The
sustainability concept opens a new field of scientific,
aesthetic, cultural and ethical studies: the
link, the linked and the linking.
It imposes limits on development, those required by
the link's continuation, but it opens new trajectories
where the creation of the link explores and communicates
a share of feeling: the positive imaginary and the
breath of life that arise through conscience and the
implementation.
This fosters re-evaluation of the dominant idea of
task specialization and expert monopoly, the compartmentalization
of knowledge and the prevalence of vertical organizational,
methodological individualism, cultural imperialisms
and economic insularisms.
It invites to rebuild 'trans-disciplinarily' the concept
of development to connect ethics, politics, culture,
aesthetics and science while escaping a system whose
productivist logic and "ethnocide " trajectory
would otherwise remain unchanged. Industrial ecology
and solidary economy are then necessary to consider
this renewal.
Léo Dayan
YELLOWSTONE,
USA
POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE VOLCANIC SITUATION
?
One
potentially combination of
nature, culture-made change, ground water use way,
climate change and man-made eruption
Yellowstone National Park
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming - USA
On
March 10, 2004, Yellowstone Park biologists discovered
5 dead bison along the Gibbon River near Norris
geyser basin. Norris is the hottest and most seismically
active geyser basin in Yellowstone.The bison appear
to have died because inhalation of gases, CO2 and
H2S due to a rare combination of unspecified events.
Without transparency through official information,
part of America's Yellowstone National Park has
been closed to visitors nearly half of the basin's
trails from July 23 to October 10, 2003, due to
excess ground temperatures, the deformation of the
land and increased thermal activity in the park.
In a few days in July, acidic ground water dissolved
parts of the unpaved trails in the Norris Geyser
Basin, and the ground temperature of the trails
shot up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit from the usual
maximum of 80.
Yellowstone was designated as a national park in
1872 because of its unique and fascinating geology.
It contains, across 2.2 million acres, the world's
largest set of thermal features : fumaroles and
mudpots and geysers that are heated by a "hotspot"
of magma under the park's surface
Yellowstone's volcanism is only the most recent
in a 17 million-year history of volcanic activity
that has occurred progressively from southwestern
Idaho to Yellowstone National Park. At least six
other large volcanic centers along this path generated
caldera-forming eruptions; the calderas are no longer
visible because they are buried beneath younger
basaltic lava flows and sediments that blanket the
Snake River Plain.
That
hotspot also constitutes the base of one of the
world's largest volcanoes, though it's largely invisible
and hasn't erupted for 70,000 years. Three times
in the past 2.1 million years, the park has blown
its top, covering much of the country in deep layers
of volcanic ash and wreaking havoc with global weather
systems. The last big eruption was 640,000 years
ago, and there have been 30 smaller ones since then.
The most recent was 70,000 years ago. Volcanologists
have been tracking the movement of magma under the
park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone
the ground has risen over seventy centimetres, almost
two and a half feet, since 1923, indicating a massive
swelling underneath the park.
The measurement of the Yellowstone eruption impact
could be terrifying to comprehend. The analysis
of the active factors can be so alarming because
insufficient studies and absence of transparency.
We have little understanding of the impact of farming
systems on catchment management, water quality and
wetland ecosystems, the cultural representations
of ecosystems activities filling, creating or occulting
the lacks.
North American Indians have a long history of association
with and use of geothermal phenomena, going back
at least 10,000 years. Many of these hot springs,
geysers, and fumaroles were sacred places for these
Native Americans, who had a special respect and
understanding of the natural environment.
That is this conscience of the Indians which launches
alarm on the recent phenomena observed in Yellowstone
....
An eruption? a risk of devastation? Then it would
be, in this case, the result of a combination of
natural and human factors
... WATER
IS STRUCTURE ... AGRIBUSINESS PUNCHES HUGE
Social
Entrepreneurship & Economic Efficiency.Second European
Conference on Social Economy in the Central and
Eastern Europe : October
28 -29h, 2004 Krakow Poland.
Technology
and Sustainable Development in Europe today
Travaux de l'Université Européenne
2003
Chalons-en-Champagne
july 2003. ENSAM
Université de Technologie de Troyes, Conférence
des Directeurs des Ecoles et Formations d'Ingénieurs,Ville
de Chalons, Ville de Troyes, Région Champagne-Ardennes,
APREIS
Members
of Scientific Organisation Commitee Anne Sophie Genin, Léo Dayan
, Yvonne Pourrat
Enlargement
will bring huge benefits in political terms - promoting
peace, stability and democracy across a wider geographical
area, expanding the EU's ideals of freedom, tolerance,
plurality and diversity. And, of course, the importance
of enlargement should not be underestimated in social,
environmental and economic terms.
ARTICLE
I-3 : Les objectifs de l'Union
1.
L'Union a pour but de promouvoir la paix, ses valeurs
et le bien-être de ses peuples. 2.
L'Union offre à ses citoyens un espace de liberté,
de sécurité et de justice sans frontières
intérieures, et un marché intérieur
où la concurrence est libre et non faussée.
3. L'Union oeuvre pour le développement
durable de l'Europe fondé sur une croissance
économique équilibrée et sur
la stabilité des prix, une économie
sociale de marché hautement compétitive,
qui tend au plein emploi et au progrès social,
et un niveau élevé de protection et
d'amélioration de la qualité de l'environnement.
Elle promeut le progrès scientifique et technique.
Elle combat l'exclusion sociale et les discriminations,
et promeut la justice et la protection sociales, l'égalité
entre les femmes et les hommes, la solidarité
entre les générations et la protection
des droits de l’enfant.
Elle promeut la cohésion économique,
sociale et territoriale, et la solidarité entre
les États membres.
Elle respecte la richesse de sa diversité culturelle
et linguistique, et veille à la sauvegarde
et au développement du patrimoine culturel
européen. 4.
Dans ses relations avec le reste du monde, l'Union
affirme et promeut ses valeurs et ses intérêts.
Elle contribue à la paix, à la sécurité,
au développement durable de la planète,
à la solidarité et au respect mutuel
entre les peuples, au commerce libre et équitable,
à l'élimination de la pauvreté
et à la protection des droits de l'homme, en
particulier ceux de l’enfant, ainsi qu'au strict
respect et au développement du droit international,
notamment au respect des principes de la charte des
Nations unies.
Researches
- Studies - Works
Researches - Studies
Modeling,
qualitative contents of labor and local employment
markets for sustainable development. Seven case
studies, under the scientific direction of Léo
Dayan Nov. 2003 (Works
for Ministry for Ecology and sustainable development)
and for Ministry for Employment)
The Sustainability
of Imaginary