Global Sustainability Inside And Outside The Territory - Proceedings Of The 1st International Workshop

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop

Carmine Nardone, Salvatore Rampone

• Publisher: WSPC
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9789814651332
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

This book contains the proceedings of the international workshop on global sustainability held in Benevento, Italy, on February 2014. The proceedings consist of 10 invited and contributed papers related to the broad range of aspects of sustainability in a global scenario including food safety, monitoring, soil mapping, healthcare, territorial intelligence, local food production, greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy sources, integrated development, sustainability strategies, “smart” bio-territories, replete with case studies. This book aims to provide the perspective of the diverse problems in global sustainability, and the many disciplines that could work together in achieving it. The workshop itself led to the signing of international agreements for the protection and enhancement of endangered species in the area of North Africa.

Contents:

• A Greater Sustainability is Possible (Carmine Nardone and Maria Luisa Varricchio)
• The "New" Development of Renewable Energy Sources in the World. A Potential Path Towards Global Sustainability (Carlo Sinatra)
• Global Sustainable and Integrated Development. The Case of Global Sustainable and Social Energy Program — GSSEP Onlus (Carlo Sinatra)
• A Proposal for Advanced Services and Data Processing Aiming at the Territorial Intelligence Development (Salvatore Rampone and Gianni D'Angelo)
• Visible-near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for Field Scale Digital Soil Mapping. A Case Study (Antonio P Leone, Fulvio Fragnito, Giovanni Morelli, Maurizio Tosca, Natalia Leone, Massimo Bilancia and Maria Luisa Varricchio)
• Mediterranean Agency for Remote Sensing and Environmental Control: Satellite Monitoring and Mapping (Roberto Tartaglia Polcini)
• Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions of E-commerce (Valerio Morfino, Alessandro Perrella and Salvatore Rampone)
• Pre-feasibility Study "Save the Camels" (Maria Luisa Varricchio and Carmine Nardone)
• A Food Safety and Traceability System Based on RFID Technology and Internet of Things (Gianni D'Angelo, Gianfranco De Luca and Salvatore Rampone)
• WTC (We Take Care) Experimental Smartphone App to Follow-up and Take Care of Patients with Chronic Infectious Disease: Which Impact on Patients Life Style? (Alessandro Perrella and Valerio Morfino)
• Global Sustainability for a World of 'Smart' Bio-territories (Donato Matassino)

Readership: Students, researchers, and professionals interested in the latest attempt for global sustainability.
Key Features:

• This book evidences an integrated approach to the broad range of aspects of sustainability in a global scenario

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR A WORLD OF ‘SMART’
BIO-TERRITORIES

Donato Matassino
Former Full professor of Genetic improvement in Animal production
President of ConSDABI –NFP. I. - FAO AnGR
Benevento, Italy
[email protected]

Abstract

The ‘sustainability’ has to be managed on the basis of innovative pathways taking into account the global biosphere, which can be defined as a complex of ‘anthropic-bio-geo-pedo-climatic’ factors variable in relation to the geographical area concerned. Hence the need for the ‘global sustainability’ is the basis for planning human activities in this current millennium. The concept of ‘global sustainability’ is summarized in the “State of the Planet Declaration” defined in Scientific Conference “Planet under pressure. New knowledge towards solutions” (London, 29 March 2012) and, fundamentally, proposes: (i) reorientation and restructuring of international and national institutions to innovate the governance of the ‘Earth system’; (ii) proposal of new objectives of ‘global sustainability’ taking into account various aspects: food, water, energy safety, biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable urbanization, social capital, sea and ocean protection, sustainable consumption and production; (iii) removal of constraints that prevent or reduce to less developed countries to increase their decision-making power in the international dialogue; (iv) market innovation; (v) provision of financial incentives for young entrepreneurs involved in eco-social and environmental initiatives, especially in less developed countries; (vi) promotion of education and scientific interdisciplinary research for a profitable policy orientation towards sustainability; (vii) revision of methods for GDP calculation by introducing indicators that go beyond the purely economic aspects inspired by a ‘biology - ecology - economy - culture - social sciences’ integrated vision solidifying in ‘green economy’ or ‘bio-economy’.

