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Technologies and Eco-innovation towards Sustainability I
This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design. It covers the latest topics in the field: e.g. global eco-design management, big data in eco-design, social perspectives in eco-design; as well as emphasizing the developments in emerging economies such as Asian countries. Eco-design of products and product-related services are indispensable to realize the circular economy and to increase resource efficiencies of our society. Eco-design practices are necessary both in developed countries and developing countries. The book chapters are contributed by the worldwide authors, especially authors from East Asian countries, European countries, and Southeast Asian countries, and contains selected presentations at the EcoDesign2017 symposium (10th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing). The first volume highlights products and services, the chapters include the product life cycle design and business strategy, technologies for the future and sustainability, as well as social perspectives in eco-design.
Recycling Strategy and Challenges Associated with Waste Management Towards Sustaining the World
Recycling is an act of collecting and processing items that would otherwise be discarded as waste in order to create a new product. Recycled material is being used in an increasing number of today’s products. Waste management is primarily concerned with a wide range of wastes, including industrial, biological, household, municipal, organic, biomedical, and radioactive wastes. Human activity, such as the mining and processing of basic resources, generates waste and poses health problems that can emerge both indirectly and directly. Waste mismanagement is a serious problem on an individual and a governmental level. Nowadays, the waste disposal business is struggling to adapt to globalized co...
Responsible Trading in Raw Materials
As environmental social governance (ESG) increasingly shapes the academic discourse in the European Union, Solveig Gasche provides a conceptual analysis of responsible trading in raw materials. Because the governance concept of responsible trading considers human rights and environmental standards, she defines the decisive determinants of trade in raw materials by considering the main historic, economic and regulative approaches. Illustrating and analysing the international and the German approach to implementing good guidance, strategies and governance, she further deals with the issues of conflict minerals and compliance, supply chain due diligence, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics. Corporate liability is given particular emphasis, taking into account options of contract design, transparency, and reporting as well as aspects of due diligence.
Conference for Wind Power Drives 2017
The conference proceedings of the 3rd Conference for Wind Power Drives (CWD) contains the collected contributions of the congress which took place on the 7th and 8th of March, 2017. The latest developments and innovations are presented in 40 articles covering the following topics: Plain bearings in WTG gearboxes; Wind turbine gearboxes; Gearboxes - Planetary stage; Materials in WTG; Reliability; Condition monidtoring systems; Bearings and WEC; Electric systems; Blade and main bearings; Modelling and simulation; Wind 4.0. The CWD has been held every two years since 2013 and acts as an interdisciplinary platform for knowledge and technology transfer between developers, researchers and operators. Furthermore, the conference promotes networking between industry and university in the field of wind turbine drive trains. The conference is supported by the Association for Power Transmission Engineering in VDMA (German Engineering Federation) and the Research Association for Drive Technology (FVA).
Smart Green World?
In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. At the same time, the current economic model and consumerist lifestyle needs to be radically transformed if society is to overcome the challenges humanity is facing on a finite planet. Can the much-discussed disruption potential of digitalization be harnessed for this purpose? Smart Green World? provides guiding principles for a sustainable digital society and develops numerous hands-on proposals for how digitalization can be shaped to become a driving force for soc...
Dienstleistungen für die energieeffiziente Stadt
Die Förderung und Umsetzung von Energieeffizienz und Klimaschutz zählen zu den vorrangigen Aufgaben von Städten und Gemeinden aller Größenklassen. Die Ergebnisse des Wettbewerbs Energieeffiziente Stadt des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung belegen: Innovative Dienstleistungen leisten hierzu einen bedeutenden Beitrag. Der Sammelband präsentiert praxisnah und umfassend aktuelle Umsetzungskonzepte aus 15 Städten und gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Erkenntnisse der Dienstleistungsforschung mit Relevanz für die Energieeffiziente Stadt. Die Beiträge anerkannter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler richten sich an alle, die sich dieses interdisziplinäre Forschungs- und Handlungsfeld praxisnah und umfassend erschließen möchten.
Minerals Yearbook
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Durable Economies
Leaking water infrastructures, heritage tourism, investments in artworks, failing electronics: Durability lies at the heart of a wide range of seemingly unrelated phenomena. In today's economies, which rest on ever-larger stocks of infrastructures, buildings, machinery and household goods, durable things are both a hugely significant source of wealth and a constant source of struggle. The contributors argue that a deeper engagement with durability is essential for reaching an understanding of how economies work; and for envisaging alternative economies built on principles of environmental stewardship and social justice. Placing durability at the core of economic analysis, this volume explores the work and tensions involved in the production and valuation of durability to outline a new agenda for more sustainable economies.
Ökobilanzierung 2009
Als entscheidungsunterstützendes Werkzeug im Sinn nachhaltiger Entwicklung ist Ökobilanzierung einerseits standardisiert, unterliegt andererseits einer steten Weiterentwicklung. Der Tagungsband zur fünften Ökobilanz-Werkstatt 2009 beinhaltet Beiträge und Diskussionen u.a. zur Allokationsfrage, Product Carbon Footprint, Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang nachwachsender Rohstoffe wie Nutzungskonkurrenzen und Flächeninanspruchnahme - um nur einige wenige Stichworte zu nennen.
Zukünftiges Abfallaufkommen von Photovoltaikmodulen. Materialfluss- und Reifegradanalyse für das Recycling
Photovoltaik (PV) ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil zur Erreichung der Energiewende in Deutschland, was sich in dem hohen Umfang der jährlich neu installierten PV-Leistung widerspiegelt. Aufgrund der begrenzten Lebensdauer ist diese Entwicklung mit einem entsprechend hohen PV-Abfallaufkommen in der Zukunft verbunden. Um hierfür ein effektives Recyclingsystem aufzubauen, sind Informationen über die zeitliche Verteilung, den Umfang und die Materialzusammensetzung des Abfallaufkommens nötig. Mit Hilfe einer Materialflussanalyse in Verbindung mit einer Lebensdauerberechnung werden diese Informationen für Deutschland in dem Zeitraum zwischen 2000 und 2050 ermittelt. Ebenso relevant für die Verwertung der PV-Module sind die vorhandenen Recyclingtechnologien und deren technische Reifegrade, welche mittels der Technology Readiness Level Methodik bestimmt werden.
