BioHumaNomics


2012


The EnviroQuantum Companies



Rodrigo A. Guajardo

Efevretis


Developing  BioHumaNomics
An examination on when a community, a region, or country is in economic disarray, sometimes the introduction and integration of Bioeconomics with the existing Human Capital, conveys a stable socio-economic development, a sustainable industry, and bonanza for the region.  This study encompasses the inclusion of the human stock of competencies, knowledge, social and personality attributes, including a technological creativity to be embodied in the ability to perform labor, so as to produce economic value.




















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Human Capital & Bioeconomics

Human Capital

The concept and notion of “Human Capital” refers to the accumulation of a set of mastered skills and applicable knowledge that is an intrinsic part of the capacity and ability of individuals (humans) to perform, execute, and carry out labor.  Labor is a precious commodity.  It is a measure of the work done by human beings so as to produce an economic value, which is the value of the labor itself, and the value of its use as to produce a worth in exchange for the labor.

These abilities that make up the human capital are highly diversified and heterogeneous; with high and low ends in technology and knowledge, all require some level of expertise to yield a tangible value.  The ability to perform labor that requires high technological level and vast knowledge does not necessarily mean that this labor will yield a higher value in exchange.  An example of this is that in impoverished countries a nanotechnology engineer will struggle to survive and to find a job, while a construction worker will earn his living with less difficulty and more opportunities. 

In order for a nation to attain a relevant advantage and effectively benefit from a superior output of manufacturing, it needs to be in possession and control of a particular resource or commodity.  This particular resource can also be a particular technique or knowledge that enhance and escalate production proficiency by reducing the need for massive supplies and resources, or it can be a labor stock, a fungible resource whose distinctive pieces are capable of reciprocal substitution, or a “know-how” principle, thus reducing the adverse risk of changes in international trade that are normally ruled by the technological levels, sophistication, and complexity of countries.

How do we develop the Human Capital to become effective and to produce a high value in exchange?

I think the answer to this riddle resides in the application and fusion of Bioeconomics and  Human Capital.  According to the American economist Gary Becker (1930- ), we use sociobiology to explain human behavior in a capitalist economic system, where maximizing the focus of behavior, the market equilibrium and established inclination is the key for an effective and sustainable economic approach.  I do believe that there is also the necessity to generate fungible resources, standardized and easily interchangeable to uphold and cultivate labor, commodities, resources, and markets. 

This would steadily lead to a security in the sustainment of labor, to a decrease of the unwelcomed effects of the technological gap between countries, and to the lessening of regional economic hardships where other countries have a ruthless trade advantage because of their tremendous ability to innovate.  A country can achieve extreme technological  efficiency and reach tremendous trade advantages, but it is always vulnerable of a trade deficit as of result of disproportionate internal production costs and labor unrest.

Adam Smith (June 16, 1723 – July 17, 1790)

Adam Smith was a prominent western social philosopher from the school of Classical Economics born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland; and a pioneer of what we know as "political economy".  He developed ideas such as Classical economics, where his work  "The Wealth of Nations" published in 1776 is  considered the beginning of classical economics.  Other ideas such as modern free market, where prices are determined by supply and demand; the division of labor, which talks about the specialization of cooperative labor in specific, hemmed in specific tasks and roles alike; and coined the metaphor the "invisible hand", a term modern economists employ to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace.  Adam Smith defines Human Capital as:

“Fourthly, of the acquired and useful abilities of all the inhabitants or members of the society. The acquisition of such talents, by the maintenance of the acquirer during his education, study, or apprenticeship, always costs a real expense, which is a capital fixed and realized, as it were, in his person. Those talents, as they make a part of his fortune, so do they likewise that of the society to which he belongs. The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labor, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a profit.”.

Strategic Remuneration

The way we pay our employees determine if they are treated as humans beings, or simply as a commodity.  It is sad to realize that most companies do not have workers in their ranks, but cashable commodities that can be sacrificed to recover from financial losses, or used to cover lack of profits.  The company simply will get rid of their workers to savage the profits of the administration and the stockholders.  In this there is no dignity or moral demureness, and the human beings are traded as a simple commodity of a spare value.

The only irreplaceable asset that any industry will ever have, is their workers; their Human Capital.  An enterprise without Human Capital, of any size, cannot exist.  The most successful businesses and the most flourishing countries will be those that understand the value of their Human Capital, and treated with respect, fairness, and dignity.  Fair wages will always secure the management of Human Capital in the most effective and efficient manner and provide the company a steady and secure pace to a balanced growth.

Strategic remuneration is not about tactics, but about fairness to establish the difference between treating your labor force as Human Capital, or as a commodity.  Human Capital possesses social capital, commodities; not.   Social capital is the predictable reward of  collective social prosperity and economic benefits, consequential to the better treatment and collective cooperation between individuals and groups; and companies and countries.  Commodities cannot do this simply because the advantage of "knowledge" in any group  or  society, begins, stays in motion, and ends with people.

