BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME I

BIOPOLITICS

THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT

BIOS IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM

Volume I

Proceedings from the First BIO International Conference
Held in Athens, Greece, May 6-10, 1987


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Edited by Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis

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Published by the BIOPOLITICS INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION
B.I.O. 1988

Table of Contents

Preface-Sponsors

Contributors

Philosophical Dimensions

Dimensions of Biopolitics
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis

Biology and Morality
Rom Harre

Philosophical Aspects of the Bio-Environment
Andreja Miletic

Ways of Thinking about the Bio-Environment
Andrew A. Brennan

Biopolitics and the Philosophy of Evolution
Thomas S. Kemp

Man as an Evolutionary Phenomenon
Henry D.A.H.P. Karunaratne

Management Models

Explorers of Transition – Organisations
Dolores Schell

Public Policy Engineering – Operations Research in Decision Making
Achilles C. Kanellopoulos

Social Implications

The Tragedy of the Commons
Michael Dearing

The Creative Impact of Feminism on Biopolitics
Hilkka Pietila

Biopolitics and Youth
James Muldoon, Jr.

International Cooperation

The Bio-Environment – Policy Recommendations
Lord David Ennals

Strategies for the Protection, Maintenance and Enhancement of ‘Bios’
Tham Seong Chee

The Bio-Environment – An Issue for Development and Foreign Policy
Androulla Vassiliou

The Role of the United Nations in Preserving the Bio-Environment
Peter H. Feeg

Preservation of the Bio-Environment
Kumaran Fernando

The Bio-Environment: Protection and Improvement of Life
Liduvina R. Senora

The Bio-Environment – African Dimensions
Tina Uwechue

Politics, Education and Economics

Biopolitics – Regional and Interregional Perspectives
Antonio Manuel de Sousa Otto

Biopolitical Science
Emmanuel E. Marcoglou

The Bio-Environment and Education
Erich Taubert

The Bio-Environment – Economic Dimensions
Gyula Bora

Ecology and Economic Policy
Udo E. Simonis

Legal Implications

Preservation and International Law
Juraj Cuth

Urban Planning and Bio-Environmental Policy
Rusen Keles

Biopolitics – Legal Dimensions
Haim Klugman

International Environmental Problems and the Role of Legislators
Udo E. Simonis

Technological Dimensions Scientific Knowledge and Environmental Policy

Pollution

Global Warming and Sea Level Rise
Giulio Pontecorvo

Lake Restoration in Berlin
Gunther Klein

Transfer Factors of Heavy Metals in Aquatic Organisms of Different Trophic Levels
Vassiliki Kalfakakou, Konstantina Akrida-Demertzi

Bio-Environmental Protection, Materials Recoveryd Cost Saving: The Case of Flotation
Andreas I. Zouboulis and Francis A. Batzias

Chemical and Engineering Aspects of Phosphate Elimination
Andreas Grohmann

Health

Bio-Engineering – Medical Dimensions
George M. Maniatis

Long-Term Air Pollution Effects and Health
Horst Malberg

Influences of Air Pollution and Weather on Croup Syndrome and Obstructive Respiratory Tract Diseases of Children in Berlin (West)
Ulrich Fegeler

Nutrition – Single Cell Protein Twenty Years Later
Cleanthis J. Israelidis

New Perspectives

Biotechnology, Man and the Bio-Environment
Guy Sergheraert

Comments on Biotechnology
Constantinos Sekeris

Telecommunications Science and Its Relation to Bios
Peter Stavroulakis

Biotechnology and the Environment
Michael Scoullos

Biotechnology and Fisheries Oceanography
Phillip Lobel

Technology and Change in the Bio-Environment: Some Contributions to Process Theory
David Watts

Resolutions

Biographies

Appendix

Brief background of B.I.O.
Who’s Who in B.I.O.


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