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Biodiesel Plants
No full textBiodiesel Plants - Fueling the Sustainable Outlooks provides an approach to the crucial role biodiesel plants play in transitioning to a society less dependent on fossil fuels. Each chapter unveils a unique lens on the biodiesel production process, from the careful selection of feedstocks to the innovative technologies that are reshaping the industry’s future. With a focus on sustainability, it highlights technological advancements that reduce the environmental impacts of biodiesel production while promoting a greener, more resilient economy. Aimed at scientists, engineers, policymakers, and all those who envision a cleaner, more sustainable tomorrow, it offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to understand the future of renewable energy and its positive impact on the environment
Sosiaalityö ja sote-integraatio
No full textThe integration of healthcare and social welfare services has been seen as a solution to many problems in the service system both in Finland and globally. Integration is sought to achieve both cost efficiency and to meet the service needs of clients requiring multiprofessional cooperation. This edited volume examines the transformation of healthcare and social welfare services specifically from the perspective of social work.
The research reported in the book dates to the pre-implementation phase of the healthcare and social welfare reform, which prepared for the transition of healthcare and social welfare services to be organized by the new wellbeing services counties. In this preparation, integration, multiprofessional work, and responding to complex client situations were key challenges.
The book's perspective on these challenges is revealed through the grassroots activities of healthcare and social welfare professionals and the encounters between clients and professionals. This distinguishes the book from previous research on the ongoing service integration, which has focused more on structural and administrative issues
International Organizations and the Cold War
No full textThe post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and a political practice. This open access volume explores how international organizations affected the evolution and nature of Cold War rivalries, and how they in turn were shaped by them. In seeking to understand the role that international organizations have played as sites of confrontation, this volume also highlights their role as spaces for mediation and negotiation, particularly for middle-size powers and colonized or newly decolonized countries. Through multiple perspectives, based on a diverse array of historical sources, the authors collectively explore how international organizations were able to bridge and move beyond the Cold War divide by promoting common causes and shaping common scientific knowledge, communities and practices. Rather than focusing exclusively on western-dominated institutions within the UN system which have received the most scholarly attention to date, International Organizations and the Cold War highlights the role of lesser-known groups such as the Paris-based International Child Center, the Prague-based International Union of Students and historical actors such as Soviet public health experts and Chinese development specialists. In doing so, it asks new questions about the role of international organizations in securing peace and security across the modern world, and their role as negotiator in times of tension and crisis. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Chapter 8 Acquaintance Principle, imagination, and mental imagery
No full textThis volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination. The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed unique and irreplaceable role of experience in our lives. However, new arguments in various philosophical debates suggest that there is a need to examine how both areas of research interrelate and can enrich one another. The chapters in this volume examine whether the traditional accounts of experience and imagination need to be challenged. They are divided into thematic sections that discuss epistemological, ontological, normative, phenomenological, and intersubjective questions related to experience and imagination. Imagination and Experience is an essential resource for scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of psychology
Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel
No full textThis Element describes a data analysis of a collection of Mudie's catalogues spanning eighty years, in order to reassess understandings of the library's role in the nineteenth-century publishing industry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Chimica, società e ambiente
No full textIn July 2021, the European Commission presented the new package of measures called Fit For 55 with which the EU intends to increase the decarbonisation objectives to 2030, aiming for a reduction of -55% of CO2 emissions. This contribution aims to estimate the investment needs necessary for Italy in order to achieve the 2030 decarbonisation objectives set by the Fit For 55 package. The overall direct investment requirement to achieve the 2030 decarbonisation objectives is equal to 1.120,7 billion of euros. Given this significant flow of investments, economic benefits could arise for the community, deriving from the positive effects on the state budget in terms of greater revenues, estimated at approximately 541 billions of euros, to which are added benefits in terms of reduction in consumption of energy estimated at approximately 28 billions of euros and the benefits deriving from the avoided cost of CO2 estimated at approximately 36 billions of euros
The Québec-United States Relationship
No full textQuébec’s engagement with the United States is the most significant and consequential point of interaction amongst all its international activities. This new, edited book volume seeks to explore the many ways in which Quebec engages with the United States, including political exchange, border issues, trade, business and investment, transportation, immigration, cultural links and identity, the role of energy transmission and natural resources, and environmental considerations. As a sub-national actor pursuing a wide range of paradiplomatic bilateral and multilateral initiatives directly involving the U.S., our book both explores and explains what, when, why and how Québec has chosen to engage the United States while examining the fundamental issues that lie at the heart of the relationship. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary in focus, this edited collection of essays, titled The Québec-United States Relationship: Political, Security, Economic, Environmental and Cultural Dynamics, features the work of scholars who think deeply about Quebec-U.S. relations. Each contribution considers contemporary policy relevant issues; in so doing, this collection examines and emphasizes the background, scope, and impacts of policy decisions. This is an open access book
Embedding Resilience in the Built Environment Using the EU Taxonomy
No full textTaxonomy is the common name for an EU regulation that supports companies in sustainable environmental and climate action (Regulation [EU] No. 2020/852). It is a classification tool designed for investors, companies, and financial institutions to define the environmental impact of business activities and the requirements that organisations must meet to be considered as sustainable.
The aim of this book is to examine the EU taxonomy from the built environment perspective and the ways in which it can be used to build resilience in real estate. It presents the issues, hot points, and possible choices from the designers, construction consultants, and investing bodies' points of view, those who must set forth initial conditions, which should later become the keystones for greener developments. It brings together the expertise of a unique team of both researchers and professionals and presents a methodology, case studies, and solutions which together comprise a novel understanding of the taxonomy’s influence on the pre-construction phase. The book:
• describes the role of the built environment within sustainable development and how real estate can be used to build resilience with the use of taxonomy.
• describes the characteristics of resilient environmentally friendly cities in the future.
• proposes a roadmap to demonstrate urban policies that promote decarbonisation; and
•enables investors to compare their products, operations, and strategies in terms of sustainability.
Overall, this book is essential reading for decision-makers in the public and private sectors, urban developers, space and spatial designers, architects, planners, community stakeholders, and real estate investors.
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
A Cultural History of Waste Disposal
No full textThis book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments.
New York, Toronto, and Tel Aviv are currently redeveloping giant landfills into parks to much fanfare. The park redevelopments may be seen as an attempt to erase or assuage the decades of problematic waste-disposal policy that led to the creation of such large landfills. Booster rhetoric underscores this point, such as promoting how the parks will be a “green lung” for the city. This book contextualizes these redevelopments by offering a historical analysis, providing a greater understanding of the past, current, and future potential issues. It goes on to analyze the language and media coverage surrounding former waste sites becoming park redevelopments, including how cities use art to promote their image and gain cultural relevance. By engaging with both the works of waste historians and literature on waste and discard studies, the book provides theoretical models for analyzing the role of power in municipal systems, as well as human and ecological impacts on waste. It concludes with an analysis of the features necessary for landfill parks to be successful.
This book will be useful for scholars, researchers, and academics studying waste studies, the environment, cities, and sustainable development, as well as for policymakers and environmental/eco artists
Defeating Disinformation
No full textConsiders balancing free speech and containing dangerous online content to reduce risks of digital platforms during elections, pandemics or everyday social interactions. Offers an interdisciplinary approach with insights from different geographies and parallel challenges of managing global phenomena with national policies and regulations