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"Knowledge
For
Our
Times"
Knowledge is dynamic. It grows
and evolves according to the
needs of human society. In the
past, different civilizations
categorized knowledge to suit
the cultural paradigm of their
times.
A key focus of
the present
time, and an
area demanding
much further
investigation,
is the
relationship
between humans
and nature.
Sciences must be
our guide in
this endeavor,
but history too
can teach us
important
lessons of
co-existence
with our
environment. To
date, education
and the media
have only
succeeded in
fostering a
culture
characterized by
narrow vested
interests,
intolerance and
violence.
There must be a
fundamental
change in
education,
creating the
desire for
proactive
environmental
protection and
respect for
human dignity
and rights, as
the two are
mutually
empowering.
The
EOLSS
body of
knowledge
is
inspired
by a
vision
that
includes
the
following
paradigm:
The
sciences
should
be at
the
service
of
humanity
as a
whole,
and
should
contribute
to
providing
everyone
with a
deeper
understanding
of
nature
and
society,
a better
quality
of life
and a
sustainable
and
healthy
environment
for
present
and
future
generations.
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EOLSS
IS AN INTEGRATED COMPENDIUM OF TWENTY
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
 Encyclopedia
of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Encyclopedia
of Mathematical Sciences
Encyclopedia
of Biological, Physiological AND HEALTH
sciences
Encyclopedia
of biotechnology
Encyclopedia
of tropical BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
Encyclopedia
of Land use, land cover and Soil
Sciences
Encyclopedia
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Encyclopedia
of Physical Sciences, engineering and
Technology Resources
Encyclopedia
of control SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND
AUTOMATION
Encyclopedia
of Chemical Sciences, Engineering and
Technology Resources
Encyclopedia
of Water Sciences, Engineering and
Technology Resources
Encyclopedia
of Energy Sciences, Engineering and
Technology Resources
Encyclopedia
of Environmental and Ecological
Sciences, Engineering and
Technology Resources
Encyclopedia
of Food and Agricultural Sciences,
Engineering and technology Resources
Encyclopedia
of Human Resources Policy and Management
Encyclopedia of
Natural Resources Policy and ManagemeNT
Encyclopedia
of Development and Economic Sciences
Encyclopedia
of Institutional and Infrastructural
Resources
Encyclopedia
of Technology, Information, and Systems
Management Resources
Encyclopedia of
AREA STUDIES (REGIONAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REVIEWS)
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pdf version - UNESCO-EOLSS Table
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Environmental Structure
and Function: Earth System (Related chapters)
Editors :
Nikita Glazovsky, Institute of
Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Nina Zaitseva,Department of Earth Sciences,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Environmental Structure and Function: Climate System (Related chapters)
Editor : George
Vadimovich Gruza,
Institute of Global Climate
and Ecology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Geography (Related chapters)
Editor : Maria Sala,
Department of Geography,
University of Barcelona, Spain
Geology
(Related chapters)
Editors : Benedetto De Vivo,
Dipartimento di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Universita di
Napoli "Federico II", Italy
Bernhard Grasemann,
Institut fuer Geologie, University of
Vienna, Austria
Kurt Stüwe,
Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universitaet Graz,
Austria
Geophysics and Geochemistry (Related chapters)
Editor : Jan Lastovicka,
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Oceanography
(Related chapters)
Editors : Jacques C.J. Nihoul,
GeoHydrodynamics and
Environment Research (GHER), University of Liege, Belgium
Chen-Tung Arthur Chen,
Institute of Marine Geology
and Chemistry, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Tropical
Meteorology
(Related chapters)
Editor: Yuqing Wang, Department of Meteorology
and International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean
and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii at
Manoa
Advanced Geographic
Information Systems (Related chapters)
Editor : Claudia Maria Bauzer Medeiros,
Instituto de Computaco, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
(UNICAMP), Brazil
Natural Disasters (Related chapters)
Editor : Vladimir M. Kotlyakov,
Institute of Geography,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Geoinformatics
((Related chapters)
Editor: Peter M. Atkinson
,Department of Geography, University of
Southampton, UK
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Mathematics: Concepts, and Foundations (Related chapters)
Editor : Huzihiro Araki,
Research Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University,
Japan
History of Mathematics (Related chapters)
Editors :Vagn Lundsgaard
Hansen,
Department of Mathematics,
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jeremy Gray,
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Open
University, UK
Mathematical Models of Life Support
Systems
Editor: Valeri I.
