Electronic waste trade and "sustainability" in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana. At the end of a supply chain?

The rapid increase in the production and consumption of electrical and electronic equipment has resulted in high volumes of electronic waste and its associated trade from the Global North to the Global South. In the Global South, there is often little or no regulation or ineffective regulation and electronic waste is mainly managed by low skilled workers in the informal sector. Electronic waste contains hazardous components which when managed improperly can negatively impact human health and the environment. This paper reviews how the informal workers in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, manage and dispose of e-waste mainly from the Global North. Using a stakeholder's perspective, this paper explores the benefits and risks of e-waste "recycling" in Agbogbloshie; the next steps that could be taken to implement an environmentally safe process of e-waste management in Ghana, and how willing stakeholders (chosen for this research) are to be involved in stakeholder engagement. Using environmental justice as a framework, it explores the value of recycling electronic waste in Agbogbloshie. The paper concludes that it is not worth the risks associated with managing electronic waste. The paper makes recommendations based on stakeholder engagement, regulation, and the incorporation of sustainable business practices in the electronic industry's operations based on best practices and on input from the stakeholders that were interviewed in Ghana. The recommendations attempt to find ways of reducing the influx of electronic waste into Ghana and to move the current management and disposal of electronic waste towards an environmentally safer manner of managing electronic waste, in order to minimize the negative impacts

Hysterical attributes in the production and subjects of art work

Perhaps no other disorder known to man has been more misunderstood than hysteria. Approaches to hysteria have tended to use outmoded models drawn from ancient medicine, relegating it as an exclusively female medical category. Within contemporary medicine approaches to hysteria have been further hindered by polemical arguments that it is exclusively or almost exclusively a female disorder and whether its causes are psychological or physiological, mind or organic. This paper takes a considered approach to hysteria and situates it as a universal condition that integrates both male and female, mind and body, medical and non medical. Its investigation over cross disciplinary territory gives us valuable insight into the causes of hysteria, its impact in a social context, its considerable role in the creative field and its attributes in the production and subjects of art work. Through my own work and the visual artists Annette Messager, Hanne Darboven, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape; the writer Marguerite Duras; and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, I interrogate the modern hysteric’s pain and numbness. Mallarmé believed that the essence of poetry was to use words to filter out our over supply of words by creating silence around them. The paradoxical strategy of expressing silence through the deployment of language, as opposed to silence as absence, highlights the devaluation and credibility of language or more precisely, inauthentic language. My thesis proposes a possible alternative language in art, for art’s dilemmas and strategies as well as to ease the pain and numbness of the modern day hysteric. This non-verbal language is based on a constant flow of energy, an ever-present activity of thinking and feeling, an ongoing process that takes place across time and space whereas the inside/outside, mind/body, either/or, I/other, artist/viewer become inseparable

Unhealthy Leadership in the Christian Church: A Study of the Divorce Rate

The purpose of this project is to bring healing and direction to a particular area of the Christian church that is destroying marriages and greatly emotionally damaging children and families. This specific research will look at both the divorce rate in the secular community and the divorce rate in the Christian church, thus comparing and contrasting the two. While at the same time, showing how unhealthy leadership in the Christian church continues this damage. Furthermore, this research will also illustrate which gender is most likely filing for the divorces here in the 21st century and answer the questions why, where, and how? At the same token, this thesis project will analyze the effects Christian divorces have on the children involved from a spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional perspective. In addition, to answering the questions why, where, and how? This thesis project will impact the Christian church at-large in a way that will encourage Christian churches to look at qualified authentic pastoral leadership that will actually deal with the divorce rate in their churches, as opposed to simply facilitating outcome-driven preachers who only care about the numeric size of the church instead of caring about actually saving biblical marriages and traditional families

Proceedings of ARCOM Doctoral Workshop on 'Industry 4.0 and Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment': ARCOM Doctoral Workshop in association with CIB W120 - Disasters and the Built Environment

