APPLYING ODDS OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
APPLYING ODDS OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Summary/Abstract: The issue regarding environmental impact assessment has started to be debated more than 50 years ago, as diverse impacts on environment because of different human economic activities especially industrial ones have been remarked. By this was more than clear that technological advance brings not only positive desired impacts for human society but negative unwanted ones as well, especially because of environmental pollution. Such issues have been debated during the Conference for Environment in Stockholm 1972and emphasized in the first report to the Club of Rome „Limits of Growth“, published in the same year. As a direct result of the recognized state, discussions have globally been carried out in order to try finding adequate solutions to created situation. In this context the concept of Sustainable Development has emerged after engaged debates and has been defined 1987in the Brundtland Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. This means that technical, economic, as well as environmental and social systems have to be holistically considered by simultaneously approaching physical, chemical, biological, economic and social processes. Environmental impact assessment has to be carried out especially because of registered advances in technological field combined with the field of physics, bringing by this new developments in nanotechnology field, fact that emphasizes diverse applying odds in environmental field. Applying carbon nanotubes, CNTs for environmental impact assessment means designing environmental sensors for environmental monitoring.

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