"The foundation of the health of your wallet rests on the health of your worker's wallets".
 - Me.

Bioeconomics

Bioeconomics is the theory of economic exploitation of living resources.  These resources are associated with two dynamic systems: population dynamics and the dynamics of the economic system of the target region; where the population dynamics determines the availability and capacity of the labor force, and the economic system is the combination of the various agencies, entities, and/or sectors that provide the economic structure that defines the social community and their capacity to compete in the market.

In our format and method, Bioeconomics is defined as an economic mechanism that seeks to manage renewable resources so as to create or as to optimize, a computation of net present value.  In order for these to succeed, these concepts must be reeled into an institution capable of managing and make these concepts work.

Why into an institution?  When transactions and information are difficult to implement and to maintain, and when business dealings are costly, and the exchange of values between supply and demand are non-simultaneous or reciprocal; then institutions make a difference.  They become of importance because the volume of the trade of goods under turbulent circumstances can impair the industry.  The industry can be severely affected by labor behavior, raw material availability, political unrest, economic opportunistic behavior, governmental agency interference, and social stability.

Solidly established institutions can constrain and manage these disruptive behaviors, allowing the partakers to take advantage of the gains from trade and specialization that Bioeconomics brings.  Institutions also facilitating cooperation, bring stability, and entice individuals to adhere to institutional rules because they achieve security and regulatory stability by doing so.  The individual advantages derived from a well established and solid institution towards its members, are indivisible from the structure of the institutions and from the profit of its members; serving this way to the interests of the group, as well as those of the individual.

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994)

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born as Nicolae Georgescu  in Constanta, Kingdom of Romania.  He was a brilliant Romanian-American mathematician, an statistician, and a prolific economist.

Georgescu-Roegen's contribution to social economics was his development of a comprehensive theory of economy, society, and biophysical constraints.  He called this new approach "Bioeconomics" and published his most accessible statement of it in this Review, in 1977.  Bioeconomics -also: Biophysical Economics, or the origins of Ecological Economy- is the study of the dynamics of living resources using economic models.

"Indeed Georgescu first put forward "Bioeconomics" as a discipline based on parallel knowledge and application of social, economical, and biophysical principles and emphasized the importance of an understanding on the reciprocal influence of these principles".
- © Kozo Mayumi and John M. Gowdy 1999. 

Respect for the land and its inhabitants

The land is not just the land, and does not belong just to us.  We share this planet with animals, insects, plants, marine creatures, and other human beings.  We are experts in displacing, destroying, or annihilate other species in favor of our own survival; but it does not have to be this way.  We can be more conscientious of the other creatures of the planet,  and we can try to maintain a balance between them, and our survival.  Consideration is a small word with a gigantic content, and every time we are considerate, we grow as human beings.  We have invented respect, dignity, and fairness, and we should share these principles with other creatures to live in harmony without living on a severe moral diet.  Coexistence and survival are harmonic principles integrated to BioHumaNomics.

So, how we make all of this work?

Although the formula seems to be very simple, the concept and its implementation are more difficult and tricky to put into practice, and moreover; maintain it in a balanced and enduring manner.  History has shown that when a community, a region, or country is in economic disarray, sometimes the integration of Bioeconomics into the existing Human Capital happens by chance, out of despair, and sometimes out of survival necessity.

Let’s take rice, for example.  Rice is fundamental in Asia, and it has a long and interesting history. 

In regions of Asia, scientists believe that after the lands long inhabited by humans were flooded, all living vegetation, plants, and flora were destroyed.  Then, the destruction of the Biota brought animal extinction, thus making hunting very difficult and sustainment for human beings was extremely difficult, if not impossible.  One day, as the ancient, but popular tale tells, a dog came scampering across a hunting field, and it was sighted by the chinese hunters who were looking for prey in the field.  As the hunters carefully approached the dog, they noticed that the dog’s fur was scattered with some unusual yellow seeds affixed to it.  The chinese people thought that it could be seeds and not knowing what these kernels were, they tasted them, bite them, and finally took them home, and planted them.  As a result, according to the folkloric story, rice grew out of these seeds. 

All of the sudden, this small, miraculous grain that awkwardly arrived on a dog’s back, fed tens of millions of people for extended periods of time, longer than any other known grain did until that time.  Several species of rice are in existence, but it is widely believed that rice species were developed from other forms of it, towards the end of the Tertiary Period, almost at the end of the Miocene Epoch and the beginning of the Pliocene Epoch, approximately 15 million years ago.  We humans showed up next in the Quaternary Period, about 1.6 million years ago.