Disruptive innovations of the 4th industrial revolution are now starting to make an impact on construction. Although construction has lagged behind some of the other industries in embracing this revolution, recent years have seen a concentrated effort to drive change in construction processes and practices. The 4th industrial revolution is characterised by technologies such as digitisation, optimisation, and customisation of production, automation and adaptation; as well as processes such as human machine interaction; value-added services and businesses, and automatic data exchange and communication. In construction, the applications of Industry 4.0 include 3D printing of building components, autonomous construction vehicles, the use of drones for site and building surveying, advanced offsite manufacturing facilities etc. The application of technologies, processes associated with Industry 4.0 is seen to be already making an impact on construction, and reshaping the future of built environment. This new digital era of construction, fuelled by Industry 4.0, has significant potential to enhance disaster resilience practices in the built environment. Knowledge on resilience of the built environment including preparedness, response and recovery has advanced significantly over the recent years and we are now in an era where resilience is seen as a key constituent of the built environment. But the recurring and devastating impacts of disasters constantly challenge us to improve our practices and seek ways of achieving greater heights in our quest of achieving a resilient built environment. It is often proposed that the innovations associated with Industry 4.0 joined by IoTs and sensors can be exploited to enhance the ability of the built environment to prepare for and adapt to climate change and withstand and recover rapidly from the impacts of disasters. This integration of cyber physical systems through IoTs needs a holistic view of disaster resilience. Often, the focus is on benefits individual technologies can offer. However, the ability to integrate different aspects of disaster resilience using a range of new technologies promise to deliver wider benefits beyond and above what individual technologies can offer. For instance, an integrated digital twin allows to bring together advanced risk modelling, big data, cloud computing, internet of things, advanced off-site manufacturing, etc. together to deliver a resilient built environment. This requires careful planning and extensive research on the complexities surrounding disaster resilience related aspects and the use of related data. The ultimate objective of any new innovation, including Industry 4.0, should ideally be to benefit the society. The society that we live today is often disrupted by natural hazard induced disasters, whether it be floods, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides or tsunamis. The challenge that is in front of us is to effectively utilise new innovations driven by digital information to enhance disaster resilience in our buildings, communities, cities and regions. However, unlike earlier industrial revolutions, digital revolution is not easy to control. We must ensure that the fundamental values such as freedom, openness and pluralism are inbuilt in these new technologies. This is an uncharted territory for us. In addition to addressing complexities and challenges of using Industry 4.0 technologies, we also need to have policies and guidelines on the use of information. There should be a balance between innovation and regulation. We are confident that by bringing together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers alike from relevant disciplines we can deliver realistic benefits to transform our disaster resilience practices and policies, and make the built environment we live in more resilient

IJSAP Volume 03, Number 03

TABLE OF CONTENTS – VOL. 3(3), 1982 LETTERS EDITORIALS The Issue of Science and the Issue of Care – A.N. Rowan The Slippery Semantics of a Word: “Dominion” – M.W. Fox NEWS AND ANALYSIS Pound Animals for Research Institutions? Fish Relieved to Find They Are Animals Further Work on EEC Standards for Battery Cages Between a Rock and a Hard Place Taking a More Accurate Census Sociology and Wildlife: The Tuna-Porpoise Controversy Alternatives in Canada Protecting Laboratory Animals No British Aid for LD50 Alternatives The BVA and Animal Experimentation AVWA Animal Welfare Committee to Focus on “Veterinarian Awareness” Adrenal Steroid Insufficiency in Racehorses Mixed Reviews for Automatic Poultry Walker Standing on Their Own Two Feet Survey Uncovers Americans’ Ignorance About Animals Clever Modification of Ames Test Monitors Environmental Mutagens Ban on Sperm Whaling May End Alternatives at NIH? COMMENTS Effects of Psycho-physiological Stress on Captive Dolphins – N. Carter The Judeo-Christian Tradition and the Human/Animal Bond – J. Rimbach No Need to Be Boxed In: Group Pens and Grain for Veal Calves – M. Mosner Reporting Requirements Under the Animal Welfare Act: Their Inadequacies and the Public’s Right to Know – M. Solomon The Silver Spring 17 – A. Rowan ORIGINAL AND REVIEW ARTICLES Urban Wildlife Habitat—Present and Future – D. Tylka Some Thoughts on the Laboratory Cage Design Process – M.E. Wallace Ethical Issues and Future Directions in Wildlife Management – J.W. Grandy LEGISLATION AND REGULATION CURRENT EVENTS BOOK NEW