misuse of natural resources, and destructive human-nature relationships. But, according to Naess, "only deep ecology provides an understanding of these issues in terms of false or problematic underlying assumptions, concepts, beliefs and values of canonical philosophy". (Warren, 2015: 6) While trying to define deep ecology, Donelle Dreese quotes what Annie Booth and Harvey...
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...sTRAYER uNIVERSITY | Organization Theory Theoretical Research | Dr. Ian McDevitt- ECO 550 | | Bobby Sims | 6/22/2013 | | Introduction Organization Theories are the principles that provide foundations for businesses worldwide. These leadership theories exist to utilize and build organizational structure within the company. These theories have aided in the development of standards that leaders, followers, and managers attempt to achieve on a daily basis to exemplify the ideals of the company. After researching organization theories, I discovered that many companies display commonly used theories that fit their management model. The styles such as Classical Theory, Human Ecology, Contingency Theory, Resource Dependency, Organizational Economics, Institutional Theory, and the Network Theories. These theories have distinctly different concepts and I will explain those differences. Organization theories have provided many companies with the necessary tools to approach any situation and have a successful outcome. When organizations encounter complications, they can rest assure that there is a method that can be utilized to approach the situation positively and effectively. Leadership theories have many uses: training purposes, rational purposes, and even comforting purposes. These application of these theories are possible in any event and that is the reason why they are so useful. The first theory under discussion is the Organizational Theory. This theory characterizes...
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...continuous support they give to him. And because of that support he makes his research paper successful. And for his parents, he also wants to thank them for the patience, when the reasearcher loses hope while doing his research paper. To his class adviser Mrs. Judy A. Apan who gave him a chance to experience on how to do this kind of research paper And most of all to our God Almighty who give him enough knowledge and continuous giving him faith. Table of Contents Title Page Approval Sheet Chapter I *The Problem and its backround* Introduction Statement of the problem Score and Delimination Importance and Study Definition of terms Chapter II Review of related literature Chapter III Presentation Chapter IV Summary, Conclusion and recommendation Chapter V Bibliography Chapter I *The problem and its backround* INTRODUCTION ?It is because of those scientists? inventions.? ?Modern technology owes ecology an apology!? This is what some people say when the read the news about haze, deforestation, extinction of flora and fauna and global warming. They blame modern technology, the materials and ideas developed in the last century to assist humans in their activities, for the deterioration of...
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...Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Dr. Helene Gayle succeeded in the development of public policy to combat AIDS. Dr. Gayle employed John Gaus’ concept of administrative ecology by using several ecological factors, such as people, place, and personality, to create an environment receptive to her cause. This analysis defines John Gaus’ administrative ecology and uses Dr. Gayle’s success as an example of how the ecological factors affecting a policy can and should be used to further its development. Administrative Ecology: John Gaus defines ecology as that which, “ deals with all the interrelationships of living organisms and their environment” Based on his definition of ecology, Gaus posits that, “An ecological approach to public administration builds, then, quite literally from the ground up”, and is made up of the elements of a place, its people, and the relationships that exist between them. To Gaus, understanding a society’s ecology provides public administrators with the tools to, “better understand what they are doing and how they are doing it”. Gaus’ concept of administrative ecology describes how “public administration, its development, and its activities were influenced by its setting, or its ecology.” Ecological Factors: Within the concept of administrative ecology, Gaus identifies several ecological factors that help explain, “The ebb and flow of the functions of government”. These ecological factors are: People, Place, Physical and...
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...Ecology Background Information Ecology means the environment as it relates to living organisms. This relates with the different organisms working together in the stream with its surroundings. Ecology also means the study of interactions of organisms with their environment. It studies how environmental factors determine distribution and abundance of populations. At the creek the surrounding factors of the stream determined how many fish and water invertebrates we found in the different areas. Introduction / Purpose The section of Kickapoo Creek we were at was located off of Loxa Rd. between Mattoon and Charleston. Group C was about a fourth of a mile down the creek. It was very hot (about 84-85 degrees) with a slight breeze. The stream was wide but shallow, and felt cool in the hot air. The stream was curved shaped and had no slope to it. It had a lot of leaves, twigs, and logs in the water. There were also some tires at the bottom of the creek in different places. Shaping the creek was a cliff sort of thing and at the top of it was a bean field. To get down to the stream we had to go down this windy path near the bridge. The stream had a bunch of schools of fish and other water creatures. In the stream there were fish, clams, rocks, sand, algae, bugs, invertebrates, and grass all over. The flow of the water was kind of a run/ripple in different areas. The purpose of going to the creek was to figure out the physical and chemical characteristics of the stream, to observe organisms...
