The technological progress has created global interdependencies and pressures embracing all domains of human activity – society, economy and the environment, and affecting both their physical and mental dimensions.
Second, the research team worked to model the overall global natural gas sociotechnical enterprise and its future growth options to understand the regional versus global interdependencies and their likely effect on the changing natural gas landscape.
SARS very vividly illustrated global interdependencies, as the disease spread rapidly via international traffic routes (15).
Nonetheless, while highlighting the interconnections between diverse disease drivers, the global interdependencies inherent to these examples will also be evident.
Albeit the simplest models possible, interaction graphs allow the identification of important network properties such as signaling paths, feedback loops, or global interdependencies.
In a global health context, the SARS pandemic in 2003 can be interpreted as such a focussing event because it changed the public and political understanding of global interdependencies with a sense of urgency.
For example, the feedback loops, signaling paths and global interdependencies in a logical model are equivalent to the ones of the interaction graph from which the logical model was constructed.
We will describe applications of interaction graphs to cellular signaling networks such as the identification of signaling pathways and feedback loops, and the analysis of global interdependencies useful to check the consistency of experimental data with a given network structure.
If, as Rawls [73] has persuasively argued, principles of justice are to regulate the most important institutions of society, and if society itself has gone global (with worldwide interdependencies intervening into all aspects of life and a constantly growing body of institutions put in place that affects all of humanity), then so must justice [15, 80].