Agoshkov, Institute of Numerical
Mathematics,
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia
Computational Methods and
Algorithms (Related chapters)
Editor : Vladimir V. Shaidurov
and Olivier Pironneau,
Institute of Computational
Modelling of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Laboratoire d'Analyee Numerique, Universite de Paris 6, UFR
France Optimization and
Operations Research
(Related chapters)
Editor : Ulrich
Derigs,
Department of
Information Systems and Operations
Research(WINFORS), University of
Cologne, Germany
Probability and Statistics (Related chapters)
Editor :
Reinhard Viertl,
Institute fuer
Statistik und
Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Technische
Universitat Wien, Austria
Mathematical Models
(Related chapters)
Editor:
Jerzy A. Filar, Centre
for Industrial and Applicable
Mathematics, School of Mathematics,
University of South Australia, Australia
Jacek
B. Krawczyk,
Victoria University of
Wellington,
NewZealand
Biometrics
(Related chapters)
Editors : Susan R. Wilson,
Centre for
Bioinformation Science, School of Mathematical Sciences,
Australian National University, Australia
Conrad Burden,
The Australian National University, Australia
Systems
Science and Cybernetics
(Related chapters)
Editor : Francisco Parra-Luna,
Departamento de Sociologia I, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas
y Sociologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Environmetrics
(Related chapters)
Editors: Abdel H. El-Shaarawi and Jana Jureckova
National Water research Institute, Burlington Ontario Canada
,
Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics,
Charles University Sokolovska, Czech Republic
Mathematical Models in Economics
(Related chapters)
Editor: Wei-Bin Zhang ,Ritsumeikan Asia
Pacific University, Japan
Mathematical Physiology
Editor: Andrea de Gaetano, CNR IASI Laboratorio di
Biomatematica, Roma , Italy
Cryptography and Network Security
Editor: Jintai Ding, Department of Mathematical
Sciences, University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, USA
Moti Young, Columbia University, USA
Biological Systematics (Related chapters)
Editors : Alessandro Minelli,
Department of Biology,
University of Padova, Italy
Giancarlo Contrafatto,
School of Life and
Environmental Sciences, University of Natal, South Africa
Extremophiles
(Related chapters)
(Life under extreme environmental
conditions)
Editor : Charles Gerday and Nicolas Glansdorff,
Laboratory of Biochemistry B6, Institute of Chemistry,
University of Liege, Belgium,
Department of Microbiology, Vrjie Universiteit Brussel, JM
Wiame Research Institute for Microbiology, Belgium
Fundamentals of Life (Biochemistry, Cell Biology,
Microbiology )
(Related chapters)
Editors : Ralph Kirby,
National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Physiology and Maintenance
(Related chapters)
Editors : Osmo Otto Päiviö
Hänninen and Mustafa Atalay,
Department
of Physiology, University of Kuopio, Finland
Genetics and Molecular Biology
(Related
chapters)
Editor : Kohji Hasunuma,
Yokohama City University, Kihara Institute for Biological
Research, Graduate School of Integrated Science, Japan
Reproduction and Development Biology
Editor: Andre Pires da Silva, Department of
Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Biophysics
Editor:
Mohamed I.El
Gohary,
Faculty of
Science, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Global Perspectives in Health (Related chapters)
Editor : Boutros Pierre Mansourian,
Research Policy and Cooperation, World Health
Organization(WHO), Switzerland
Immunology and Immunopathology
Editor: Lindsay Dent,
Microbiology and Immunology, Dept. of Molecular Biosciences,
University of Adelaide, Australia
Physical (Biological) Anthropology
(Related chapters)
Editor:P. Rudan,
Institute for Anthropological
Research, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Water and Health (Related chapters)
Editor : W.O.K. Grabow,
Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Pretoria, South Africa
Ethnopharmacology (Related chapters)
Editors: Elaine Elisabetsky,
Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nina L. Etkin,
Department of Anthropology,
University of Hawai'I, USA
Pharmacology (Related chapters)
Editor: Harry
Majewski,
School of Medical
Sciences, RMIT University, Victoria, Australia
Medical
Sciences
(Related chapters)
Commission Members:
President:
B.P.Mansourian,
WHO (ret.) Switzerland
Vice
Presidents:
A. Wojtczak, Institute for International Medical
Education, NY, USA
B. McA. Sayers,
Imperial College of Science,Technology and Medicine, London
UK
S.MMahfouz, Department of Pathology, Faculty of
Medicine , Cairo University, Egypt
Members:
A. A. Arata, USAID, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
A. P.R. Aluwihare, Department of Surgery,
University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka
G. W. Brauer, Health Information Science,
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
M. R.G. Manciaux, Public Health, Nancy University,
Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
J. Szczerban, Medical University of Warsaw,
Warsaw, Poland
Y. L. G. Verhasselt, Geografisch Instituut, Vrije
Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Alberto Pellegrini, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, RJ,
Brasil
Assen Jablensky, The University of Western
Australia, Perth, Australia
R. Kitney, Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine, London, UK
Arminee Kazanjian, University of British Columbia,
Canada
Tomris Türmen, WHO, Turkey
R.Leidl, Ludwig Maximilians-University, Munich and
GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health,
Institute for Health Economics and Health Care Management,
Germany
K.Sorour, Cairo University, Egypt
History of
Medicine(Related chapters)
President: Athanasios Diamandopoulos,
Renal department, St. Andrew's
regional Hospital, Patras , Greece.