Early evidence from archeologists’ findings showed that rice was a commodity and a significant economic factor dating back as early as 2500 BC during the late Neolithic period in the Yangtze basin.  In 1966, an important discovery in South East Asia was made by Wilhelm G. Solheim II, an American anthropologist, son of Wilhelm G. Solheim I, a botanist.  He found fragments and remains of pottery that had clear imprints of rice on them.  These olden ceramic objects were discovered in Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand, known today as Korat city.  Following extensive testing and authenticity trials, it was established devoid of doubts that these vestiges dated back to 4000 BC.   

The chinese people in due course gave rise to a process of growing and producing rice, developed knowledge to do it properly, and employed tens of thousands of people to bring to fruition this massive industry.  Today, this long-standing system is still widely used in China and in other countries.  Over the years, this process that grew out of necessity, tamed and integrated rice into China’s socio-economics.

So there you have it.  An alliance between human capital and Bioeconomics was born out of necessity, curiosity, and survival neediness, and this relationship is still alive and productive.  No knowledge and or skills were present at the beginning, but they were developed and incorporated later.

Now, can we create today a model combining Human Capital and Bioeconomics today?

In my humble opinion; yes, of course we can!; and we can do this engaging the help of a prehistoric specie form the Miocene Period, more than 10 million years old, and more than 7.5 million before man walked earth: The Agaves.

I have been working on the development of a socio-economic and geopolitical model with a large foundation that rests on an industry of eco-products and bio-commodities, and with the intention to foster a profitable business, but at the same time, acting from a sense of fiduciary duty, responsibility, and conscientiousness to Human Capital and to the fragile human race.

I faithfully believe that today in several parts of the globe exist unexploited gold mines of opportunity based on Bioeconomics, powered by Human Capital, and backed by the “know-how” principle.  I consider these the three magic ingredients for the healthy and prosperous development of regions, countries, and humans.

Paradigm

History has had an instrumental influence on the model of this project, specifically by the historic annals of the Magnoliophyta Agavaceae plant family, and the peninsula of Yucatán, México.  Ancient history, vast wealth, and frantic industry rendezvous in this fraction of the planet to give birth to the most powerfully economic golden era in the history of human kind. 

Like everything else this utopia evolved and near the 1850s, the fate of this industry changed radically.  Industry practices, science, technology and the omnipotent progress of commerce rendered vulnerable this trade in Yucatán, and before long brought the industry to its knees.  The wealth in Yucatán has been dormant since.  Today, the abundance of this remarkable plant genus and its treasures within is virtually limitless in the region, offering a plentiful source of raw material.

The industrial and economic business concept developed for the dormant riches of Yucatán is based on a series of revolutionary “green” bio-commodities, environmentally safe products; a unique line of products which is derived in part from the Magnoliophyta genus; but it is also the result of a long and exhaustive process where the local conditions were analyzed, problems and opportunities were recognized, and targets, goals and objectives identified.  There are specifically designed strategies to accomplish those goals and objectives, harmonized activities conceived to implement such strategies to finally, set foundation to evaluate progress.

Based on these fundamentals I see a solid opportunity to reactivate and invigorate the bio-industry, its abundant by-products, to create a solid economic base, and to establish a wide industrial foundation to serve a number of products; for the common benefit of the region and the human Capital that inhabit the zone.  A multidisciplinary commercial foundation can be established to support the systematic building of the Magnoliophyta Agavaceae industry in a determined region, aimed to surpass the economic growth of the past, and complemented with safety contrivances to prevent a possible economic and commercial failure.

In the case of Mexico, this vision of growth and development is mirrored in the Treaty of the States of the Gulf of México.  This international agreement was signed in 1995 by the governors of eleven combined States of México, and the United States, where Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas are on the U.S. side, and Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Yucatán on the Mexican side.  The treaty enlists leaders at the state level within a well defined sub-region of North America – the bordering states of the Gulf of México – with the objective of defining mutual interests, forming consensus, and building a political willpower to craft new programs in the areas of domestic protection and security, economic development, education, agriculture, and commerce.  With the determination of working together within the agreement, these bordering states have taken significant steps towards the goals of developing the commercial, tourism, and infrastructure progress under NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).

The "Bioeconomics-Human Capital" hypothesis is guided by a new natural anti-corrosive technology called Averter™.  This multifarious Averter™ is a novel hydro-colloidal compound assembled into a bio-base formulation.  This industry can bring economic development and the benefits of technology transfer to the area through the implementation of Bioeconomics  and its fusion with the element that is abundant in the region: Human Capital.  Then, we incorporate the little known secret of our “knowhow” little secret.

