Geopathic Stress: A Threat to the Built Environment

This paper deals with the geotechnical investigation of Geopathic Stress Zone. The energy from the earth at specific locations that have the ability to change the normal functioning of human system is called Geopathic Stress. In Structures, soil is an important component; change in Geotechnical Properties of the soil affects the stability of the structure. Experimental investigations on soil at Geopathic Stress Zone reveal that there is change in the properties of soil, due to the energies emitted by the earth. Investigations carried out by the researchers at mysterious Geopathic stress zones on Mumbai-Pune expressway has confirmed accidents occur due to existence of Geopathic stress, but there is no geotechnical investigations carried out on such locations. This paper aims at finding out the change in soil properties due to presence of Geopathic Stress Zone. The conclusions are justified by carrying out different tests on soil such as, “determination of water-content, specific grav...

Bio-Architect Mayank Barjatya works with geopathy and geobiology as a medium to learn from nature. He has been instrumental in analytical earth assessment and its impact on human health and brain connections. He proposes the model and method by which detailed geobiological study can provide us information to derive the parameters for sustainable urban planning, construction & location of buildings, underground structures, and services that actually support and promote human health and well-being.

Since the dawn of civilisation organisms have been subject to evolutionary pressure from the environment. The term “stress” and “stressors” are part of our everyday vocabulary. “Stress is an unavoidable part of life” and is one of the most frequently researched issues within environmental psychology. One way to understand the relationship between the environment and human behaviour is to analyse environmental conditions that are capable of interfering with optimal human functioning. In this paper we will make an attempt to establish that the concept of stress has been used to specify environmental characteristic that may lead to physiological or psychological discomfort. We will also provide the necessary information to understand the construct of stress. With the help of some selected environmental stressors. We will evaluate the affect of those stressors on the individual. Basically here we will be concerned with some stressors associated with our increasingly complex urban society. Which is inclusive of stressors like overcrowding, urban decay, educational deterioration, inadequate health services, crime, racial discrimination and many more, such environmental factors as air, water and noise pollutions can also be considered as stressors because many people view them as a threat or potential source of harm.. At last, there will be an attempt with regards to the strategies to manage environmental stressors.

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019

Influence of secondary geodynamic factors on medical and biological safety of population is considered. Among these factors are electromagnetic and infrasound fields caused by “slow” geodynamic nature catastrophes discussed. Some features and causes of “slow catastrophes”, as well as the specifics of infrasonic oscillations are described. The hypothesis about the influence of infrasound field on the incidence of cancer diseases considered. The possibility of application of the proposed research methods in the planning of development and operation of modern settlements.

The Academic Research Community Publication, 2018

Bio-Architect Mayank Barjatya works with geopathy and geobiology as a medium to learn from nature. He has been instrumental in analytical Earth assessment and its impact on human health and brain connections. He proposes the model and method by which detailed geobiological study can provide us information to derive the parameters for sustainable urban planning, construction & location of buildings, underground structures, and services that actually support and promote human health and well-being. Humans have always been sensitive to certain places or areas where we do not sleep well, fall ill easily, or where our performance is lower. Dowsers and geo-biologists termed such zones as biological stress zones. The knowledge of this influence of the Earth (geos) on living beings (bios) is called Geobiology. Alternately the study of disease (pathos) caused by Earth (geos) is called Geopathy. This has also been called Geomancy in the past, with the suffix 'mancy' referring to the process of divination based on the Earth. 1.2. Natural Vibrations and the Human Body The world sees the interaction of humans with their space with a specific eye. Vibration is the key element that affects each life-form. Under Earth elements includes grid lines, meridians, water streams, lakes, Earth cracks, sha-streams, earth cavities and also earth0sky chimneys. All the Earth elements are foreign to human energies and their wavelengths do not match with human wellbeing. Multiple cultures and experts have proposed the model of the human being as an antenna, legs connected to the negative pole of the strata, and head connected to the positive pole of the cosmos. The human body is thus continuously a part of perennial energy exchange between the poles. This energy nourishes and sustains the human body. Though we are not consciously aware of this process, our body does participate in it. It receives and stores this energy and information in its cells, whereon it goes on to influence the day to day workings of a human being. Resonance is the science of communication when two bodies or objects have similar wavelengths and frequencies irrespective of this location or distance. Morphogenetic field theory is based on this knowledge as stated by Rupert Sheldrake. Following the same process of resonance, Earth and human communicates through the medium of the under Earth elements which is mainly 70% water, common in both.

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Population growth in cities, the need to expand the living space requires of rational use of territories within the existing boundaries of the city. The necessity of compliance with the functional zones of the city is shown on the example of a representative part of Kiev, that should be performed taking into account engineering-geological features of the territory. It is necessary to comply with the underlying zones in the underground space to ensure the bearing capacity of the soil mass. The changes in soil bases are defined as a result of changes in the stress-strain state under the construction, development of underground space, changes of soils water content as the result of soaking from the surface, formation of "perched water", raising the groundwater level. The vibration analysis of high-rise building -the main library building is made from the dynamic loads that arise during the movement of the vehicle, taking into account the work of the pile foundation as a rigid body relative to the longitudinal axis, which passes through the center of the building at the level of the cap of piles.