Vice Presidents:
Carlos Viesca,
Head of the Department of the History
and Philosophy of Medicine, Faculty of
Medicine, UNAM, Mexico.
Alain LELLOUCH, DIM de
l’Hôpital, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Members:
K. Bergdolt, Cologne,
Germany
J. Pearn, Australia
Bernardino Fantini ,
Switzerland
Biological
Sciences
(Related chapters)
Editor: Lin,Zhi-Qing Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
Neuroscience
Editor: Jose Masdeu,
Neurological Sciences,University of
Navarra Medical School, Pamplona, Spain
Psychology
(Related chapters)
Editor : Stefano Carta,
Department of Psychology, University of Cagliari, Italy
Editors: Horst W. Doelle,
MIRCEN-Biotechnology, Australia
Edgar J. DaSilva, Section
of Life Sciences, Division of
Basic and Engineering Sciences,
UNESCO, France
(The
bulleted items in the following
represent Topic titles.
The total number of chapters is
about 130. The size of an
entry (Chapter) may vary from
about 5000 words to about 30000
words.)
(Related chapters)
International Commission on
Tropical Biology and Natural
Resources
President:
Kleber Del Claro,
Universidade Federal de
Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG,
Brazil
Vice Presidents:
Paulo S. Oliveira,
Universidade Estadual de
Campinas, Brazil
Victor Rico-Gray, Instituto
de Ecologia, A.C., México
Commissioners:
Alonso Ramirez, University of
Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA
Ana Angélica Almeida Barbosa,
Universidade Federal de
Uberlandia, Brazil
Arturo Bonet, Instituto de
Ecología, A.C., Apartado ,
Veracruz, México.
Fábio Rúbio Scarano,
Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia,
Brazil
Fernando Louis Consoli,
Universidade de São Paulo,Brazil
Francisco José Morales
Garzón, International
Center for Tropical Agriculture
(CIAT),Cali, Colombia
Jimi Naoki Nakajima,
Universidade Federal de
Uberlândia, Brazil
Marcus Vinicius Sampaio,
Universidade Federal de
Uberlandia, Brazil
Mauricio Quesada, Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Mexico
Molly R. Morris, Ohio
University, USA
Mônica Palácios Rios,
Instituto de Ecología, A.C.,
México,
Nelson Ramírez, Universidad
Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Oswaldo Marcal Júnior,
Universidade Federal de
Uberlandia, Brazil
Regina Helena Ferraz Macedo,
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Robert J. Marquis, University
of Missoury, USA
Rogério Parentoni Martins,
Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais, Brazil
Silvio Carlos Rodrigues,
Universidade Federal de
Uberlandia, Brazil
Ulrich Lüttge, University of:
Techniche Univeritat Darmstadt,
Denmark
(The
bulleted items in the following
represent Section titles. The
size of a Section may vary from
about 5 Topic level Chapters to
about 15 Topic level Chapters.
The size of an entry (Chapter)
may vary from about 10000 words
to about 30000 words.) The
total number of Chapters will
ultimately be about 140.
