Is Gaia becoming Thanatia, a resource exhausted planet? For how long can our high-tech society be sustained in the light of declining mineral ore grades, heavy dependence on un-recycled critical ...metals and accelerated material dispersion? These are all root causes of future disruptions that need to be addressed today.This book presents a cradle-to-cradle view of the Earth's abiotic resources through a novel and rigorous approach based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics: heat dissipates and materials deteriorate and disperse. Quality is irreversibly lost. This allows for the assessment of such depletion and can be used to estimate the year where production of the main mineral commodities could reach its zenith. By postulating Thanatia, one acquires a sense of destiny and a concern for a unified global management of the planet's abiotic resource endowment.The book covers the core aspects of geology, geochemistry, mining, metallurgy, economics, the environment, thermodynamics and thermochemistry. It is supported by comprehensive databases related to mineral resources, including detailed compositions of the Earth's layers, thermochemical properties of over 300 substances, historical energy and mineral resource inventories, energy consumption and environmental impacts in the mining and metallurgical sector and world recycling rates of commodities.
Article presents the review of the theoretical framework for a specific question that arose from the use of the scenario technique in the field of landscape planning. This specific issue is: does the ...use of scenarios influence the perception of the cultural landscape changes and actions the individuals take to change the cultural landscape? Review includes research articles aiming to approve the influence of scenarios and also case studies of scenario use in the field of landscape planning that perceived possible influence of scenario use on stakeholders. The decision for the review was stimulated by the growing popularity of the scenario-based studies connected with landscape planning and environmental issues. Scenarios are also an important incentive for public participation. The question is whether we can influence relations between individuals and cultural landscape by showing them evidently with scenarios, how the future landscape will look like.
Pri vse pogostejši uporabi scenarijev na področju krajinskega in prostorskega planiranja se zastavlja vprašanje, kako scenariji razvoja kulturne krajine vplivajo na dojemanje sprememb kulturne krajine pri deležnikih ter s tem posredno tudi na njihovo delovanje v kulturni krajini. Članek podaja pregled nad posameznimi tujimi raziskavami, ki se vsebinsko navezujejo na vprašanje psihološkega vpliva scenarijev na deležnike, ter primeri uporabe scenarijev v načrtovalskih postopkih, kjer so raziskovalci zasledili relevanten vpliv te metode na deležnike. Uporaba scenarijev v postopkih sodelovanja z javnostjo je zaželena metoda za spodbujanje participacije javnosti, saj scenariji zaradi svoje privlačnosti nemalokrat olajšajo komunikacijo med raziskovalci in javnostjo. Pogosta uporaba scenarijev pri prostorskem planiranju in reševanju okoljskih vprašanj je spodbudila razmislek o tem, da uporaba scenarijev, za prikaz morebitnih prihodnjih sprememb kulturne krajine, vpliva na odnos deležnikov do kulturne krajine.
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