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
Edited by Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
Published by the BIOPOLITICS INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION
B.I.O. 1988
Table of Contents
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
Appendix
Brief background of B.I.O.
Who’s Who in B.I.O.
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