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The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Sustainability
No full textThis state-of-the-art handbook provides a comprehensive review of recent research and academic thought on the relationship between marketing and sustainability. It combines a ‘micro-marketing’ approach considering how to market more sustainable goods and services, with a more critical perspective considering the implications of our marketing systems for the future of the planet and humankind. It also balances a traditional socio-economic perspective on marketing with a physical systems perspective considering how the consequences of our consumption and production systems play out over time and space. Bringing together a range of leading international experts from more than a dozen countries, this unique collection addresses both the environmental side of the sustainability agenda, through topics such as product development, packaging and circular economy initiatives, and its social side through topics such as fair trade marketing, bottom-of-the-pyramid initiatives and marketing ethics. A range of key market contexts are discussed including food, mobility, tourism, luxury consumption and sports along with important developments in the field around social marketing, sustainable lifestyles, new information technologies and the need for better marketing of sustainability. Exploring how marketing can meet the challenge of the transition towards a more sustainable economy and a fairer society, this unique volume will be welcomed by researchers, students and practitioners from a variety of fields including marketing, business ethics, sociology and environmental studies. Chapter 23 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license
Executive Orders
No full textAfter the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a group of poets, artists, and activists conceived of a project wherein they could respond to the sudden and seemingly relentless barrage of Trump’s dystopian executive orders with a series of their own orders. The project, titled “Executive Orders,” was envisioned as a collaborative, freeform, “emergency” prose poem that would generate real-time responses to current events and the emerging American political landscape. The result was a poetic catalog of the people’s executive orders—orders that are at turns serious, absurd, satirical, philosophical, critical, utopian, and so on. Executive Orders began as one community’s effort to cope with and respond to the tidal wave of reactionary policies enacted or proclaimed during the years of Trump’s first administration. As an index of historical happenings that charts events in rough chronological order (including the Muslim-country travel ban, Black Lives Matter protests, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, the youth climate march, the January 6th riot at the US Capitol, and many other events), it stands as a documentary record of this historical period from the perspective of artists, writers, leftists, progressives, and other contributors, many of them anonymous. Executive Orders is also an experiment in crowdsourced collaborative making that tells a story about the ways we can—and can’t—come together to form a collective that could have a voice in political deliberations
The New Nature of Stations
No full textSymbols and legacies of a prestigious past, railway stations and their neighbourhoods are now the focus of strategies for adapting to global change. The book explores the various technical processes involved in this approach (reuse of building materials for renovation, environmental and landscape integration, energy transformations, etc.) and shows how these processes link railway regeneration to territorial development. The twenty-one experts assembled in this book deploy critical approaches and international perspectives to think of railway stations as transdisciplinary border objects where naturalistic, architectural and political perspectives can be articulated. As such, the book will enlighten users, as well as residents and citizens, on the processes of socio-technical transitions underway, as much as it will help them question the costs, effects and ends of the eco-modernization of our public goods and services. French publication: La nouvelle nature des gares, N. Baron,N. Le Bot, P. Detavernier, ISBN 978-2-37924-458-2, GéoTraverses, 202
Petrified
No full textA rupture of life on Earth is unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself? Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence
Chapter 9 Fostering reflective dialogue on the difficult past and present of religious diversity in Europe
No full textProviding the first volume-length exploration of the role that dialogue can play in history education classrooms, this book explores the socio-cultural, psychological, and digital dimensions of dialogic practice to promote research into historical thinking, historical consciousness, and critical thinking in educational settings. This book’s novel approach is in its analysis of dialogical processes in various international and intercultural educational contexts; chapters compare Israeli and Palestinian textbooks and classroom discussion and explore teachers’ challenges to shift monologic school culture, as well as approaches to enhancing dialogic practices both in US contexts and in several EU countries. Each case study provides an insight into the nature of dialogue as both shared historical inquiry and cultural practice. How can dialogue be promoted, and through what mechanisms? In what ways can dialogue contribute to democratic societies’ thriving and dealing with and overcoming conflicts about different views on the past? Ultimately, the book looks to foster a nuanced and complex understanding of history, prompting consideration of different perspectives and a collective approach to overcoming troubled pasts and trauma. Featuring a truly international set of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in the history of education, education policy and politics, and historiography more broadly. This book was made possible with the support of the EU project www.making-histories.eu (10108606), coordinated by the first author
Einfluss einer heißen Oberfläche auf die Verbrennung eines homogen kompressionsgezündeten Gasmotors
