BIOPOLITICS
THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT
VOLUME VI
Danube River Bonds
Edited by Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis and Jan Morovic
Bratislava, June 3-6, 1997
Published by the Biopolitics Inernational Organisation B.I.O. 1998
Contents
Bio-Philosophy
Biopolitics – the bio-environment _ building a biocentric millennium society
Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis
Openness, partnerships, ethics and learning
Jan Morovic
Evolution of a river: history and bio-aesthetics
The stream of evolution and the evolution of a river
Igor N. Malakhov
The symbolism of water: philosophical anthropology and aesthetics
Maria Golaszewska
The Danube in Slavonic history
Valery Evorovsky
Settlement evolution in the Danube basin
Alexander Reteyum
Water resources and the development of human civilisation
Zoran M. Radic
Communication: natural and cultural diversity in the Danube region
Zlatica Plasienkova
Rivers versus towns: front or back orientation?
Wojciech Kosinski
Biodiversity and quality of life: an environmental aesthetics viewpoint
Aleksandra Szewczyk
Bio-ethics
Bioethics: a case for the future of man
Jozef Glasa
The ethics of sustainability in the new Europe
Matteo Mascia
Bioethics and the environment: the Italian National Committee for Bioethics
Renzo Pegoraro
New tasks and old thinking
Wieslaw Sztumski
Biocentrism as a proposition for new thinking about the biosphere
Zdzislawa Piatek
The growing role of religion in environment
Klaudius Vicenik
Bio-Conservation
Pollution prevention technology
Reducing phosphorus in the Danube basin
Istvan Ijjas
Eutrophication in the Yugoslav part of the Danube river
Mileta Perisic
Danube water quality along the Bulgarian stretch
Cristina Mateva-Dontcheva, Nikolaj Koumdjev and Vladimir Dontchev
Eutrophication in the Cunovo reservoir
Jarmila Makovinska
Water treatment technologies – the way for protection of the Danube river
Gennady Kocherov
Science and technology: benefits and risks for the Danube river basin
Ivana Djujic and Borivoje Djujic
Free radicals in biology and the environment
Alexander Tkac
Coastal pollution and groundwater quality in the Yugoslav part of the Danube
Snezana Komatina
Quality of surface waters. Stability in meadow ecosystems
Eduard Bublinec and Margita Dubova
Biodiversity and resource conservation
Saving the biological resources of the Danube
Victor D. Romanenko
Biodiversity in the Yugoslav sector of the Danube
Ivica Radovic and Vladimir Stevanovic
Biodiversity in the Bulgarian sector of the Danube
Svetoslav Gerasimov and Ivan Yanchev
The “Upper Danube” nature park
Henry Dosedla
Fish biodiversity of the Gabcikovo waterworks
Anton Kirka
Forest ecosystems, agriculture and soil preservation
Danube forest ecosystems: biodiversity changes in the 20th century
Július Oszlányi
Danube floodplain forests
Ferdinand Kubicek
Restitution of floodplain forests. Synecological specificities
Ladislav Somsak
Functional assessment of forests as recreational resources
Edvardas Riepshas
The Soil Protection Working Group of the Danube countries
Michal Dzatko
Rendering the Danube basin agricultural region more environmentally friendly
Terezia Davidova
Bio-agriculture and nature conservation in Hungary
Karoly Szoke and Istvan Major
Organic farming in the Baltic countries: social aspects of development
Aija Zobena
Agro-environmental policy in Germany
Peter Weingarten
Bio-Policy
Waterways and waterworks: international co-operation and conflict resolution
Hydropolitics and conflict resolution
Masahiro Murakami
The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydropower system and the Slovak Government
Dominik Kocinger
The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam: social, political and cultural conflicts
Miklos Sukosd
Environmental management of transboundary freshwater bodies
Juha I. Uitto
Conflicts in water management
Vladimir Holcik
Philosophy of river problems: local to regional _ static to mobile
Libor Jansky
Bio-diplomacy: new profiles in leadership and democracy
Water conflicts and bio-diplomacy
Kai Falkman
ASEAN bio-diplomacy: a river in Southeast Asia
Irawan Abidin
European integration perspectives for the Balkan countries
Panayotis Vlassopoulos
Co-operation for the expansion of the European Union
George Zavvos
Current concepts in water management
The Danube Environmental Programme
Teun Botterweg and Jozef Turcan
Implementing the Danube Environmental Programme in the Slovak Republic
Ivan Zavadsky and Milan Matuska
Regional co-operation in the Danube river basin
Pavel Petroviè
Safety monitoring in Gabcikovo
Jan Hummel
Biopolitics problems of large-scale hydraulic engineering construction
Victor D. Romanenko
Yangtze Three Gorges Dam. The modern Great Wall of China
Constantine Yapijakis
Environmentally-sound hydroelectric power plants
Tibor Harosi
Integrated ecosystems: a recent strategy for water management
Pavel Puncochar
Bio-policy in Moldova
Vitalie Gulca
Danube river bonds _ past, present, future
M. Ruzovic
Autonomous environmental policy for the Carpathian basin: a theoretical approach
Gyula Bora
Water resources model: environmental management and future biopolitics
Alexander Shishkin
Bio-economics
Commerce and biopolitics
John Tzen
Bio-business for the sake of prosperity: co-operation along the Danube
Stanislav Sokolenko
Systems analysis of bio-economy: entropy and negentropy in biopolitics
Laszlo Kapolyi
Bio-education
Bio-education and environmental literacy
Roumenka Chapkanova
Bio-education on the way to new thinking
Olga Musikhina and Anatoliy Shishatskiy
Interdisciplinary bio-education as a complex science in the next millennium
Alexander Lutsko
“Bring life back to the rivers” – prevention, education and international co-operation
George J. Kollmann
Bio-education is the key to survival
Gordana Brun
Beyond the concept of sustainable development
The common heritage of mankind and the new concepts of responsibility
Rusen Keles
Quality of life: environmental and conservative interpretations
Konrad Waloszczyk
Humankind in nature and the limits of sustainable development
Sanjin Dragojevic
Biopolitics versus sustainable development
Christos Efthymiopoulos
Strengthening the life supporting system of our planet and the role of the B.I.O.
Mihaly Simai
The limits of sustainable development
Juraj Hrasko
Resolutions and Recommendations
Appendix
B.I.O. Goals and Objectives
B.I.O. Chronicle
Progress of B.I.O.
Who’s Who in B.I.O.
B.I.O. Publications
BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT VOLUME VI
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