Implications Of Industrialization, By Clarence Zuvekas, Jr.
1.1 INDUSTRIALIZATION
Clarence Zuvekas, Jr. (1979) defined industrialization as process of transforming raw materials with the aid of Human resources and capital goods into consumer goods, new capital goods which permit more consumer goods (including food) and social overhead capital, which together with human resources provide new services to both individuals and business.
Joseph E. Imhanlahimhin defines industrialization “as a process of a country’s heavy dependence on large amount of goods manufactured in its territory and the services rendered, with prejudice to the sustainability of the manufacturing industries from which the foods and services emanate (lmhanlahimhin, 2002).
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In industrial ecology there must be total understanding of the connections that is involved between the systems, various parts cannot be examined in isolation, and often changes in one part of the whole system can induce changes in another part. Therefore a problem can only be understood if its part is looked at in relation to the whole. For example, a city can be divided into different parts namely commercial areas, residential areas, offices, services, infrastructures etc .These are all subsystems of the big city system. Problems can occur in one subsystem, but the solution has to be general, let’s assume the price of accommodation is rising gradually because there is too high a demand for accommodation one solution would be to build new houses in order for people to get more accommodation but this will lead to more people living in the city, also leading to the need of more infrastructure like roads, schools, supermarkets etc. this type of system is a simple interpretation of reality whose behaviours can be predicted; so therefore we don’t have to solve this problem in isolation because changes in one part of the system can cause changes in another part of the system. So this problem should be looked at in relation to the whole system (Wikipedia,
Clarence Zuvekas, Jr. (1979) defined industrialization as process of transforming raw materials with the aid of Human resources and capital goods into consumer goods, new capital goods which permit more consumer goods (including food) and social overhead capital, which together with human resources provide new services to both individuals and business.
Joseph E. Imhanlahimhin defines industrialization “as a process of a country’s heavy dependence on large amount of goods manufactured in its territory and the services rendered, with prejudice to the sustainability of the manufacturing industries from which the foods and services emanate (lmhanlahimhin, 2002).
The point that flows concomitantly from these two definitions …show more content…
In industrial ecology there must be total understanding of the connections that is involved between the systems, various parts cannot be examined in isolation, and often changes in one part of the whole system can induce changes in another part. Therefore a problem can only be understood if its part is looked at in relation to the whole. For example, a city can be divided into different parts namely commercial areas, residential areas, offices, services, infrastructures etc .These are all subsystems of the big city system. Problems can occur in one subsystem, but the solution has to be general, let’s assume the price of accommodation is rising gradually because there is too high a demand for accommodation one solution would be to build new houses in order for people to get more accommodation but this will lead to more people living in the city, also leading to the need of more infrastructure like roads, schools, supermarkets etc. this type of system is a simple interpretation of reality whose behaviours can be predicted; so therefore we don’t have to solve this problem in isolation because changes in one part of the system can cause changes in another part of the system. So this problem should be looked at in relation to the whole system (Wikipedia,