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ANNA SINIARSKA and NAPOLEAN WOLANSKI (Center for Scientific Research
and Postgraduate Studies, CINVESTAV, Merida,
Yucatan, Mexico and the Institute of Ecology of
the Polish Academy of
Sciences, Warsaw)
2000 Pages: 220 Size: 180 Χ 240 mm ISBN
81-85264-23-6 Binding: Hard
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(Human Ecology Special Issue No. 8)
Aging
process is a multi-factorial phenomenon. Aging is in fact a series of
parallel processes directly or indirectly related to one another. The editors
and co-authors N. Wolanski and A. Siniarska have a specific panoramic vision of this
phenomena based on over 40 years research experience in Poland, USA,
Yugoslavia and Mexico. J.F. Schroots from The Netherlands presents age changes in an individual organism as a
system within the more general system of nature. J. Parizkova
of Check Republic presents old age in a perspective of development in
youth period. Investigators from the U.S. discuss the role of key environmental factors in the
aging process: A.T. Steegmann and S. Hewner present the significance of the role of climate
and W. Stini describes the influence of nutrition. R. Shephard from Canada describe the
influences of movement, and physical and professional activities on the
processes of aging. S. Hewner reports on
ethnic differences in aging processes. U. Wittwer-Backofen
of Germany describes the role of society evaluated from the
perspective of ones lifespan. In the next section D. Karasik,
E. Kobyliansky and G. Livshits
of Israel describe the processes of skeleton aging. In the final
section demographic aspects of aging are reported by A. Drusini
from Italy. From different viewpoints, this
international group of scholars illuminate the process of aging; a
process common to everyone, independent of their ethnic group, race, religion
or social affiliations. Aging is an inevitable process, which only may be
delayed. Some of the chapters point to the key role environment plays and
style of life. The last chapter presents a proposal for studies on ecology of
aging, building on own existing data of A. Siniarska
and N. Wolanski (Mexico and Poland).
This
chapter is an open invitation for international co-operation on data
collected between 1959-1995. Contents.
CONTENTS
PART I: INTRODUCTORY PART - THEORY OF AGING
1. Progression and Regression in Ontogenetic
Development Ecological Perspective (Introductory Remarks) - by Napoleon Wolanski and Anna Siniarska
(Mexico-Poland)
2. Gerodynamics in Ecological Perspective - by J.F. Schroots (The Netherlands)
3. The Effects of the Interrelationship Between Diet and Physical Activity on
Aging -
by J.
Parizkova (Czech Republic)
PART II: ECOLOGICAL
FACTORS OF AGING
4. Climate and Age - by Tad Steegman and
S. Hewner (USA)
5. Nutrition and Aging - Aging and Nutrition - by W.A. Stini (USA)
6. Physical Activity and Aging: An Ecological
Perspective - by R.J. Shephard (Canada)
7. Aging and Working Capacity in
Relation to Environment - by R.J. Shephard (Canada)
8. Biological Impact on Social Strata in Aging - by U. Wittwer-Backofen (Germany)
9. Ethnic Differences and Aging - by S. Hewner (USA)
PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL
FACTORS IN AGING OF STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS
10. Ethnic and Genetic Factors in Bone Aging by D. Karasik, E. Kobyliansky and
G. Livshits (Israel)
PART IV: PATTERNS OF
STUDIES ON ECOLOGY OF AGING
11. Population Dynamics and Aging - by Andrea G. Drusini
(Italy)
12. Socio-economic and Biological Factors of Aging in Human Populations - by
A. Siniarska and
N. Wolanski (Poland-Mexico)
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