BIOPOLITICS
THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT
BIO-CULTURE IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
VOLUME V
International Sakharov Festival
Edited by Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
International Sakharov Festival
Athens, July 28-31, 1994
BIOPOLITICS INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION B.I.O. 1996
Table of Contents
His All Holiness the Ecumenical
Patriarch, Mr. Vartholomeos
Carolos Papoulias
Foreign Affairs Minister, Greece
Address Delivered by Ambassador George Georgiou
George Papandreou
Minister of National Education, Greece
Valery Nikolayenko
Ambassador of the Russian Federation
Professor Jiro Kondo
Director General, Reassert Institute of Innovative
Technology for the Earth, Japan
Elisabeth A. Papazoi
Deputy Minister of Physical Planning,
Environment and Public Works, Greece
Professor Pavel J. Sarkisov
Rector, Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology, Russia
Professor Leonid Goldin
GOSCO Cultural Organisation, Russia
Bios Theory
Biopolitics – The Bio-Environment Bio-Culture in the Next Millennium
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
Bio-Diplomacy
The Presence and Essence of Bio-Diplomacy
Kai Falkman
Biopolitics as a Tool for Sustainable Solidarity
Rusen Keles
Bio-Diplomacy as a Dimension of Bio-Culture
Panayotis Economou
Revival of the European Soul: Post-Socialist Europeans – Neglected but not Negligible
Jiri Marvan
The European Parliament Sakharov Prize
George E. Saridakis
New Pathways for International Co-operation
Ahmed Nabil El Salawy
International Environmental Co-operation: Retrospect and Prospect
Ayse Gulgun Tuna
Bio-Legislation
International and European Union Action Against Climate Change
George Strongylis
Proposals for Environmental Preservation
Yuri A. Korolev
Bio-Legislation as a Solution to Environmental Problems in South America
L.E. Ruelas Lierena
Diplomacy and International Law in the Service of Biopolitics
Juraj Cuth
Human Rights and the Environment: a Common Future
Panayotis Karafotias
Bio-Economics
How to Compete in the 21st Century? The Importance of an Ethical and Environmental Corporate Commitment
Gunter Pauli
Building a Sustainable Future
Nicholas Ashford
How to Escape from the Cycle of Environmental Degradation
Assimakis Fotilas
Systems Analysis of Bio-Economy: Entropy and Negentropy in Biopolitics
Lászlo Kapolyi
The Bio-Environment as a Managerial Challenge
Peter Kalantzis
Environmental Leadership: a New Business and Marketing Era
Panayotis Vongas
Exploring Links Between Business and the Environment
Julia Panourgia-Clones
The Role of Economics in the Process of Sustainable Development
Gyula Bora
Technological Progress and the Future of Bios
Nikos Katsaros
Resource Conservation and Utilisation – A Magnificent Opportunity
J. Patrick Nicholson
Bio-Policy
From Zero Defect, through Zero Inventory, to Zero Emissions
Gunter Pauli
Biopolitics: a New Approach to the Politics of Sustainable Development
A. Henry Karunaratne
Global Environmental Change: a Vision for a Better World
Hunay Evliya
The Environment and National Minorities
Reguina A. Yavchunovskaya
Bio-Architecture as a Policy for Urban Planning
Ali Ozbilen
Bio-Policy: Itinerary for Future Social Developments
Natalia Grigorieva
Bio-Policy: a Quantitative Analysis of the Bio-Environment
Ivana S. Djujic
The Second Industrial Revolution: a Summary
Eero Paloheimo
Forestry: Reconciling Poverty and Equity Concerns
Kamla Chowdhry
Regional Policy
Co-operation for Survival
Faysal Tageldim Abushama
The Environmental Situation in Central and Eastern Europe: the Czechoslovak Example
Jaroslav Stoklasa
Human Values, Modern Technology and Bio-Environmental Preservation
S. Budhisantoso
Environmental Protection and Scientific Research in Romania
Mariana Constantinescu
A Developing Region’s Investment in Natural Capital
M. Dino Fortes
Biopolitics Goals: Lithuania’s Obligations
Leonidas Kairiukstis
New Approaches to Environmental Management in Northwest Russia
Alexander I. Shishkin
The Environmental Situation in Cambodia: Policy and Instructions
Ung Phyrun
Water Management
Marine Biology, Pollution and the Protection of Nature
Wilfried Gunkel
The Conservation of Wetlands
Meral Kence
Reservoir Development and Exploitation for a Normal Trophic State
Emil Rus
Do We Need Protected Areas in the Baltic?
