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Determinants Related to Threats in Information and Informatics Systems
Published in Anna Brzozowska, Dagmara Bubel, Larysa Nekrasenko, Organisation Management in the Digital Economy, 2022
Anna Brzozowska, Dagmara Bubel, Larysa Nekrasenko
From the systemic perspective, the human environment includes sets of components which – due to their nature – can be grouped in subsystems. One can distinguish natural, social, technical and information components. Interactions between them are manifested in the form of the environment which, from a person’s subjective point of view, offers the most advantageous conditions, and each of the components co-contributes to achieving the expected quality of life, which affects human well-being either positively or negatively. Indeed, the quality of the world determines the quality of life. The human anthroposphere encompasses all results of human work which have been created thanks to humans and which are meant to support humans in performing their functions. The anthroposphere is a component of the biosphere in which the humans operate. This area is normally under strong anthropopressure.
Green Smart Environment for Smart Cities
Published in Pradeep Tomar, Gurjit Kaur, Green and Smart Technologies for Smart Cities, 2019
Yaman Parasher, Gurjit Kaur, Pradeep Tomar
The anthroposphere, in general, encompasses the part of the environment that is made and modified by humans through their activities. The visible part of the anthroposphere mainly includes the construction of roads, airports, buildings, factories, power lines and numerous other features that are constructed or built by humans. With the rapid hazardous interventions of humans, the earth is undergoing major transitions in its global climate, due to which the survivability of all living species on earth is at stake. The essential features of the anthroposphere mainly include those processes that are useful for the distribution of energy, fuel and water for the collection, recycling and disposal of waste and sewage water, together with particular interest in sustainability as a whole.
Assessing the anthropogenic carbon emission of wooden construction: an LCA study
Published in Building Research & Information, 2023
Chun-Liang Lin, Wei-Hwa Chiang, Yu-Shiou Weng, Hui-Ping Wu
The environmental-friendly benefits inherent in bio-based material have encouraged the usage of wooden material in the building sector. It is conducive to the biogenic carbon sequestration from the anthroposphere, the substitution of emission-intensive construction materials (Breton et al., 2018), and the maximization of resource efficiency by the cascading use of residual and recycled biomass. While timber manufacturing could also have impacts on acidification, eutrophication, and creation of photochemical ozone, using bio-based materials, in general, remains to be encouraged mainly for its potential utility of mitigating atmospheric and anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Furthermore, wooden constructions in the built environment could become a sizable terrestrial reservoir of CO2 for decades (Breton et al., 2018).