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ECOTECHNOLOGY, ECOTECHNICS OR ECOLOGICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


STOICA GODEANU

Issue:

SCSB, Volume X

Section:

Ecology, Limnology

Abstract:

Since the 1972 UN Conference in Stockholm, as a result of the ever growing demands of human society, ecology has witnessed a rapid development - from a theoretical science to one with profound practical implications which has received the generic name of Applied Ecology. Within it, during the last 2 decades, ecotechnologies have made great progresses, i.e. the activities of managing or restoring the ecosystems affected by various human impacts. These ecotechnologies, incorrectly called ecological biotechnologies, were grouped by the author into ecotechnics, a distinct branch of applied ecology. In the present paper these notions are clearly defined and the domains in which ecotechnologies have been developed so far are specified.

During the last century ecology progressed extremely rapidly, from a branch of the biological sciences it became an interdisciplinary science with deep implications not only in the field of biology but also in various branches of the sciences of nature, of the technical sciences or the socio-economic ones (Figure 1) (5, 6, 11).

Keywords:

ecotechnologies, biotechnologies, ecotechny, applied ecology.

Code [ID]:

SCSB200510V10S04A0021 [0002565]


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