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Factor X
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Factor X

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world. It discusses solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources, addressing decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry, academia, civil society, and the media. The book presents strategies, concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainable resource use in practice. Following on from two previous titles published on Factor X by the Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), entitled “Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use” (2013) and “Factor X: Re-source – Designing the Recycling Society” (2014), this book further inv...

Waste to Energy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Waste to Energy

Solid waste management is currently a major issue worldwide with numerous areas reaching critical levels. Many developing countries and countries in transition still miss basic waste management infrastructure and awareness. It is here that many of the solid waste management problems and challenges are currently being faced. As such, waste-to-energy (WTE) consists of a proven and continuously developing spectrum and range of technologies in a number of (mostly) developed countries. However, it’s integration in developing countries and systems in transition is often faced with scepticism and a complex set of barriers which are quite unique and differ greatly from those where WTE has been val...

Lean Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Lean Management

This book shows the basics, methods and principles of lean process design in production as well as in other areas such as development, engineering and administration. In addition, it serves as a reference work for practical use. Questions have been developed for each topic area for process analysis. These can be used for self-reflection and benchmarking. Numerous examples, a continuous fictitious industry case as well as learning objectives and exercises with solutions for each chapter supplement the explanations and enable optimal exam preparation. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Lean Management by Frank Bertagnolli, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics

This volume offers insights from political anthropology on how to analyze and how to think about contemporary areas of internationalized political phenomena in a fresh manner. By drawing on a variety of cases like policing, budgeting, the role of monetary politics in everyday life, development agencies, and international organisations it shows the promise of an “extended experience” for the study of international politics, yet without glossing over the limits of such approaches. This book is an essential contribution to the discussion about ethnography in international relations and a bridge between disciplines.

Correcting the Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Correcting the Record

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. Herbert S. Lewis recovers the reality of the first century of American anthropology as a vital scholarly discipline that rejected established ideas of race, insisted on the value of very different ways of life, and delivered irreplaceable ethnographic studies. This volume presents powerful refutations of the accumulated damaging myths about anthropology’s history.

Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview which positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance. An Africanist, Sommerfelt did research in Ruwenzori (Uganda and Belgian Congo), but also wrote about the Tallensi (Ghana) and worked for years in Salisbury (Harare) before being evicted by Ian Smith's racist regime in 1966. His contributions to political anthropology, methodology and legal anthropology have a lasting value.

Invested Narratives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Invested Narratives

German economic crises from the past two hundred years have provoked diverse responses from journalists, politicians, scholars, and fiction writers. Among their responses, storylines have developed as proposals for reducing unemployment, improving workplace conditions, and increasing profitability when stock markets tumble, accompanied by inflation, deflation, and overwhelming debt. The contributors to Invested Narratives assess German-language economic crisis narratives from the interdisciplinary perspectives of finance, economics, political science, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies. They interpret the ways German society has tried to comprehend, recover from, and avoid economic crises and in doing so widen our understanding of German economic debates and their influence on German society and the European Union.

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-31
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  • Publisher: Oxbow Books

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and...

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.

Better World
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 394

Better World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-29
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  • Publisher: Leo Klein

Ein Neues Buch das, das Leben das Aufregende Leben des Autors beschreibt und wer seine sehr Wertvollen Neuen Arbeiten, Innovationen, Technologie Illegal Weltweit vermarktet. Dazu wird der Autor Ihnen Neue Hilfe anbieten, wie Sie bald ein besseres Leben bekommen werden und diese Hilfe wie Sie diese Friedlich erreichen werden. Ein Buch das die Welt garantiert verbessert wenn viele Menschen das Buch Lesen werden. Welche Bank und welche deren Wirtschaft Unternehmen dem Autor seine Wertvollen Neuen Innovationen Illegal Verkauft und wer die Milliarden Gewinne Illegal bekommt wird im Buch beschrieben. Lesen Sie diese spannende Biografie die in der Heutigen zeit geschieht und wer alles seit Jahren mit hilft zu vertuschen das der Autor nicht zu seinem Recht kommt wird genau beschrieben. James Bond ist spannend das Buch Better World wird Sie Umhauen und Ihnen die Wahrheit dazu die Augen öffnen. Buch Better World Internationale Nummer ISBN 978-3-00-049365-2