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The word “anthroposphere” has more and more been used by scientists to emphasize the impact of human existence in the new geological era. The accelerated demographic increase, technical advances and industrialization have reached a state in which the relations of human enterprises, the global environment of the world and the surroundings have a devastating effect on potential social changes at local level. The lack of natural capital, arable and inhabitable property, potable water and lifethreats in general, are increasingly impacting civilization-culminating in civil instability and migration. Human environmental emissions are widely accepted to adversely affect the earth’s geology and biosphere itself, thereby affecting the same living conditions which enable human civilization to be promoted in various ways, including global climate change. Regions and towns are not merely at danger, but are also a fact for millions. Environmental contamination, clean water and land, significant damage to the safety, well-being and livelihoods of current and future generations are a hazard. A global catastrophically danger must be taken seriously at all stages of society’s policy-making in the absence of sustainable social growth.

Earth structure and individual behavior on the functionalities of health organizations. It is therefore clear that the relation between sustainable growth and resilience is powerful and that the two concepts are essentially similar from two separate viewpoints, see also Figure 1.2.

Figure 1.2 Societal principle of resilience and sustainability.