A bstract: Environments shape health and well-being, yet little research has investigated how different real-world environmental settings influence the well-known determinant of health known as stress. Using a cross-over experimental design; this pilot study investigated the effect of four urban environments on physiological and psychological stress measures. Participants (N = 15) were exposed on separate days to one of the four settings for 20 min. These settings were designated as Very Natural; Mostly Natural; Mostly Built and Very Built. Visitation order to the four settings was individually randomized. Salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase; as well as self-report measures of stress; were collected before and after exposure to each setting. Gender was included as a variable in analysis; and additional data about environmental self-identity, pre-existing stress, and perceived restorativeness of settings were collected as measures of covariance. Differences between environmental settings showed greater benefit from exposure to natural settings relative to built settings; as measured by pre-to-post changes in salivary amylase and self-reported stress; differences were more significant for females than for males. Inclusion of covariates in a regression analysis demonstrated significant predictive value of perceived restorativeness on these stress measures, suggesting some potential level of mediation. These data suggest that exposure to natural environments may warrant further investigation as a health promotion method for reducing stress.

Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment

The built environment (BE) affects ecosystems, ecosystem services and human health and well being. While, formally, the BE ranges from the smallest hut to the largest city, this chapter focuses upon the health effects of urban areas, which increasingly are the preferred human habitat. Urban areas have many attractive and beneficial influences to human well-being. But at the same time, many effects of urban areas are harmful to well-being, and many are not even recognized as such. Most publications about these topics have described the effects of the BE separately, on either ecosystems or on human health. The interconnectivity between these two effects relative to BE is rarely studied. This paper focuses on the mutual influence and interactions between three related aspects of the BE which can impact ecosystems and human health: transportation, land use, and life style. It also explores some of the links between the BE, human health, and human security. Transportation, especially when based on systems of private cars burning fossil fuels, is often the most important cause of air pollution in both developed and developing countries. Air pollution has many adverse health effects, including asthma and cardiovascular disease. Transport systems based largely on the use of private cars are a major contributor to global warming and to ecosystem degradation. This occurs directly, as the operation of vehicles releases greenhouse gases causing global climate change which is associated with altered temperature and rainfall patterns and rising sea levels. Warmer ocean temperatures are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. These effects can also harm cold water fisheries, and otherwise degrade aquatic habitats. The heat-retaining nature of road surfaces and many buildings, together with the loss of vegetation, contributes to "heat islands" sometimes exacerbated by particulate-dense air pollution. Heat islands may create a double burden of pollution as people respond reactively, for example with air conditioning, rather than within urban redesign, such as exchanging black for green surfaces, fewer roads and more rooftop gardens. Transportation is therefore having an impact on ecohealth as well as human health, and these are interconnected.

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The "Geotechnologies and the Environment" series is intended to provide specialists in the geotechnologies and academics who utilize these technologies, with an opportunity to share novel approaches, present interesting (sometimes counter-intuitive) case studies, and most importantly to situate GIS, remote sensing, GPS, the internet, new technologies, and methodological advances in a real world context. In doing so, the books in the series will be inherently applied and reflect the rich variety of research performed by geographers and allied professionals. Beyond the applied nature of many of the papers and individual contributions, the series interrogates the dynamic relationship between nature and society. For this reason, many contributors focus on human-environment interactions. The series are not limited to an interpretation of the environment as nature per se. Rather, the series "places" people and social forces in context and thus explore the many sociospatial environments humans construct for themselves as they settle the landscape. Consequently, contributions will use geotechnologies to examine both urban and rural landscapes.

The link between the spread of diseases and the geographical environment has been made by scientists since a long time. Every element has an entire spectrum of possible effects on a community. One of the main reasons of studying the environment is the understanding of the way the environment conditions influence the human health and the identification of the modalities through which the negative effects of some external factors on this universal good of the society can be reduced. The environmental factors are in a permanent relationship with the human body and influences significantly the health status. Among these factors, the city is present as a social structure and it occurs more strikingly in the public health, in the mental and conceptual environment of humans. In many countries, the appearance of urban explosion induced major problems in the organization of space and quality of life. Geography, with the help of its medical branch and through the way of mental and conceptual approaching, represents an interdisciplinary and complex way to deal with the necessity of explaining the human health damage due to the excess or deficiency of certain chemicals or to some complex environmental problems. In the beginning of the 21st century, geographical environment and global health are issues of major concern. Environmental problems are more and more taken into account at a global scale and promoting understanding of some of the planetary problems and adopting favorable behaviors concerning the environment represent simultaneously the approach of the addressed theme. The complex connections between the elements of the geographical environment, urban environment in relation to medical geography and environmental psychology are analyzed under the form of case studies. The pluridisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity represent the methodological basis applied to the relationship between the geographical environment and global health.

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1985