Modern Neoclassical Economics versus Ecological Economics

"Neoclassical Economics" its a catchy and preppy term used by modern self appointed avant-garde economists when referring to economic fields that spotlight calculation of prices, productivity, and proceeds distributions in the marketplace through the forces of supply and demand.  This simple principle (supply and demand) it is frequently arbitrated through a hypothesized capitalization of  transitive, complete, and continuous utilities or services by earnings-restricted people; and by the neoclassical microeconomic term "profit" by cost-constrained firms, in concordance with the "Rational Choice Theory". 

Neoclassical Economics presupposes non-abrasive economics, continuously symmetrically  balanced, where the trade spheres and its commodities are concurrent and coincident.  It also assumes that the trade negotiators and their sophisticated instruments have dominance of  knowledge.  Really?...  Neoclassical Economics are dead.

David Colander (November 1947 - present)

David C. Colander is the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College.  He is known for his study of the economics profession itself, and the sociology of economics. His books The Making of an Economist and its later edition, The Making of an Economist, Redux, have been called "essential reading for prospective graduate students".  He has authored over 35 books and 100 articles on a wide variety of subjects. On IDEAS, he is listed in the top 5% of authors in a number of categories.  He has expressed interest in complexity economics.  His latest work focuses on economic education, complexity, and the methodology appropriate to applied policy economics.
- Wikipedia,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Colander.

"The term “neoclassical economics” was born in 1900; in this paper I am proposing economist-assisted terminasia; by the powers vested in me as president of the History of Economics Society, I hereby declare the term neoclassical economics dead.  Let me be clear about what I am sentencing to death—it is not the content of neoclassical economics. As I will discuss below, it is difficult to determine what that content is, and even if I wanted to kill the content, I have no role in determining content.  The role of historians of thought is to record, not determine, content.  What I am declaring dead is the term."
- David Colander, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 22, Number 2, 2000.

However

On the other hand, "Ecological Economics" is a  a research strategy that encompasses different disciplinary boundaries, in other words; it is a transdisciplinarity research with objectives that set sights on the interdependence and coevolution  and balance between human economic enterprises and the conservation of natural ecosystems.  Now this, is real.     

Ecological and Environmental economics are different in their approach, but both boast sustainability, and we are committed to turn these into a cooperative and alloyable approach to accomplish our goals of integrating Bioeconomics and Human Capital.

BioHumaNomics (Rodrigo A. Guajardo, 19.. - and still vibrant)

I had the crazy idea of calling this multifarious and proactive concept of combining Bioeconomics, Human Capital, the levelheaded part of Neoclassical Economics and  the principles of Ecological Economics, and a selected potpourri of ideas from Biophysical Economics and the sound principles of Ecological Economy: "BioHumaNomics".  From another point of view, BioHumaNomics can be referred as an inspired new archetype of the down-to-earth art of complicated simplicity.

In BioHumaNomics, I put the same equilibrated weight and importance in the inputs, value, and harmony of earth resources, human work, and the interdependent economic bond of both.  Harmony of principles will lead to synchronization of mechanisms, therefore; leading to the plentiful benefits of generous and stable outputs.

In order to successfully implement and maintain these branches of learning, it must exist a stretch interrelationship and a realistic association between discipline, respect, care, dignity, responsibility, and profit; altogether fast spiraling ideas into the vortex of an anthropocentristic movement.

Discipline

In its original and most pure sense, discipline is the voluntary regulation of our behaviors, and furthermore; the methodical teachings provided to civilized people to educate them on the proper procedures for any activity which they will perform.

Self-discipline can be defined as the ability to motivate oneself to perform in spite of an uncomfortable or difficult situation; or the pressures of a harsh state of affairs.  Some of the positive and necessary traits coupled with self-discipline include willpower, hard work, and persistence.

Self-discipline is a mere product of the perseverance of willpower.  While willpower is seen as the vigor and the capacity to execute a task, self-discipline is the ability to make use of it consistently and routinely.  

In BioHumaNomics, discipline delivers a strong relationship between willpower as to the engine of power, and self-discipline as to the control of that engine.  Discipline builds the decisive pathway to success.

"The first and best victory is to conquer self."
- Plato

Respect

Respect gives a constructive and encouraging impression of regard and appreciation for an individual; it gives a person value.  Respect is underlined and endorsed by actions and conduct.  Unambiguous ethics and moral codes are of essential and elementary consequence to any culture.  

In BioHumaNomics, respect is one of the keystones were success is built upon, and were self-respect is the first stone.  Respect needs to be fostered with love and care because you cannot buy it in the store.

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
- Confucius

Care

To care or not to care, that is the dilemma.  Any organization, group, or individual prospers when they draw off and exploit the tremendous energy and magic that each of us harvest within: understanding, sympathy, compassion, and the uncanny ability to reach out to link with other people.

In BioHumaNomics this is terminally essential.  Nothing happens without people, and people are all different, therefore we have to care for each other, look after each other, understand each other, and tolerate each other as if we are doing it for ourselves.  Tolerance is not submission, but logical care.

