[PDF] Environmental Biodynamics eBook

Author : Manish Arora
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 019758294X

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Environmental Biodynamics offers a daring new inquiry into our environment and its impact on human health by redefining how we conceptualize interactions between complex systems.

Author : Manish Arora
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0197582966

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Is there a central scientific theory governing how human physiology interacts with the environment? Our environment exerts a profound effect on our health and well-being. Yet, the rules guiding such interaction between individual human physiology and the environment remain elusive. While various disciplines have emerged studying components and base interactions of each system, no method has successfully predicted the dynamic behavior between these complex systems in real time. Environmental Biodynamics offers a daring new inquiry into our environment and its impact on human health. Moving beyond a reductionist view of human physiology and the environment, this volume proposes a fundamental shift in environmental health science from quantifying structural relationships, such as static measures of environmental factors or momentary health indicators, to studying functional interdependencies in time. Across six chapters, the authors weave together the latest research from biology, environmental science, theoretical physics, mathematics, and philosophy to explore their Biodynamic Interface Theory, which states that complex systems connect primarily through a dynamic, operationally independent interface that regulates the bidirectional interactions between systems over time. Later chapters compare the proposed theory against current practice and provide suggestions for further methods of data collection and computational analysis. Supported by vivid full-color diagrams and a wealth of original data, Environmental Biodynamics is an accessible theoretical guide to this promising new field of environmental health

Author : Jens Köhrsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1000805387

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This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups. Different faith traditions have developed "green" theologies, launched environmental protection projects and issued public statements on climate change. Against this background, academic scholarship has raised optimistic claims about the strong potentials of religions to address environmental challenges. Taking a critical stance with regard to these claims, the chapters in this volume show that religious environmentalism is an embattled terrain. Tensions are an inherent part of religious environmentalism. These do not necessarily manifest themselves in open clashes between different parties but in different actions, views, theologies, ambivalences, misunderstandings, and sometimes mistrust. Keeping below the surface, these tensions can create effective barriers for religious environmentalism. The chapters examine how tensions are manifested and dealt with through a range of empirical case studies in various world regions. Covering different religious and spiritual traditions, they reflect on intradenominational, interdenominational, interreligious, and religious-societal tensions. Thereby, this volume sheds new light on the problems that religions face when they seek to take an active role in today’s societal challenges. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Britt Karlsson
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biodynamic agriculture
ISBN : 9781782501138

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An award-winning and invaluable introduction to sustainable winemaking for all wine growers.

Author : Vladimir G. Ivancevic
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9812703160

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This comprehensive volume is a graduate-level text in human biodynamics, written in the unified categorical language of modern differential geometry and topology. Combining mathematics, physics and robotics with human physiology, this is the first book that describes all levels of human biodynamics, from musculo-skeletal mechanics to the higher brain functions. The book develops and uses a variety of research methods, ranging from chaos theory and Haken's synergetics, through quantum mechanics, to nonlinear control and artificial intelligence, to provide the means to understand, predict and control the behavior of human-like systems in their full neuro-musculo-skeletal complexity. The applications of this unique scientific methodology range from prediction of human neuro-musculo-skeletal injuries to brain-like control of humanoid robots.

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2004-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0880109890

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And if she stayed still Without making a sound She could see gnomes Helping plants through the ground. This radiant picture book was written for Julianna Margulies--the film actor and former star of the hit television series "ER"--when she was six years old. Her father, Paul Margulies, captures the pure openness of a child's imagination. These reflections on what a small girl sees around her remind us all, young and old, that life's riches can come to us through our loving attention to the simple and "ordinary." The vibrant images by Famke Zonneveld (the illustrator of Living Alphabet) bring this book to life. (Ages 4 - 7 years)

Author : Willy Schilthuis
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Organic farming
ISBN :

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A concise, illustrated introduction to the internationally recognized approach to agriculture in which the farmer or gardener works with the spiritual dimensions of the earth and its environment, enabling the life processes and ecological interconnections of plants and animals to function ar their best. Willy Schilthuis was president of the Dutch Biodynamic Association for twenty-five years. She has written several books on biodynamics.