Global Population Growth and Industrial Impact on the Environment

Silva, Francisco; Gouveia, Ronny Miguel

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23165-1_3

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“…High birth rates in families with social and economic vulnerabilities are associated with poverty and lack of access to formal education, creating a vicious circle of social problems. Also, the growing demand for natural resources to meet human consumption requirements causes environmental degradation, leading to the collapse of ecosystems and reduction of biodiversity (Vörösmarty et al, 2000;Allen, 2007;Crist et al, 2017;Gomes da Silva and Gouveia, 2020). Overpopulation, poverty, high demand for food and consumer goods, large-scale agricultural practices and industrial production, and environmental degradation act synergistically, facilitating the emergence of new pathogens among human populations.…”

Section: Social Actions To Promote the Reduction Of Population Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Control and prevention of infectious diseases from a One Health perspective

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caught the attention of the global community and rekindled the debate about our ability to prevent and manage outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Many alternatives are suggested to address these urgent issues. Some of them are quite interesting, but with little practical application in the short or medium term. To realistically control infectious diseases, human, animal, and environmental factors need to be considered together, based on the One Health perspective. In this article, we highlight the most effective initiatives for the control and prevention of infectious diseases: vaccination; environmental sanitation; vector control; social programs that encourage a reduction in the population growth; control of urbanization; safe sex stimulation; testing; treatment of sexually and vertically transmitted infections; promotion of personal hygiene practices; food safety and proper nutrition; reduction of the human contact with wildlife and livestock; reduction of social inequalities; infectious disease surveillance; and biodiversity preservation. Subsequently, this article highlights the impacts of human genetics on susceptibility to infections and disease progression, using the SARS-CoV-2 infection as a study model. Finally, actions focused on mitigation of outbreaks and epidemics and the importance of conservation of ecosystems and translational ecology as public health strategies are also discussed.

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Section: Social Actions To Promote the Reduction Of Population Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Control and prevention of infectious diseases from a One Health perspective

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“…Industrial activities continue to be the primary drivers of global economic development because of their high potential for innovation and productivity gains (Silva and Gouveia, 2020). Given the inefficient use of natural resources, industrial manufacturing and production processes are creating disastrous levels of environmental pollution, global warming, hazardous waste and ozone depletion, thus negatively influencing the ecosystem (Chang et al, 2021;Li et al, 2020).…”

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Achieving green product and process innovation through green leadership and creative engagement in manufacturing

Xia

Ali

Awan

et al. 2021

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PurposeThe aims of this study were three-fold: to determine the impact of green transformational leadership on creative process engagement, green product innovation and green process innovation; to examine the association of creative process engagement with green product and process innovation and to identify the mediating influence of creative process engagement in the association between green transformational leadership and green process and product innovation.Design/methodology/approachData was collected through a survey questionnaire from 291 middle- and lower-level managers and employees through simple random sampling in four high-tech manufacturing industries situated in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China. We examined the data through structural equation modeling using partial least squares to test the study hypotheses.FindingsThe findings unveiled that green transformational leadership and creative process engagement positively influence green product innovation and green process innovation. Similarly, green transformational leadership is positively linked with creative process engagement. The findings further revealed that creative process engagement mediates the impact of green transformational leadership on green process and product innovation. Hence, our findings provide strong support for the role of green transformational leadership and creative process engagement in improving green process and product innovation.Research limitations/implicationsOur sample is limited to China and collected from high-tech manufacturing industries.Practical implicationsDrawing on the componential theory of creativity, the authors suggest that organizational leaders, specifically those who practice green transformational leadership, should increase creative process engagement among subordinates, as it is a crucial intangible resource for green process and product innovation.Social implicationsWe suggest that a combination of green transformational leadership and creative process engagement improves green process and product innovation as well as the environmental performance of a business by eliminating all forms of hazardous material and waste.Originality/valueThis work is one of the earliest empirical studies to evaluate the influence of green transformational leadership on fostering green product and process innovation and the mediating impact of creative process engagement on the linkage among green transformational leadership, green product and process innovation within the manufacturing context.

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“…The losses are related to the unclean environment and particularly untreated wastewater in poor communities. Estimations show that many ordinary people have low incomes [41,42]. The sewage of Iranian cities, according to field observations, consists of two main parts.…”

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Managing urban wastewater to fight the pandemic of COVID-19 effectively

Shahraki¹

2021

Health Environ

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The paper reveals the role of wastewaters in the spread of Coronavirus in cities and focuses on the need for collection, treatment, and management of wastewaters. While the focus of the fight against COVID-19 is on the production of vaccines, drugs and treatments, this article emphasizes the cleanliness of the environment with wastewater management. This paper is a novel work, since it presents a multi-side research concerning fighting against coronavirus through wastewater collection and treatment. Studies show that coronavirus exists in urban wastewaters and spread the COVID-19 everywhere. Coronavirus is attacking people globally and shrinking the economy. The question addressed by this paper is; will communities overcome the coronavirus without well-collected and treated wastewaters? The methods to achieve the goals are theoretical surveys, case study strategy, mathematical modeling, statistical procedures, forecasting the future, and discussions. A mathematical model will be built to calculate the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus with the help of registered statistics and predict the future trend of the disease pandemic in Iran. Since Coronavirus has been seen in wastewaters, results of this research demonstrate the need for carefully collected and treated wastewaters to overcome the coronavirus. This paper gives suitable techniques to treat wastewater as stabilization ponds, bacterial reactors, and anaerobic ponds. Concluding, this paper suggests indicators to select a wastewater treatment technique in every city, and its outcome will assist the global community in fighting the coronavirus more successfully.

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Global Population Growth and Industrial Impact on the Environment

Cited by 19 publications

References 134 publications

Control and prevention of infectious diseases from a One Health perspective

Control and prevention of infectious diseases from a One Health perspective

Achieving green product and process innovation through green leadership and creative engagement in manufacturing

Managing urban wastewater to fight the pandemic of COVID-19 effectively

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