Anna Szaniawska and K.E. Skora
Equilibria in Aquatic Environments
Gabriella Ivancea
Enclosed Coastal Seas – A Case Study: the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Baruch Kimor
The Baltic Sea as a Great Potential Area for Biopolitics
Eugeniusz Andrulewicz
Bio-Education
Shaping the Future: Education for a Global Responsibility
Paulo C. Moura
Bio-Education for All: Achieving Environmentally Literate Global Citizens
Liduvina R. Senora
How to Improve Bio-Education
Leszek Kuznicki
Biocentric Education and Development
Kumaran Fernando
The Bio-Environment in Primary Education
Georges Martin
Problems of Biopolitics in Teaching Chemical Technology
Pavel Sarkisov and Michael Manakov
Humanitarian Education in Russian Technical Universities
Lidia Masalkowa
Bio-Education and its Contribution to Bio-Culture in the Next Millennium
Inna Parkhomenko
Democratisation and Bio-Education: Action for a Better Quality of Life
Jan W. Dobrowolski
Educational Challenges in the Post Chernobyl Years
Alexander M. Lutsko
Bio-Education: an Avenue Toward Sustainable Development in the Third Millennium
Sergey A. Ushakov
Bio-Environmental Education: The Lithuanian Experience
Vitalij Denisov and Sergej Olenin
Biopolitics and the Problems of Professional Education in Russia
Natalia Kuznetsova
Bio-Education: the Realisation of Biocentric Values
Nadezhda Shulenina
Biopolitics and Creative Thinking: the Search for Alternatives
Edna Aphek
Distance Learning for the Environment
Jan Morovic
Bio-Educational Reforms in Academic Curricula
Albert Th. Ten Houten
An Environmental Approach to the Educational Process
Gordana Brun
Raising Environmental Awareness through Education
Jan Cerovsky
Literature and the Arts in the Biopolitics Curriculum
Richard Witt
Bio-Energy
Bio-Energy Perspectives versus Bio-Environmental Concerns
Basil C. Papadias
Bios and the Physics of Light
Andrei Rubin
Global Balances
Vlassios Sotiropoulos
Biotechnology and Agriculture
Biotechnology and Agriculture
Frederic A. Lints
A Biotechnology Strategy for African Food and Agriculture
Ali Haribou
Ecology and Agriculture
Thomas Alifakiotis
Decreasing Industrial Pollution and Improving Agriculture in Israel
J. Stefan Rokem
Bio-Health
Russia and Siberia: Health Problems in Environmentally Damaged Territories
Sergei I. Kolesnikov
Bio-Environment and Research on Health
Gustav V.R. Born
Environmental Co-operation and Children’s Health
Sirje Loot
Biometeorology and Quality of Life
Doina Popescu
The Rhythm of Bios
Hossein S. Mehraban
An Extravagant Promise for the Future: Clean Air Over Central and Eastern Europe
George J. Kollmann
New Technology and the Professional Healthy Man
Yuri I. Voronkov
Bio-Environmental Quality, Health and Peace
Lev Fishelson
Bio-Ethics
Defining Bio-Ethics
Yaman Ors
A Bio-Ethical Assessment of Biotechnology
Christos Yapijakis
Bio-Philosophy – Bio-Culture
Buddhism and Environmental Activism
Kamla Chowdhry
Faith and Bios
Norman Solomon
Love Versus Greed: a Key to the Prolongation of Life
Gloria Castro-Gatchalian
Aristotle and the Bio-Environment
Efstathia Valiantza
Inspiration From Nature and Culture for a Joint Attitude Towards the 21st Century
Nur Sozen
Protecting Bios in the Next Millennium: What Does it Mean?
M. Lapka and V. Mejstrik
Biopolitics as a Renewed Expression of Classical Humanism
Mario Calderon Rivera
A Flight of Fancy: Music in the Next Millennium
John Papaioannou
Bio-Activism: Toward a Culture of Peace
Terence M. Duffy
Rationality and Cultural Capital in Improving International Understanding
Sanjin Dragojevic
Appendix
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