Three Eras of Environmental Concern

Three eras of micellization.

Micellization is the precipitation of lipids from aqueous solution into aggregates with a broad distribution of aggregation number. Three eras of micellization are characterized in a simple kinetic model of Becker-Döring type. The model assigns the same constant energy to the (k-1) monomer-monomer bonds in a linear chain of k particles. The number of monomers decreases sharply and many clusters...

Urbanization and Environmental Concern

Today, half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, 70 percent of the population will be urban. India has been witnessing massive urbanization. Over the six decades since independence, India’s population grew three-fold from 350 million in 1947 to 1027 million in the year in 2001. During the same period, the urban population grew almost 4.6 fold as fast – from 62.4 million to 2...

Analysis of Coagulation–fragmentation Equations: Three Eras of Micellization

Some Global Environmental Issues of Public Concern

In this talk I will pick three key environmental issues that dominate the risk or impact, or dominate the public perception thereof: (a) What is the effect upon health of particulate air pollution at today's levels? Experts increasingly believe that fine particulates kill 70,000 people a year in the USA, but this has not yet been officially admitted by any government. (b) What is the effect of ...

Ukrainian Agriculture and Agri- Environmental Concern

This paper presents an overview of the development of macroeconomic conditions in Ukrainian agriculture from 1990 to the present, and highlights the main features of land privatization & farm reorganization that have strong impact on the environment. In this regard, the review describes the major agri-environmental issues drawn from national Ukrainian datasets accompanied by a discussion of the...