“The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson

Dignity

Dignity is the best coin to pay for human conscience.  Any act without dignity towards a human being, is like a bitter victory without glory.  Dignity denotes respect and status, and commences with proper self-respect. 

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, an Italian philosopher of the Renaissance, granted dignity to ideas and to beings in his "Oration on the Dignity of Man".  He told about the dignity of the liberal arts, and his comments implied the dignity of philosophers.

In BioHumaNomics we must redraw the perception of the human's social and economic landscape, and make it the axis of all attention, and put some dignity on the Human Capital's capacity and its humanitarian perspective.

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle

Responsibility

Since we were able to understand words, we have being taught about responsibility, however, we still haven't learned anything serious about it yet.  Just look at the way we are organized as humans, and the responsibility we profess to our poor planet.  It is sickening.

In BioHumaNomics we ought to embrace and practice collective and universal responsibility.  This is a very weird and unfair concept because individuals like you and me are supposed to be held responsible for other people's actions by abiding, overlooking, or being indolent to them and their acts, all of these, without even collaborating in these actions in an active form; however, by going along with it, we are guilty as charged.

So, the only way to not pay for other's errors, is to get responsibly, collectible involved.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Sir Winston S. Churchill

Profit

Oh, my!  What a word!  There are extremely complicated explanations for this word in neoclassical microeconomic theory that range whilst from explicit and implicit opportunity costs, economic profit, abnormal profit , pure profit , supernormal, or excess profit, as the case may be monopoly or oligopoly profit; or even economic rent.  In Marxian economics would be the accumulation of capital.  And don't forget the externality costs.

BioHumaNomics pushes for a form more tilted to social profits.  These "profits" are attained through unambiguous and unselfish social entrepreneurship. The good part of social entrepreneurship is that financially nourish and fortifies individuals and conscientious organizations that bear and hold up important social values that benefit communities that have been disenfranchised emotionally, marginalized socially, or  disadvantaged economically.

Between you and me, in BioHumaNomics; profit is simply the benefit that Human Capital, resources, and the social economy obtain for their own good and advantage.           The sole focal point and center of attention of our work is not only on revenue generation, but also on the strengthening of humans, humanity, and the community itself.

No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect”
- Sir William Shakespeare

Something Else...

I don't want or wish for these principles to become an "economic theory".  I want it to be a hard-pedaling reality.  Theories just spin their wheels on the metaphysical and imaginative camps of endless byzantine discussions, and in deadly sessions of "theorizing" about the future.  This doesn't work because the future doesn't exist; only the present is real.  You can argue that, but I will not considered it into my BioHumaNomics concept.  So, there.

I fished from, and I learn much of these ideas from the International Red Cross' gifted slogan: "Help Can't Wait".  This are the words with the most common sense, and are the most realistic approach to human need that I have heard in a very long time.  So, we must respect and give dignity to humans and earth in any activity we carry out.

"We do not own Earth, sometimes we are just an aggravating section of her Biota."
- Rodrigo A. Guajardo

Here it is how it can be done.

First, let's review the initial inventory necessary to built a region to fulfill the implementation requirements of this inclusive hypothesis of the baptisma: "BioHumaNomics".

The necessary pillars to built and make this concept work, are simple and easy to achieve, however, all of them are necessary and achievable.  As an example, I will use Yucatán, Mexico, because we have a working industry there, and we have consolidated all the necessary elements to start the industry in a massive scale.

Raw material. - The actual production of raw material in rural southern Mexico to manufacture Averter™ today is about 170,000 metric tons per year.  This will yield approximately  75,000,000 liters of usable base fluid material to produce hydrocolloids.  In ten years there will be available about 670,000 metric tons per year, as a result of our reforestation program.  This will yield in the region of 300,000,000 liters of usable material to produce hydrocolloids.

Human Capital.  – There is a tremendous raw human capital available in rural southern Mexico.  This human capital is under fire because of the disastrous economy in the area that yields unemployment well above to 35%.  According to the results of the last Economic Census of the Government of Yucatán (2010), more than 28.53% of the population in this region has no income at all; 48% of the population earns less than US$1,000 a year, 20% of the population earns more than US$2,000 a year, 3% of the population earns between US$3,000 and US$5,000 a year, and a lucky 0.47% of the population earns more than US$5,000 a year.  These statistics are not a joke when the minimum wage in Mexico today is US$4.75 for a full day's work!  So, there is an incentive to work!

The production of hydrocolloids require about 1-2% of highly prepared workers, about 7% of technicians, being left at least 91% of the available work for unskilled workers.  Minimal learning is required to sustain a job, even if the population is illiterate, which is a positive detail because about 2.2% of the population have completed high school in Yucatán, and only 1.5% has a college level.