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...Research TOC BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY, “SOCIOBIOLOGY,” AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR Bobbi S. Low W hen Juliet was twelve, her father, without consulting her, betrothed her to a man more than twice her age. She, being in love with Romeo, complained. Her father’s answer was (Act III, Scene V): An you will not wed, I’ll pardon you! Graze where you will, you shall not house with me; … An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. Today, in the United States, Juliet would probably sue her father for child abuse. And she would be likely to win. What is common, approved, and thought ethical varies widely across human cultures in time and space: whether one may marry more than one person at a time; who chooses marriage partners; whether abortion and infanticide are approved or forbidden; whether one may eat all meats, some meats, or none; what kinds of killings are forbidden or encouraged. How are we to make sense of all this variety? Human behavior has traditionally been the province of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. Within each of these fields there exist diverse approaches. Recently, behavioral ecology, an evolutionary approach to why we behave as we do, has joined other fields in trying to explain some of the diversity in human behavior. With its roots in Charles Darwin’s work 1 on natural selection, it examines how environmental conditions...
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...do with the objectives of the specific study. According to Perry (2008), study of ecological unit mostly comprises of the study of sure procedures that relates the living, or biotic, constituents to the inorganic, and abiotic constituents. Energy changes and biogeosubstance transformation are the key procedures that include the area of environment conservation. Ecology normally is well-defined as the connections of creatures with one another and with the environs in which they are living. Ecology can be studied at the level of the separate organism, the inhabitants, the community, and the environment. studies of ecology at individuals are concerned generally about composition, reproduction, growth or performance, while studies of ecology at inhabitants typically emphasis on the environs and sources needs of particular classes, their collection performances, population development, and what bounds their plenty of reasons of death. Studies of communities look at how inhabitants of various species interrelate with one another, such as killers and their target, or rivals that share mutual wants or resources. In ecology environmental...
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...17, 2013 Tourism: Impacts on the Economy and Eco-System How is Caribbean tourism negative for their economy? How does tourism negatively impact ecology? Those are the questions I ask myself, is tourism tearing apart the Caribbean? In some ways there are both positive and negative impacts of tourism on the economy and ecology of the Caribbean. The reason this topic is worth being thoroughly exploring is because of all the lives it impacts on an everyday basis from work to water supply. Through researching I have found that there are a few alliances that their only purpose is to benefit and help keep the eco-system the way it is supposed to be. Now not all resorts are watched under these alliances but I am going to take a closer look at these Alliances and see exactly what they stand for and how they could make positive changes when it comes to helping save the eco-system. In the end I’m going to find statistics on what good and bad is going on, what people are doing to try to improve any of the bad and see just how much tourism affects the lives of the people and lands of the Caribbean. My plan is to look inside of it all, shift out the myths and find the truth on both the Economy and Ecology issues. The purpose of my research project is to look into the different effects tourism has on both the economy and ecology. I’m going to be digging deep into what is really happening to the oceans (Hill, 2013) these beautiful oceans that the huge chain resorts sit on. Also I...
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...example of eco centric ethics Leopold was the one who changed the thinking about the predators in his early research he was In agreement about the Pinchot idea that all natural resources are commodities and this is one of the reasons why he wrote a book called game management which had the ways of increasing our harvest by natural resources. According to him the biggest threat to higher productivity was predators and they needed to be controlled and his view all the hunter gamers and conservationist should come together and try to stop this. After years of experience Leopold understood that the conservationist approach had problems and he jotted it down to two main concerns, first it doesn’t understand the interconnectedness of nature we cannot manipulate one part of nature and the expect the other to be same. Secondly it sees earth as dead whereas ecology views everything on this earth as living. He talks about how Leopold recognized that we need to look at a broader perspective and think like a mountain so that nature can be saved. 8.2 According to Leopold’s land ethics all land should be treated ethically we as humans have some obligation to it and should be viewed as a human. He says that we should extend ethical behavior to soil birds animals and they should be given equal moral consideration. But at same time Leopold still believes that natural resources should be used as commodity and this is the reason he cannot be in the same belief with animal rights authors such...
