جزییات کتاب
Nowadays many developed countries are in recession and their consumption of natural resources like energy, minerals and other raw materials is lower than usual. At the same time the global prices of those materials stay at a high level because the BRICS-countries (short for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have developed their economy to a higher level. Consequently, their consumption of those materials has been reaching a higher level as well. Considering the total population of the BRICS, their need will be increasing and the prices for raw materials are obviously to remain stable or go up in the future. Prices at such high levels remind us of the fact that the available resources of refinery or processing facilities and the natural reserves of those discovered materials on earth hardly cover the increasing demand.Another more serious issue is that the result of the higher consumption has brought global pollution to the highest levels in our recorded history and an apparent threat to human health and living environment, something that concerns every body in the world. However, this should not be an excuse to hinder the people in developing countries to strive for a better life, and the only way out is to improve our techniques, develop our science and find out our new methods in order to pay the least consumption for the most gain. 412 papers were submitted for the CSAC-2014 conference and 105 papers were selected after peer review, as approved quality work. CSAC-2014 is aiming not only on the research of science and technology but more on the research of applications, looking for a rapid and immediate effect on daily life in the near future.
درباره نویسنده
روی پرویز متحده (به انگلیسی: Roy Parviz Mottahedeh؛ متولد ۳ ژوئیه ۱۹۴۰) استاد دانشگاه هاروارد در زمینه تاریخ فکری خاورمیانه و متخصص فرهنگ ایرانیان است وی جز نویسندگان جلد چهارم تاریخ ایران کمبریج (قسمت عباسیان) است