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During the primitive civilization and agricultural civilization periods, the functions and structures of various elements within the ecological and economic system were able to develop synergistically. But humans were always passive in the face of nature and cannot yet break free from its constraints and oppression. During the period of industrial civilization, the contradiction between the unlimited expansion of economic system demand and the relative reduction of ecosystem supply became increasingly severe. Its development model had obvious non ecological economic characteristics, which posed a great threat to the sustainable development of human society. The ecological turn in the development of human civilization is an inevitable trend, and the gradual replacement of industrial civilization by ecological civilization will become an objective fact. Ecological civilization has overcome the non ecological economic nature of industrial civilization and established an ecological economic operation mode that promotes and transforms economic and ecological systems in both directions. It has achieved a perfect combination of ecological operation of social and economic systems and economic operation of natural ecosystems, and harmonious, coordinated, and win-win development of economic society and natural ecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heavy metal contamination has occurred as a result of industrial civilization. Zinc, copper, chromium, and lead are the most prevalent heavy metal pollutants. Heavy metal contamination has arisen as a significant environmental issue on a global scale. Human and environmental health is at risk when soils are contaminated. as well as having poor engineering qualities. Solidification/Stabilization is a critical remediation strategy for polluted soils which is both efficient and cost-effective. The solidification/stabilization approach has been frequently used to rehabilitate heavy metal-contaminated areas. First, The use of gypsum to strengthen and leach polluted soils was reviewed. Also, cement/fly ash-solidified/stabilized soils have better engineering qualities. On the other hand, the global output of phosphogypsum surpasses 300 million tons, raising disposal and environmental problems every year. The efficiency of the phosphogypsum-based stabilization/solidification technique was investigated, and the methods employed biochar and chemical agents such as citric acid and FeCl3. This review examines various remediation options as well as innovative soil amendments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper establishes a theoretical framework to study the fundamental changes in the concept and mechanism of China's ecosystem protection under the paradigm of ecological civilization, and its major implications for global sustainable development. We first examine the damage to the ecosystem of the standard economic growth model, and provide empirical evidence that the traditional ecosystem protection paradigm based on the concept of industrial civilization has been unable to curb serious ecological degradation on a global scale. We then build a new theoretical model to reveal China's new ecosystem protection paradigm based on the concept of ecological civilization, and analyze how it forms a mutually beneficial relationship with economic development by changing the content and mechanism of economic growth. Furthermore, we conduct an empirical analysis of the paradigm shift of China's ecosystem protection and show that there is a significant synergy between China's ecological conservation and economic development under the new paradigm. Finally, we use a game theory model to reveal the significant implications of China's new ecosystem conservation paradigm for global ecological protection, especially for the realization of the expected goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the nineteenth century, the century of electricity and railways, radio and cinema, in the process of vertiginous technical progress, within the industrial civilization, appears a new phenomenon of creative, artistic and scientific activity – design. It gave birth to a “way of industrial thinking”, oriented towards creating useful and functional objects, but at the same time able to delight the eye with their beauty without recurring to ornament and decoration effects.

Heavy metal contamination has occurred as a result of industrial civilization. Zinc, copper, chromium, and lead are the most prevalent heavy metal pollutants. Heavy metal contamination has arisen as a significant environmental issue on a global scale. Human and environmental health is at risk when soils are contaminated. as well as have poor engineering qualities. Solidification/Stabilization is a critical remediation strategy for polluted soils which is both efficient and cost-effective. The solidification/stabilization approach has been frequently used to rehabilitate heavy metal-contaminated areas. First, The use of gypsum to strengthen and leach polluted soils was reviewed. Also, cement/fly ash-solidified/stabilized soils have better engineering qualities. On the other hand, the global output of phosphogypsum surpasses 300 million tons, raising disposal and environmental problems every year. The efficiency of the phosphogypsum-based stabilization/solidification technique was investigated, and the methods employed biochar and chemical agents such as citric acid and FeCl3. This review examines various remediation options as well as innovative soil amendments.

