Abstract
Teaching of Green Analytical Chemistry (GAC) requires a not inconsiderable willingness on the part of the lecturer to familiarize himself with a relatively new field in analytical chemistry. Although there is much that can be derived from Green and Sustainable Chemistry, the GAC’s forward-looking perspectives in particular are independent approaches that must not be neglected. In the first chapter of this article, approaches are pursued “how (teachers) learn to learn,” ultimately based on a consensus on ethics, which allows dealing with people, society and the environment to become an interdisciplinary unit. The end of all this is a smart method of conflict management which provides solutions of problems. Available tools include
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Regions concerned with education (learn how to learn)
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Think tanks (to define integrative solutions for problems) and
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Turbodemogracy (to get faster results)
In the second part of the chapter, GAC and nature merge completely, in which mechanical sample collectors are replaced by mosses within the framework of bioindication and biomonitoring (B & B) technologies during atmospheric deposition measurement of chemical elements. Definitions of bioindicators and biomonitors, active and passive B & B technologies and interdisciplinary connections between bioindicative sampling and scientific interpretations of natural systems are given. Mosses are distinguished by a rather large resistance toward enhanced levels of various anthropogenic air pollutions permitting their use also in polluted areas.
This book chapter is dedicated to our colleagues Dr. Rebecca R. Sharitz and Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel who passed away in 2018. Rebecca Sharitz worked at the University of Georgia in Aiken, SC, USA, where she mainly researched highest successful on ecological processes in wetlands. For many years, Becky has been working very effectively in our International Association for Ecology (INTECOL). She was the very first woman to work with INTECOL over such a long period of time to put her scientific interests into practice together with her friends and colleagues, but fought fairly and serenely for equal rights for women in the environmental and natural sciences.
Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel worked successfully at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, especially in the context of his phytotechnological studies. Particularly, noteworthy is his extraordinary ability in the framework of different European Cooperations in Science and Technology (EU-COST) over many years to bring together scientifically and practically different European and global schools of thought. Jean-Paul had as a francophile Swiss a heart and a feeling for all kinds of “everyday” problems, which we as scientists, whether young or old, private or professional have to deal with. Many young scientists owe it personally to him that they have found their successful way into the future.
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Notes
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In the German original: “soziale Demokratie”. This term does refer/allude to “soziale Marktwirtschaft,” the concept put forward by later Federal chancellor Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), sometimes also dubbed “the Rhineland way of doing capitalism” rather than, for example, “Archiv der sozialen Demokratie” which is the central part of the party archives of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Anyway, in Germany the link between democracy/federal structuring of state and social norms is part of the constitution and even officially protected against any change (Grundgesetz articles 20, 79, 116).
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In Germany, this really became a popular term: “bildungsferne Schichten” (people who live in utmost avoidance of education). The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) studies revealed Germany to be the one country in the developed world where educational and thereafter occupational chances depend mostly on the educational status (and income levels) of the parents, more so than even in many developing countries. So a vicious circle can be established (parental poverty precludes education of the children to a level now required even to obtain a reasonable apprenticeship position) which is avoided only by more active measures pointing to the corresponding milieus and urban neighbourhoods.
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In original German: Volkshochschule. These are public institutions which have their part in advanced (not apprentice) professional education, besides universities and universities of applied sciences. There are also courses in computer skills or various modern languages. Some certification of courses at Volkshochschule can actually be used in a profession, unlike a university; an Abitur (school-leaving examination) is not required to attend.
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Markert, B. et al. (2019). Teaching Green Analytical Chemistry on the Example of Bioindication and Biomonitoring (B & B) Technologies. In: Płotka-Wasylka, J., Namieśnik, J. (eds) Green Analytical Chemistry. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9105-7_2
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