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This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation of the concept of transformation literacy it enhances the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, change agents and institutional actors to steward transformations effectively across institutions, societal sectors and nations.Humanity is at crossroads. Resource depletion and exponential emissions that not only cause climate change, but endanger the health of people and planet, call for a decisive turnaround of human civilization. A new and transformative paradigm is emerging that advocates for regenerative civilizations, in which a narrative of systemic health as much as individual and collective vitality guide the interaction of socio-economic-ecological systems. Truly transformative change must go far beyond technical solutions,and instead envision what can be termed ¿a new operating system¿ that helps humankind to live well within the planetary boundaries and partner with life¿s evolutionary processes. This requires transformations at three different levels:· Mindsets that reconnect with a worldview in which human agency acknowledges its co-evolutionary pathways with each other and the Earth.· Political, social and economic systems that are regenerative and foster the care-taking for Earth life support systems.· Competencies to design and implement effective large-scale transformative change processes at multiple levels with multiple stakeholders.This book provides key ingredients for enhancing transformation literacy from various perspectives around the globe. It connects the emerging practice of stewarding transformative change across business, government institutions and civil societyactors with the most promising scientific models and concepts that underpin human action to shape the future collectively in accordance with planetary needs.

The unique biological capacities of humankind enabled the emergence of organized societies and sophisticated and globalized cultures. The progressive and universal recognition of science and technology as bulwarks of our species' survival, longevity, and quality of life made individual and organizational behaviors the main drivers of current (and future) human and planetary health standards. Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts, integrates two different but intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior sciences, identifying and systematizing current knowledge about human behaviors and habits, and addressing the challenge of environmental sustainability. The book takes the reader through a conceptual framework for environmental health behavior (EHB) as an emerging field of public and environmental health, positioning behavior change as the main challenge for the success of promoting sustainable human and planetary health. Its reading promotes insight into the environmental impacts of human demands and behavior, and, vice-versa, about the impacts of the environment on human behavior change. Moreover, different evidence-based strategies to promote EHB change are identified as practical tools for stakeholders involved in the challenge of promoting intergenerational well-being in balanced and sustainable human-produced and natural systems.

This book adopts a human ecology approach to present an overview of the biological responses to social, political, economic, cultural and environmental changes that affected human populations in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, since the Classic Maya Period. Human bodies express social relations, and we can read these relations by analyzing biological tissues or systems, and by measuring certain phenotypical traits at the population level. Departing from this theoretical premise, the contributors to this volume analyze the interactions between ecosystems, sociocultural systems and human biology in a specific geographic region to show how changes in sociocultural and natural environment affect the health of a population over time.  This edited volume brings together contributions from a range of different scientific disciplines - such as biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, human biology, nutrition, epidemiology, ecotoxicology, political economy, sociology and ecology - that analyze the interactions between culture, environment and health in different domains of human life, such as:The political ecology of food, nutrition and healthImpacts of social and economic changes in children's diet and women's fertilityBiological consequences of social vulnerability in urban areasImpacts of toxic contamination of natural resources on human healthEcological and sociocultural determinants of infectious diseasesCulture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula - A Human Ecology Perspective will be of interest to researchers from the social, health and life sciences dedicated to the study of the interactions between natural environments, human biology, health and social issues, especially in fields such as biological and sociocultural anthropology, health promotion and environmental health. It will also be a useful tool to health professionals and public agents responsible for designing and applying public health policies in contexts of social vulnerability.  

Environmental pollution as a consequence of diverse human activities has become a global concern. Urbanization, mining, industrial revolution, burning of fossil fuels/firewood and poor agricultural practices, in addition to improper dumping of waste products, are largely responsible for the undesirable change in the environment composition. Environmental pollution is mainly classified as air pollution, water pollution, land pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, light pollution, and plastic pollution. Nowadays, it has been realized that with the increasing environmental pollution, impurities may accumulate in plants, which are required for basic human uses such as for food, clothing, medicine, and so on. Environmental pollution has tremendous impacts on phenological events, structural patterns, physiological phenomena, biochemical status, and the cellular and molecular features of plants. Exposure to environmental pollution induces acute or chronic injury depending on the pollutant concentration, exposure duration, season and plant species. Moreover, the global rise of greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and ozone in the atmosphere is among the major threats to the biodiversity. They have also shown visible impacts on life cycles and distribution of various plant species. Anthropogenic activities, including the fossil-fuel combustion in particular, are responsible for steady increases in the atmospheric greenhouse gases concentrations. This phenomenon accelerates the global heating. Studies have suggested that the changes in carbon dioxide concentrations, rainfall and temperature have greatly influenced the plant physiological and metabolic activities including the formation of biologically active ingredients. Taken together, plants interact with pollutants, and cause adverse ecological and economic outcomes. Therefore, plant response to pollutants requires more investigation in terms of damage detection, adaptation, tolerance, and the physiological and molecular responses. The complex interplay among other emerging pollutants, namely, radioisotopes, cell-phone radiation, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, heavy metals etc. and their impact on plant adaptation strategies, and possibility to recover, mitigation, phytoremediation, etc., also needs to be explored. Further, it is necessary to elucidate better the process of the pollutant's uptake by plant and accumulation in the food chain, and the plant resistance capability against the various kinds of environmental pollutants. In this context, the identification of tolerance mechanisms in plants against pollutants can help in developing eco-friendly technologies, which requires molecular approaches to increase plant tolerance to pollutants, such as plant transformation and genetic modifications. Pollutant-induced overproduction of reactive oxygen species that cause DNA damage and apoptosis-related alterations, has also been examined. They also trigger changes at the levels of transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome, which has been discussed in this book.

