Eco-culture: life style compensation
Prasert Pavasant 1, 2
1
National Center of Excellence for Environmental and Hazardous Waste
Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, THAILAND
2
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, THAILAND
Newly developing society often moves towards the enhancement of life quality by providing
comforts in all human activities. Dilemmas occur as achieving this goal has drastically
diminished environmental quality, some problems have been regarded as unsolvable at least
in our life time. Some of the outstanding environmental concerns include the perhaps most
well known global warming problem, and the management of solid/hazardous wastes, which
have stirred international movements both in policy and research levels. Sustainability seems
to be one of the most prospective solutions, but the public realization of such solutions is still
not distributed in a macro scale. Future research directions towards these “unsolvable”
dilemmas need to be discussed in no time where it is necessary that proper eco-indicators are
being superimposed in all decision making processes. It becomes our indispensable
responsibility to find a decent balance between the traditional and new life styles. This
presentation will provide some of the current and future research activities dealing with this
topic.