The development mode oo industrial civilization hae created huge materiaO wealth for human societe, but at the same time the severs ecological probleme that have arisen from it have made human civilization fall inte tee dispersion ol unsustainabte development. The industrialized development mode hao obvioue non-ecological economic qualitiee, which are specifically manifested in the destruction ol' the ecological economy relationship beteeen nature and mankind, the emercencc ol' cracks ol' metabolism betteen nature and mankind, the unbalanced development ol' the social productive forces and the natural productive forces, and tee functioning ol' one-way lineae non-circulae economy. Undeo tee trend ol' ecological evolution ol' human civilization, the cnduetocaoccecocaatcn wcobeoepoaced bytheec7oiccaoccecocaatcn, and then thecnduetocaoec7n7mccdeeeopmentm7dewcobetoane'omed cnttheec7e logical economic development mode. As a resuit, the predicament uC oncc unsustainabie development has been gradualiy dispersed and human civilization entero a beautifui new era ol coordinated development ol economic society and natural ecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The industrial civilization has played an irreplaceable role in the evolution of human civilization, but it is dispelled by the serious ecological problems it has brought about. Thus, the prosperous industrial civilization cannot develop sustainably because of the loss of the solid natural ecological foundation. From the perspective of ecological economics, its whole process shows obvious non-ecological appearances, which are the sharpness of the basic contradiction of the ecological economic system, the predatoriness of the ecological economic structure and the inevitability of the ecological crisis. These non-ecological appearances reflect the objective factual state of separation and opposition between the economic system and the ecological system in the process of the industrial civilization development. Only by transforming the industrial civilization into the ecological civilization can human civilization evolve sustainably. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global changes in the modern world cannot be adequately described on the basis of neoliberal thinking and require a new approach. It can be formed on the basis of the cyclical-wave characterization of the development of mankind. The hypothesis about the wave-like development of the world economy with a certain cyclicity lies at the heart of thisresearch. The authors determined the economic basis of the formation, development and change of these waves (technological ways and technical revolutions). These changes reflect in the cyclical fluctuations of the world economy.The mechanism of these fluctuations is described by the theory of “large cycles of the economic conjuncture” by N. Kondratiev. The authors propose a methodology and methodological tools for analyzing and forecasting cyclic-wave processes in the economic development. The study has concluded that it is the regularities of K-cycles that allow one to correctly assess the ongoing processes in the world economy, to forecast possible variants of their development. The authors came to the conclusion that the development of the world economic structure is necessarily accompanied by a cyclical shift in the instruments of capital accumulation (material and financial expansion). These processes are reflected in the periodic replacement of scientific paradigms of economic development and management. The state always takes an active part in the phase of the dominance of productive capital, and the ideological paradigm is of a directing nature. While in the phase of domination of financial capital the liberal paradigm becomes dominant. We have substantiated the thesis about the transition from the American to the Asian systemic cycle of capital accumulation, which would inevitably lead in the middle of the 21st century to the shift of the center of the world economy from the West to the East. The paper concludes that the world is facing a change from the Monopolistic world economic structure to the Integrated world economic structure. The authors formulated the main contradiction of our present day — the confrontation of the dying Industrial Civilization in the face of the cumulative West and the emerging Information Society. The authors analyzed the main tendencies, problems and possible alternatives to the development of the world economy. It can ensure the development and adoption of political decisions for the most painless transition of Russia to the emerging forms and institutions of the global economy.

Ecological civilization is not a new form of civilization that will replace the current industrial civilization, but a basic structure or factor running through all forms of civilization (from hunting and fishing society to agricultural, industrial, and then information civilizations). Information civilization is a new form of civilization following industrial civilization. Only after a new ecological civilization has been achieved will it be possible to sustain an information society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Screen culture in its development has gone through six phases: the transition from industrial to post-industrial civilization; the emergence of industrial civilization; the mosaic culture; the visuality after the history of art; the cyclical development of culture; the new visuality. The study of the logic of screen culture formation requires consideration not only of the history of images in the culture after the fact of art history, but those periods in the functioning of the images that precede the history of art. В статье рассматриваются шесть этапов, какие прошла в своем становлении экранная культура: в ситуации перехода от индустриальной к постиндустриальной цивилизации; на стадии становления индустриальной цивилизации; на стадии мозаичной культуры; на стадии визуальности после истории искусства; с точки зрения циклической логики функционирования культуры; на фазах новой визуальности. для исследования логики становления экранной культуры требуется рассмотрение не только истории изображений, функционирующих в культуре после собственно истории искусства, но и тех периодов в функционировании изображений, которые предшествуют истории искусства.

Ernest Gellner's work on nationalism is situated in a larger social metaphysic and philosophical anthropology. This paper investigates some of these overarching intellectual commitments and their implications for his arguments about nationalism. Two main issues are examined. Does the method of 'philosophic history' provide any philosophical or methodological support for his treatment of nationalism? What are the implications of the common culture of industrial civilization for his arguments about nationalism? Addressing these issues together contributes to the continuing evaluation of Gellner's work, particularly to recent discussion of his arguments about necessity and nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oil has been the cheap energy source that has fired the industrial society for the last century. However, ominous signs of oil depletion are ringing an eerie gong. The implications for dwindling supplies of cheap oil are catastrophic for industrial societies, and also the yearned-for economic development of the less developed countries. These less developed countries have already set their will towards becoming industrialized, to have economic development similar to that of the Western more developed countries. However, the bare facts of oil depletion show there are considerable barriers to thwart the expansion of economic development to the world's less developed as oil prices head higher. This may all work together to facilitate civilization clash in a grab for the world's oil resources. Nations may weld together to forge continent-wide civilization superpowers, to prevail for advantage in the looming new worldwide post-oil era, when cheap readily available oil cannot be taken for granted. This will prove to be a test of how the newly formed superpowers will cooperate or compete with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]