In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers. It received excellent notices and is used in the curricula of civilian and military training programs and used as a source of questions for the Aerospace Medicine Certifying Examination under the American Board of Preventive Medicine. In the intervening few years, the continuous manning of the International Space Station has both strengthened existing knowledge and uncovered new and significant phenomena related to the human in space.  The Second Edition incorporates this information. Gaps in the first edition will be addressed with the addition new and revised chapters. This edition is extensively peer reviewed and represents the most up to date knowledge.

Der findes havbrug – som i bæredygtig brug af havet. Og så er der havmisbrug som i forurening af vandet og ødelæggelse af klimaet. Det er det, bogen Havmisbrug handler om: opdræt af fisk til menneskeføde.Første del af bogen er baseret på forfatterens egne første oplevelser med fisk og fiskere, fiskeri og fiskeopdræt, både herhjemme og i udlandet. Det er en spændende introduktion til et ellers ganske tungt og kompliceret emne.Herefter følger en historisk gennemgang af dansk fiskeopdræt op gennem tiderne – fra de tidligste dambrug i åerne til de seneste havbrug i fjord og hav – inden vi når de industrielle fiskeopdræt og muslingefarme, som vi kender dem i dag. Her gennemgås problemstillingerne i forhold til det stærkt forurenende opdræt af fisk i specielt åbne havbrug og det langt mindre forurenende opdræt i lukkede, recirkulerede og landbaserede anlæg. Lineopdræt af muslinger og Smartfarms gennemgås også.Det er dog kun de færreste, der ved, at de industrielle havbrug slider hårdt på hele vort klima. Helt galt går det, når foderfiskene skal fanges i Stillehavet, laksene opdrættes i Nordatlanten, og de ferske fisk siden flyves til markederne i Kina. Da er det ikke kun vandmiljøet, som gisper efter vejret på grund af algeblomst og iltsvind efter foderrester og fækalier. Da er det hele klimaet, som lider under opdrættet.Fisk opdrættet i havbrug skulle have været sunde og gode for klimaet, men er ingen af delene. Faktisk det stik modsatte.Bogen Havmisbrug henvender sig til alle, der er interesserede i klima og miljø. Det er en øjenåbner af en debatbog, der beskæftiger sig med et emne, som de færreste overhovedet skænker en tanke – men som bør stå centralt i alle ”klimatossers” bevidsthed!

Bogen bidrager til den manglende systemkritik, ud fra de helt fundamentalt materielle vilkår. Og er et redskab til oplysning og forandring. Foster og Magdorff pointe er, at der må gøre op med de fundamentale mekanismer, som karakteriserer kapitalismen, får den til at fungere, og som indbyrdes hænger sammen: Vareproduktion, bytteværdi, penge, marked, akkumulation mm. Hvis vi skal videre og ikke mindst overbevise et flertal, så må vi i gang med at udforme et alternativ uden disse træk, så konkret som det nu er muligt; ud fra grundlæggende økologiske og demokratiske principper.

Økosocialisme – fra systemkritik til alternativ.Vi er hastigt på vej mod en klima- og miljøkatastrofe, mens ulighederne vokser og magten koncentreres på stadig færre hænder. Mange har på fornemmelsen, at der er noget grundlæggende galt med et system, der driver rovdrift på natur og mennesker. Der ér et alternativ! hævder forfatterne til denne bog. De forklarer ikke kun, hvordan kapitalismen spærrer for løsninger. De giver også deres bud på et andet, økosocialistisk samfund, hvor produktionen indrettes demokratisk ud fra de samfundsmæssige behov og inden for de miljømæssige grænser. Samtidig foreslår forfatterne veje til at sætte alternativet på dagsordenen gennem rød-grønne reformer og forening af sociale og økologiske kampe. Bogen samler bidrag af forfattere fra otte lande: Søren Kolstrup, tidligere MF. Pat Devine, Storbritannien. Michael Löwy, Frankrig. Asbjørn Wahl, Nathalie Guay, Canada. Lars Henriksson, Sverige Richard Smith, USA. Daniel Tanuro, Belgien