A fundamental element of the ‘global sustainability’ is the ‘global food security’, the theme on which EXPO 2015 “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” is focused. In this regard, it would be desirable to optimize the management of what is already produced, such example: (i) planning specific interventions to reduce the discrepancies in the food distribution at the level of planet Earth; (ii) refection and food chain rationalization; (iii) estimate of the food ‘nutraceutical’ value; (iv) insect farming for an alternative and/or supplementary animal source protein.

The bio-territory, inserted in a novel ecological vision that is inseparable from human context (human ecology), may constitute a ‘prototype’ of a new approach to manage the kaleidoscopic endogenous resources in order to promote ‘global sustainability’. Each ‘bio-territory system’, defined as “a model of sustainable management of a ‘microbioshere’ of a given ‘geographical area’ by local communities”, might individuate virtuous routes in relation to its productive potential on the basis of its originality supply. It may be seen as the ‘holistic’ moment of an ‘atomistic’ path represented by the multiplicity of its indigenous resources. The bio-territory can be intended to be managed ‘smartly’ if it firstly identifies its potential and then realize peculiar innovations suited to its real ‘productive’ potential; everything might be oriented to physical, psychic and social human development, according to the new moral imperative: ‘the ethics of care’. Some fundamental prerequisites for a ‘smart’ management of a ‘bio-territory’ in line with the ‘global sustainability’ are: (i) biodiversity; (ii) health geography; (iii) landscape; (iv) culture, research, innovation and training.

It is desirable a new science system of the global environment in which the role of the scientific community is significant in the understanding of ‘critical thresholds’ of the environmental global crisis in order to harmonize the local interventions in a global context.

1Introduction

The anthropologic, cultural-philosophical and biological value of the topic we are going to explore today is awesome. Its multidisciplinar and interdisciplinar complexity is matchless and boundless.

The present age suffers of a shaking cultural swing-and-twist and realities haunted by a deep-seated inner poverty and lacks of meaning concealed by overabudance of external apparences. The Socratic ‘enlightened ignorance’ (Italian: ‘dotta ignoranza’) stresses nevertheless that the body of knowledge – above of all those about the bios – results from a flown of endless and neverending acquisitions [1].

The boundless variability and complexity result in an abyss of nameable but continually object of search events: continuously changing events, each times different and brand-new in theirs sophisticated flowing, events resulting from an endless combinations of biological and cultural phenomena.

The grandiose and endless multiplicity of cultural and biological phenomena, characterized by a temporal and spatial dynamism in their co-evolution, is holistically able to shape an array of perceptible units that work up their way to the brain. Each human brain has the capability to elaborate this endless flow of information and answer it, but not always in an affirmative (that is: constructive) way. Each person has his/her personal and individual strategy in doing so in which lays its personal epigenetic identity.

Each person, moreover, is able to magnify this stupendous talent of him/her while sailing through the life’s chaos, as an organic biological, genetic, epigenetic, brain-led whole, thanks to a deeply-rooted self-awareness. Therefore care and wisdom are utterly required in evaluating skills, ability and clairvoyance of those intended to offer professional services: the human being’s biological complexity is almost uncontrollable.

Life’s thirst of knowledge induces such a high euphoria and passion that human brain is endlessly requested to reset its hardware in order to respond to the gorgeous variability in information. In doing so the brain yields a continuum, that is a continuous flow in the quest for scientific truth. Furthermore, there’s a brain-gender and it lies in the connective mould that is the neuronal framework (brain structural connectome). The “male” brain bears more intra-h...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Foreword
• contents
• A Greater Sustainability is Possible
• The “New” Development of Renewable Energy Sources in the World. A Potential Path Towards Global Sustainability Global Sustainable and Integrated Development. The Case of Global Sustainable and Social Energy Program - GSSEP Onlus
• A Proposal for Advanced Services and Data Processing Aiming at the Territorial Intelligence Development
• Visible-near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for Field Scale Digital Soil Mapping. A Case Study
• Mediterranean Agency for Remote Sensing and Environmental Control: Satellite Monitoring and Mapping
• Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions of E-commerce
• Pre-feasibility Study “Save the Camels”
• A Food Safety and Traceability System Based on RFID Technology and Internet of Things
• WTC (We Take Care) Experimental Smartphone App to Follow-up and Take Care of Patients with Chronic Infectious Disease: Which Impact on Patients Life Style?
• Global Sustainability for a World of ‘Smart’ Bio-territories