Integrative training of engineer in globalized world

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Food safety in a globalized world

Editorials 212 Access to sufficient safe food is a basic requirement for human health. Ensuring food safety and security in a highly globalized world presents increasingly difficult, and often under-appreciated challenges, for governments, commercial organizations and individuals alike. The risks of unsafe food are substantial , but can be difficult to quantify. Diarrhoeal diseases – both foodb...

Redistribution Policies in a Globalized World

Fighting Infection in a Globalized World

Probably the hardest human battle, one that has lasted hundreds of thousands of years, has been the one against infection. Being able to celebrate a 30 birthday was once considered a miracle but only if one survived the perilous years of childhood. Indeed, the CDC reports that in 1900, nearly 30% of deaths worldwide occurred in children 5 and under. It is remarkable how far we’ve come in our ab...

Community-based conservation in a globalized world.

Communities have an important role to play in biodiversity conservation. However, community-based conservation as a panacea, like government-based conservation as a panacea, ignores the necessity of managing commons at multiple levels, with vertical and horizontal interplay among institutions. The study of conservation in a multilevel world can serve to inform an interdisciplinary science of co...