Technology for Production.  – There is no advanced technology available in Yucatán that is required to manufacture hydrocolloids; however, we can bring and implement the new technology necessary to produce an array of products that are colloidal-based.  In spite of the high technological level of this manufacturing equipment, this machinery is easy to install, cheap to maintain and replace, and relatively simple to operate.

Industrial Resources.  – There is a 50-year reforestation and cultivation program in place to reach by the year 2022 a production of raw material of 1.1 million tons per year.  This will yield an estimated 27,500,000 liters per year of usable material to produce hydrocolloids.  The required necessary Human Capital to sustain this growth is available.

Industrial Infrastructure.  – Southern Mexico possesses an appropriate basic infrastructure to support  economical growth to include international airports, commercial airports, an extensive network of roads and railroads, diversified transports, commercial ports, “maquiladoras”, “desfibradoras”, an international commerce system in place, strong government, a solid stock of wonderful Human Capital, direct access to U.S. markets and of course; lots of raw material.

Global market.  – The global market for the anti corrosive Averter™ is more than 50 times bigger than the market in the United States.  The 2001 report on corrosion costs in the United States has drawn worldwide interest in nearly every industry.  Only reported corrosion costs in the U.S. industry and government agencies was calculated at $276 billion per year, this according to the study by CC Technologies for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).  This is reason enough for many production and manufacturing companies, transportation organizations, public utilities, infrastructure developers, and government departments to take a closer look at where all this money goes.  So there is an ample and active concurrent market.

The “know-how”.  This is an important element and another difficult and sticky area because of intellectual property implications, intangible assets issues, and because it is also an important factor in the progression into technology transfer in national and international environments.  Also, you have to consider elements such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights when conveying technology to someone else because all of this independently or combined, are a powerful and tangible economic asset.  The good news is that this technology exists and it is proven.  This technology can champion the development and implementation of this project, and the swift manufacturing of cheap, transferable, safe, and fully biodegradable colloidal commodities through this concept of BioHumaNomics.

This technology (the Averter™) and the development of the project did encompassed more than 15 years of R&D, effort, trials, ingenuity, investment, patience, endurance, tryouts, and most important of all, an unbelievable amount of imagination.

The chief purpose at the heart of BioHumaNomics, is to seek socio-economic development  and prosperity for the common benefit of many.



Preliminary Steps and Groundwork to Determine the Feasibility of Implementing and Developing the Averter™ Project in a Potential Environment

Preface

The steps reviewed below are performed in a sequential and sometimes, in a parallel mode depending of the availability, electability, capacity of sustainable inventory, and legal access to the capabilities of a region.  After that these initials steps have been complete, a determination will be done on if the region can support the project in a successfully and sustainable way.   

Scoping out the potential of the region or the convergence of regions

One of the early preliminary steps is to identify if the target area possesses the agricultural capability to sustain the growth and sustainable multiplication of several Agavaceae species.  The fact that the target area has some Agavaceae species as native stock, it does not necessarily means that other similar species will survive.  In order to measure survival perils and to determine plant subsistence; ground mechanics has to be performed to include ground analysis, salinity levels, acidity concentration, biota diversification, humidity amounts, temperature differentials, weather fluctuations, insect control, plants pests and diseases exposure, foreign contaminants; and to research for any conflicting links between micro aggregate formation, soil biota, biota transfer, soil organic matter dynamics, and soil tolerance.  These studies has to be made as well in plantation's convergence regions to include soil biotic activity, soil organic matter decomposition and stabilization, and soil aggregate dynamics.

Testing the viability of the echelon in the region

Selective plantation and industrial utilization are done by voluntary and managed contribution to the source of raw materials needed for the manufacturing of the Averter™.   This has the advantage to generate a continuum of agricultural cycles to ensure the provision of raw material.  However in a suburban zone,  or to the echelon of a region or a territory, the voluntary contribution specific to the source of raw material can prove to be insufficient, considering the volumes of product to be manufactured.  So, in selecting an agricultural zone, we must include the echelon of surrounding lands as a potential part of the plantations to provide growth and sustainability in the future, and to secure safe and productive soil turnaround, to maximize soil productivity to support a region's redundant viability strategy.  The goal of our long-term focuses in work that strengthens and safeguards the region’s viability and sustainability for the long term, rather than confine our efforts to short-term goals.

Assessment of the region's idiosyncrasy and government

Local (or national) idiosyncrasy is of utmost and paramount importance, and also a critical component for success in the Age of Globalization; this is because idiosyncrasy alone is responsible for the generation of new paradigms.  At the end, the innate idiosyncrasy of a human group will (or will not) embrace this industry.  Political idiosyncrasy, social idiosyncrasy, and government idiosyncrasy live always together in an explosive and unstable environment; no matter how "civilized" is a country or a region, however, there are some factors that are common to them, and are also items that bring stability and progress; such as the creation of fairly paid jobs, proactive social development, the creation of vertical markets, and the implementation of independent economies of scale.  If the idiosyncrasy and the government of a region embraces this project, the chances of long-term success are excellent.