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...Published by the Ecological Society of America Number 10, Winter 2003 Issues in Ecology Sustaining Healthy Freshwater Ecosystems Issues in Ecology Number 10 Winter 2003 Sustaining Healthy Freshwater Ecosystems SUMMARY Fresh water is vital to human life and economic well-being, and societies extract vast quantities of water from rivers, lakes, wetlands, and underground aquifers to supply the requirements of cities, farms, and industries. Our need for fresh water has long caused us to overlook equally vital benefits of water that remains in stream to sustain healthy aquatic ecosystems. There is growing recognition, however, that functionally intact and biologically complex freshwater ecosystems provide many economically valuable commodities and services to society. These services include flood control, transportation, recreation, purification of human and industrial wastes, habitat for plants and animals, and production of fish and other foods and marketable goods. Over the long term, intact ecosystems are more likely to retain the adaptive capacity to sustain production of these goods and services in the face of future environmental disruptions such as climate change. These ecosystem benefits are costly and often impossible to replace when aquatic systems are degraded. For this reason, deliberations about water allocation should always include provisions for maintaining the integrity of freshwater ecosystems. Scientific evidence indicates that aquatic ecosystems can be protected...
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...Ecologism: Core themes | Ecology | * Ecology developed as a distinct branch of biology through a growing recognition that plants and animals are sustained by self-regulating natural systems (i.e. ecosystem) composed of both living and non-living elements. All ecosystems tend towards a state of harmony or equilibrium through a system of state regulation. Biologists refer to this as homeostasis: Process where food and other resources are recycled and the population size of animals; insects and plants naturally adjust to the available food supply.Eco systems interact with other ecosystems.E.g. A lake may constitute an ecosystem, but it also needs to be fed fresh water from tributaries and receive warmth and energy from the sun. In turn, lakes provide water and food for species living along its shores. The natural world is therefore made up of a complex web of ecosystems – the largest of which is the global ecosystem: the “ecosphere” or “biosphere”.Ecologists argue that humankind currently faces the prospect of environmental disaster because of material wealth.Material wealth and consumption upsets the ‘balance of nature’ and endangered the ecosystems that make human life possible. * This is all a result of the growth in human population * The depletion of finite and irreplaceable resources such as: Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas * The eradication of tropical rain forests * The pollution of rivers, lakes and forests and air itselfEcologism presents a radically different...
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...Abstract In the original Greek “oikos” means, “house”. So ecology is “the study of the house” the place where you live, or the environment which technically includes all those factors, both nonliving and living, that affect an organism. Ecology then is the study of the interactions of organisms in their environment includes both the living (biotic) and physical (abiotic) factors of the environment. It is also the science, which formulates and test hypotheses about environment. Keywords: ecology, environment, organisms, science, interaction, affects, temperate deciduous forest Ecology is the relationship, identification and analysis of problems common to all areas. Ecology studies the relationships between organisms and their environments and its responses to environmental change (Ecology.com Aug. 2011). Ecology encompasses a wide range of considerations, such as the position of organisms in the food chain and the ability of organisms to survive and reproduce. There is a variety of environmental issues that impact ecosystems and the organisms that live within them. Biomes are large, distinctive complex of plant communities created and maintained by climate, also known as ecoregions. A study published in 1999 concluded that there are 150 different "ecoregions" in North America alone (Biologypages.com August 2011). The temperate deciduous forest biome occupies most of the eastern part of the United States, including Ohio and a small strip of southern Ontario. The temperate...
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...THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES by Tehreem Nawaz Literature review The article emphases in a wonderful form of debate, on the basic importance of a discipline “the curricular” and its prerequisite, the curricular of any discipline which should be recognized universally and must have same core topics to be studied round the world. Then Environment Studies would be called discipline. Until 1960s Environmental studies programs in various institutions at different levels had been studied with all the courses of environmental study offered by each educational institution without pre requisite requirement as free-standing programs. Latterly the environmental programs evolved in to desperate fields within forestry and natural resources, to defined environmental studies and the clear statements about its curricular content and educational objectives have remained difficult to describe. For the environmental studies a specific curricular is to be given, has more important and significant. After more than a quarter century old Environment Studies now is in a new phase of growing and expansion, the need for its distinct identity is being more felt. Because of that it is needed to set its curricular with consciences, lest environmental education should not go in some political interests. Present trend is tending to bring environmental studies into a undefined able discipline. ------------------------------------------------- Debate in this article took start from evolution of environmental...
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