No full textStationäre Gasmotoren erzielen als Herzstück von Blockheizkraftwerken Gesamtwirkungsgrade über 90 % und spielen damit eine wichtige Rolle bei der Energiewende. Mit Blick auf die zukünftige Verschärfung des Stickoxid-Emissionsgrenzwerts ergeben sich wirtschaftliche Nachteile beim Betrieb dieser Anlagen, wenn die konventionelle Magerverbrennung beibehalten wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde in dieser Arbeit das neuartige Hot Surface Assisted Compression Ignition (HSACI) Verfahren entwickelt und untersucht. Dabei wird mit einer Oberflächenzündung eine Flammenverbrennung eingeleitet, die das unverbrannte Gemisch verdichtet und damit zur räumlichen Selbstzündung bringt. Experimentelle Untersuchungen an einem Einzylinder-Forschungsmotor zeigen, dass der Verbrennungszeitpunkt durch die Steuerung der Oberflächentemperatur gezielt beeinflusst werden kann. Gegenüber einer reinen Selbstzündung wird zudem eine Erweiterung des Betriebsbereichs und eine Reduktion der Stickoxid-Emissionen bei gleichbleibendem und teilweise sogar erhöhtem Wirkungsgrad möglich. Numerische ein- und dreidimensionale Simulationen geben Einblick in die dominierenden Mechanismen des Brennverfahrens und weisen den Weg für weitere Optimierungen. Versuche mit Wasserstoff und Wasserstoff-Erdgas-Gemischen unterstreichen das hohe Potential der Oberflächenzündung zur sicheren Entflammung reaktionsträger Gemische, was auf eine Übertragbarkeit des Konzepts auf alternative Brenngase wie Ammoniak oder Biogas hindeutet
Chapter 3 Balancing Goals for Public Pension Plans
No full textThis book provides an in-depth explanation of public pension plan management and the decision-making processes surrounding pension policies within state and local governments in the United States. It addresses the intricate balance between securing retirement benefits for public employees and ensuring the fiscal sustainability of pension systems and their sponsoring governments. The book begins with an introduction to the purpose and significance of public pension systems, establishing a foundation for understanding key pension decisions. Using a logic model framework, the authors assess how environmental factors, stakeholders, and legal constraints shape decisions in pension management. The book identifies five core goals for public pension management — benefit sufficiency, cost affordability, funding sustainability, asset management efficiency, and governance quality — emphasizing the relationships among these objectives. Detailed chapters cover investment policies, actuarial processes, and the design of benefits and contributions, explaining the financial and actuarial bases necessary for sound pension decisions. Pension reform efforts, including the transition from defined benefit plans to defined contribution, cash-balance, and hybrid plans, are examined in depth, highlighting the reasons for reforms and analyzing their impacts on the employees and employers. The book concludes with ten takeaways for effective pension plan management and addresses emerging challenges such as fiscal pressures, inflation, and changing demographics. With practical implications grounded in research, this book serves as an essential resource for pension board members, pension system administrators, government officials, legislators and their staff, professionals, researchers, and students involved in public pension plan management
Oral history in South Africa
No full textColonial and apartheid-era historical narratives in South Africa often disregard oral testimonies, leaving significant gaps in understanding the country’s rich and complex past. This scholarly book explores the methodologies and ethics of oral history to address these omissions and to elevate oral testimonies as vital tools in historical scholarship. This book brings together ten chapters authored by leading academics and researchers. It critically examines how oral history methodologies can be contextualised within South Africa’s diverse and multifaceted society. Rather than focusing on Eurocentric approaches, it emphasises the need to rethink the ethics and practices of oral history from an Afrocentric perspective. Through its transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary lens, spanning history, indigenous knowledge studies, museum and archival studies, and folklore, this book advocates for the recognition of interviewees as knowledge holders, fostering meaningful exchanges rather than mere knowledge extraction. The authors emphasise the need to protect and expand oral history archives, ensuring the representation of marginalised voices and redressing past injustices. This volume, with original research, illuminates the transformative potential of oral history in South Africa, offering new arguments and perspectives. It aims to inspire scholars, researchers, and specialists to rethink conventional practices and to bridge the divide between written and oral histories. This is essential literature for scholars and practitioners in history, oral history, theology, museum studies, and related fields, as it reimagines the role of oral testimonies in producing inclusive and credible historical narratives
Optical Technologies for Advancing Communication, Sensing, and Computing Systems
No full textOptical technology is a cornerstone in communication, computing, and sensing. This book aims to explore the dispersion, attenuation, and nonlinear effects that occur as light signals propagate through specialized fibers, while also investigating the emerging and enabling technologies such as optical fiber sensors, quantum computing, free-space optical communication, and photonic crystal-based optical devices. The selected topics highlight optical technologies driving the next generation of communication, computing, and sensing. Featuring the latest research from leading experts in the field, this book will serve as an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and advanced students in photonics, ultrafast optics, sensing, and optical communication
Die Bedeutung der hypothetischen Einwilligung für Verhaltens- und Erfolgsunrecht
No full textIn addition to the legal interest to be protected by § 223 StGB and the legitimacy of the criminal liability of unauthorized medical action under the aspect of bodily harm, the work deals with the significance of hypothetical consent for the assessment of certain events under the aspects of conduct and success injustice. Finally, an alternative solution to the problem is proposed that is applicable (not only) to the area of medical conflict