Demographics, Economy Data, Human Capital and Ethnolinguistics

Although we know that Morocco possesses a demographic and an economic census data which breaks roughly into these areas: Population, Languages, Status of women, Main populated areas, Education, Vital Statistics, Ethnic groups, Religions, and Literacy; the specifics on a determined region potentially apt for our industry, especially regarding its stock in Human Capital and skill sets, are unknown for us now.   We have to create an inventory of items such as age range, income range, number of supporting business by type and category, industry class and their grouping, and legal and social organization in the geographic area, and that is compatible with our category of business.  Ethnolinguistics is important not only for communication, but because they are a close  relationship between language and culture, and the way different ethnic groups perceive the world, and it is a natural combination between ethnology and linguistics.  Ethnolinguistics refers to the way of life of an entire community, including all the characteristics which distinguish one community from another.  Those characteristics make the cultural aspects of a community or a society.

Evaluation on the possible implementation of Bioeconomics

Since the science of Bioeconomics deals with the economics of living resources exploitation and population dynamics, this influences greatly the dynamics of economic systems.  For these reasons, the coexistence and coordination of Human Capital and renewable resources are critical for the success of this industry.  A detailed knowledge of the dynamics governing these factors and its longevity, are a chief concern for the stability and progress of the industry; also it is important the viability of implanting Bioeconomics in a new region. 

Invasive species

"Invasive species", "Non-native species", or "Invasive Exotics" plants or animals that normally  affect adversely the bioregions they invade, are coined terms used to depict certain flora and fauna.  These foreign species, who disrupt a biota by taking over imposing a dominant and forced colonization, propagate themselves until they exercise complete hegemony in a region, by disrupting the region's natural controls by forming a "phytocoenosis" -or a community of plant species-, restricted and contained to a designated biogeographical area.  Collected data on risks and effects posed by invasive species on other environments have been quantified and re-quantified many times by experts, and nothing good has ever come out of these arbitrary conclusions.  Even the name of this singularity  has been tainted as mischievous sprite with poor, bad, and with terminology and titles without imagination and of undeserved level.  In any case, we must responsible assess the potential and possible impact of our plants into the new environment.

Assessment of skills set and audits of strengths

This is practically our labor force inventory and its skill set needed for this new industry.  Like any new industry, the skill set might not be available, and the labor force must be properly trained on a specific skill.  The velocity and absorption capacity of the new skill will depend directly on the strength (capacity to learn) of the labor force, and in its education level.  Our ability to compare the current skills set within the targeted region  with its future needs, and our capacity to create a skills development map in its absence; will be challenging to say the least.  Therefore, training and development of personnel are our most strategic imperatives to ensure we keep a competitive edge, in the local and global market.  This in itself can put a strain on available resources, whilst moving focus away from our project core business activities.

Assessment of public industrial infrastructure

An  empirical investigation of the correlates of industrial development in an target area of  backward economy, can reveal interesting facts.  Although the individual items of infrastructure contribute a lot to industrial development, a sustainable industrial development rests in the industrial infrastructure as a whole.  The overall  contribution of infrastructure to industrial development establishes a highly significant coefficient of composite indices of infrastructure variables such as uneven levels of proficiency or coverage of the infrastructure as a whole.  We have to consider the cost associated with the need for implementation of new infrastructure; or the improving of the existent industrial infrastructural facilities to a large extent to accommodate for the desired level of industrial development.  Appropriated industrial infrastructure of services and facilities with a basic physical and organizational configuration are necessary for the operation of our enterprise, and for the industrial economics to function.

Assessment of environmental impact

We must complete a thorough environmental impact assessment to evaluate the possible positive or negative impacts that our project may have on the environment, and on the environmental, social and economic aspects of the region.  The sole purpose of the assessment, is to make certain that decision consider the ensuing environmental impacts when deciding whether to proceed with our project, or not.  As well as noticeable direct effects, industrial developments cause a whole host of indirect effects through consumption of goods and services, production of building materials, use of equipment and machinery, and the additional land use for other various activities related to manufacturing and industrial services.  The indirect effects of industrial development is frequently an order of magnitude higher than the direct effects assessed.  Industrial responsibility with the environment is of utmost importance.