(Related chapters)
Tropical Ecology (TE)
Tropical Botany (TB)
Tropical Zoology (TZ)
Savannah Ecosystems (SE)
Desert Ecosystems (DE)
Tropical Aquatic Ecosystems (TAE)
Tropical Agriculture (TA)
Natural History of Tropical Plants (NH)
Human Impact on Tropical Ecosystems (HI)
Tropical Phytopathology and Entomology (TPE)
Case Studies (CS)
Editor: Willy H. Verheye,
National Science Foundation
Flanders- Belgium and Geography
Department, University of Gent,
Belgium
(The
bulleted items in the following
represent Topic titles.
The total number of chapters is
about 75 The size of an
entry (Chapter) may vary from
about 5000 words to about 30000
words.)
(Related chapters)
Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences
Land Cover, Land User and the Global Change
Land Evaluation
Land Use Planning
Land User Management
Deforestation in the Amazon: Past, Present and Future
Dry Lands and Desertification
Soils and Soil Sciences
Management
(Related chapters)
Editor : Andrew P. Sage,
School of Information Technology and Engineering, George
Mason University, USA
Demography (Related chapters)
Editor: Zeng Yi
, Center for Demographic
Studies, Duke University, Durham, USA; Center for Healthy
Aging and Family Studies, Peking University ,China
Education for Sustainability
(Related chapters)
Editors : Robert V. Farrell,
College of Education, Florida International
University(FIU), USA
George Papagiannis,
Florida State University, USA
Archaeology
(Related chapters)
Editor : Donald L. Hardesty,
College of Arts and Science, Department of Anthropology,
University of Nevada, Reno, USA
World System History
(Related chapters)
Editors:
George Modelski ,
Department of
Political Science, University of
Washington,
Settle,
Washington WA, USA
Robert A. Denemark,Department
of Political Science, University
of Delaware,USA
Linguistic Anthropology
(Related chapters)
Editor: Anita Sujoldzic, Institute for
Anthropological Research,
University of Zagreb, Zagreb,
Croatia
Fundamental Economics
(Related chapters)
Editor : Mukul Majumdar,
Department of Economics, Cornell
University, USA
World Civilizations
(Related chapters)
Editor: Robert Holton,
Trinity College, University of Dublin,
Dublin, Ireland
Historical Developments and Theoretical Approaches in
Sociology
(Related chapters)
Editor: Charles Crothers, Auckland
University of Technology, New Zealand
Cultural Anthropology
(Related chapters)
Editor:
Michael Eugene Harkin,
University of Wyoming, Laramie,
WY, USA
Linguistics
(Related chapters)
Editors : Vesna
Muhvic-Dimanovski, University of Zagreb,
Lelija Socanac,
Department of Language Research of the Croatian Academy of Sciences
Law
(Related chapters)
Editors : Aaron Schwabach and Arthur J. Cockfield,
Center for Global Legal Studies, Thomas Jefferson School
of Law, USA,
Queen's University, Faculty of Law, Canada
Environmental Laws and Their Enforcement
(Related chapters)
Editors : A. Dan Tarlock,
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA
Culture, Civilization and
Human Society (Related chapters)
Editors
: Herbert Arlt and Donald G.
Daviau,
Research Institute for Austrian
and International Literature and
Cultural Studies (INST),
Austria,
University of
California, Riverside CA, USA
Religion, Culture, and
Sustainable Development (Related chapters)
Editors:
Roberto Blancarte Pimentel,
El Colegio de Mexico, México
Philosophy and World Problems (Related chapters)
Editor: John
McMurtry,
University of Guelph, Canada
Government and Politics (Related chapters)
Editors : Masashi Sekiguchi,
Tokyo Metropolitan University,
Japan
Journalism and Mass
Communication (Related chapters)
Editor : Rashmi Luthra,
University of Michigan, USA
Literature and the Fine Arts
(Related chapters)
Editors : Herbert Arlt and Donald
G. Daviau,
Research Institute for Austrian and International
Literature and Cultural Studies (INST), Austria,University
of California, Riverside CA, USA
Peace, Literature, and Art
(Related chapters)
Editor: Ada Aharoni,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, The S. Neaman
Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology,
And PCC: the Peace Culture and Communications Commission of
IPRA, Israel
Comparative Literature: Sharing
Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity
(Related chapters)
Commission Members:
President: Lisa
Block de Behar ,
University
of Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Vice President:
Paola Mildonian,
Universita Ca
Foscari di Venezia, Venezia, Italy
Vice President:
Jean-Michel Djian, University
of Paris 8, France
Vice President:
Djelal Kadir ,Department of
Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA, USA
Vice President:
Alfons Knauth,
Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
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