Elsevier

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volume 16, Issue 5, October 2012, Pages 489-490
Sleep Medicine Reviews

Letter to the Editor
An open letter to the sleep and circadian rhythms community: Presidents' viewpoints of the World Sleep Federation (WSF)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2012.06.005Get rights and content

Section snippets

Immediate past President's viewpoint

The Scottish polymath, Sir Patrick Geddes who, amongst other things, was a pioneer sexologist, urban planner of places like North Tel Aviv and Bombay and an early environmentalist coined the phrase “Think Global, Act Local”.1 His concepts emphasized the importance of local “grassroots” activities needing to consider larger or even global impacts of their actions. However even Geddes would have not foreseen the globalized Internet driven world, with rapid communications and cheap travel across

Current President's viewpoint

No matter what country we reside in, we have a personal and national responsibility to be good neighbors and citizens of the world. Increased technology and social networking has had the positive effect of minimizing international barriers and shrinking our world, but there continues to be crises that impact and test our global population, including natural disasters such as the earthquakes in Japan, Chile, and Haiti and man-made problems such as the recession and global warming. History and

References (3)

  • Meller H. Patrick Geddes

    Social evolutionist and city planner

    (1990)
There are more references available in the full text version of this article.

Cited by (0)

View full text