Assessment of social impact and economies of scale

In industrial development, social impact refers to how our organization's actions might affect the surrounding community.  Social impacts can affect areas such as health and community.  We must consider the three basic rules of social impact: The first rule is that social impact is the result of social forces, including the strength of the source of impact, the immediacy of the event, and the number of sources exerting the impact.  The second rule is the psychosocial rule that says the amount of impact tends to increase as the number of sources increases.  The third rule is that the number of targets also affects social impact. The more targets of impact that exist, the less impact each individual target feels.  In microeconomics, economies of scale refers to the cost advantages that our enterprise obtains due to its expansion.  There are factors that will cause our average cost per unit to fall as the scale of output is increased.  This affects the local economy as much as it will do to our industry.  In other words, we must do things efficiently to benefit the community, and ourselves.

Assessment of sustainability and size of internal market

For our industry, sustainability is the capacity to endure over time providing long-term jobs, industrial output of standard quality, and renewable resources to sustain growth and stability.  For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship, the responsible management of resource use.  We don't go into a region to exploit it, but to create industry, economy, and social development.  The size of the market is the greatest index of sustainability.

Assessment of region's stance in world commerce and trade information

The region's connectivity to world commerce is mapped out by its capacity to trade.  At the center of this paradigm is the concept of Globalization.  Globalization is an umbrella term and has many dimensions that relate to every fields in economics and social development of a region.  In order for a region to participate in globalization, it must have strong pillars to sustain economics (related to globalization in trade, money, corporations, banking, capital), political (science, governance, wars, peace, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and regimes), sociology (communities, conflict, classes, nations, agreements), psychology (individuals as subjects and objects of global action), anthropology (cultures overlapping, adapting, clashing, merging), communications (information as knowledge and tools such as the internet), and geography (everything, provided can be anchored in a determined space). 
The region must sustain these elements to support our industry.

Time-scale

This refers to how long it will take to implement the Averter™ industry into a region.  Calendar time is not the same as Business time scale.  Many make the mistake of setting dates to accomplish industrial business goals, instead of allowing the necessary time for an industry to mature into a business; where Calendar time equals to fractal behavior, and Business time equals to sequential behavior.  The time-scale for an industry varies according to the complexity of the industry itself.  The time-scale then, will be the timely co-integration of the efficiency of the industry and the market exchange platform.  The calendar of industrial development can be set in calendar time, however; the variable to this calendar will be: adjustment.

Viability of implementing a web-based business intelligence tool

Our business intelligence technology gives our business the ability to track, understand, correct, and manage information within our manufacturing facilities, and the other components of our diversified  organization.  This is a valuable tool for me, and possess an strategic role in the way we tap into the priceless data that will be stored in our operational systems.  In order for this system to work properly, our organization must be able to fully benefit from a global, stable, and ready-access cross-functional analysis of information.  The standardization of a business intelligence tool provides strong ROI by reducing purchase, implementation, distribution, development, and training costs. 

The target area must have a strong and scalable platform to implement, manage, and develop a fully integrated web-based business intelligent system.

Determination

When all factors above have been properly studied and analyzed, and its scrutiny has yielded positive results, and these results provide room for maneuvering, trial and error, and for the implementation of checks and balances, a determination on if the target area is apposite for this project can only then be made. 

Preparation

Then, the stage of preparation will be the first business phase for our technology to be implemented into the target area. 




Reference

The Bellona Foundation is funding "The Sahara Forest Project", a project betting to bring into being productive systems that imitate nature and its efficiency.   They are attempting to create an ecosystem capable of producing electricity, food, biofuel, water, and jobs.

They are planning to use two proven technologies: Seawater Greenhouses, and Concentrated Solar Power.  Two technologies highly fragile, expensive to maintain, and hardly transferable due to its level of technology.

The first run of these technologies will be in Aqaba, Jordan; in a 20-hectar site plus a corridor to bring water from the Red Sea.  They estimate the cost of or about US$25,000,000.  This plan will start being executed in 2012, to hopefully be operational by the end of 2015.

They also have started testing this system in Qatar with hopes that they can implemented in the Sahara Desert within the next few decades.  Moreover, efforts are being invested in a pilot plant of one-hectare in Doha, Qatar.  However, this project does not resolve the problem of badlands.

Some think that this is too much, too soon, too brittle, too expensive.  Time will tell if this project is sustainable and economically productive, if the money doesn't run out.

In the meantime, we can prove the feasibility of our tenet through a Proof of Concept, we can establish the achievability of the project, we can set standards, we can ascertain self-sufficiency, and provide a solution; and all of this faster, cheaper, and more efficiently.

Conclusion

The concept of BioHumaNomics is a realistic, tangible, and realizable enterprise that can come efficiently and successfully to the rescue of a region in economic disarray, with deficient or non-existing of industry, with a severe lack of economic opportunities, or with a non-competitive agricultural resources.  This project can rescue a region without industry or hope, and catapult it to progress, economic bonanza, industry sustainability, pecuniary opportunities, and more important of all, will convey and deliver dignity to the most precious gem of all: the Human Capital.


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