Articles
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Industrial ecology and ecological economics
The editors of this journal initiated a discussion on the relationship between industrial ecology and ecological economics, to which the current article is intended to contribute. It consists of overviews of ecological economics and industrial ecology, followed by an analysis of the links between them. Judging from their theoretical background and historical development, the extent of cross ...
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Collaboration among industry, civil society, and government for sustainability: a framework for identifying opportunities
Progress toward sustainability will require innovation and collaboration among business, government and civil society. But progress in recent years has been marked by trial and error, scepticism and confusion, and poor coordination across sectors. This paper proposes a framework for identifying and understanding opportunities for more effective collaboration. The framework distinguishes between ...
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Membrane-bound pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent dehydrogenase in gluconobacter oxydans m5, responsible for production of 6-(2-hydroxyethyl) amino-6-deoxy-l-sorbose
A membrane-bound protein purified from Gluconobacter oxydans M5 was confirmed to be a pyrroloquinoline quinone-dependent D-sorbitol dehydrogenase. Gene disruption and complementation experiments demonstrated that this enzyme is responsible for the oxidation of 1-(2-hydroxyethyl) amino-1-deoxy-D-sorbitol (1NSL) to 6-(2-hydroxyethyl) amino-6-deoxy-L-sorbose (6NSE), which is the precursor of an ...
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Halliburton - Landmark Group
Halliburton's Landmark Group and Pavilion Technologies have teamed together to produce a real time simulation model of an oilfield, just as Pavilion has long made available for process plants. Landmark will embed Pavilion’s key modeling, control, and optimization technology engine into its DecisionSpace Production solution. The combined technologies will offer operators a dynamic integrated model ...
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Buddhist economics ancient teachings revisited
The views and values of Buddhist economics play a growing role in the present discourse on 'green' economics. These ancient teachings represent an alternative paradigm and holistic concept of economic action opposed to the reductionist mainstream economics. In this paper, the main content and assumptions of Buddhist economics as laid down in the canonical scriptures are introduced and contrasted ...
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ChemManager Article on Degussa using TechniData EPM
ChemManager Article on Degussa using TechniData EPM. Degussa Ensures Environmental ...
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The professional development of planners, developers and managers of crisis team exercises
In order to be prepared for managing crises and disasters, a series of exercises need to be executed regularly. Municipalities and safety regions in the Netherlands, however, often do not sufficiently recognise this necessity. At the same time, they do not always have available expertise to plan for optimal exercises and other arrangements for professional development. In order to improve this ...
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Towards a research framework for critical infrastructure interdependencies
Critical Infrastructure (CI) interdependencies have important consequences for crisis management, particularly when the crises are cross-border. However, research into CI interdependencies is still immature. The nature of large-scale, cross-border crises in these systems of systems is not easily understood. We have identified several aspects that need to be investigated to gain a more complete ...
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Tesco asset management (case study)
Executive Summary Tesco has seen numerous benefits of the Verisae platform over the past three years. The metrics listed are only a small portion of all products and services Tesco leverages across the full Verisae platform and across all Tesco plc international business operations. Reduction in duplicate service calls & manual processing ($300,000 annual savings) Identified ...
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Chewing on the Grizzly Man: Getting to the meat of the matter
At the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 director Werner Herzog released Grizzly Man. The film explores over 100 hours of video footage left by self-described eco-warrior Timothy Treadwell. Treadwell spent 13 summers living with grizzly bears at the Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaska Peninsula in an effort to protect the bears living there from human harm. I argue that the dissonance ...
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Non-proliferation international legal instruments on the 50th anniversary of the IAEA
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a threat for the peace and security of all humanity. From Hiroshima in 1945, vertical and horizontal proliferation has increased considerably. Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons production technology and knowledge to nations that do not already have such capabilities. From its inception, 50 years ago, the International Atomic ...
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Nuclear Iran facing the USA
Iran's efforts to endow nuclear capacities date back to the Shah's era, and were at that time developed through a close collaboration with the USA. Those plans were presented as civil programmes, but comprised, beyond any doubt, some military potentialities. As a first step, the 1979 Islamic Revolution completely interrupted any activity in this field. But more recently, uranium enrichment ...
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Why do minorities launch businesses in Britain?
Based on a review of the extant literature, this paper explores why ethnic minority people start-up small businesses in Britain. Evaluating the motives of ethnic minority population in Britain and internationally, the paper examines common patterns of 'pull' and 'push' factors along with certain theories that respectively encourage and force minority ethnic workers into self-employment, ...
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Innovative contracting in infrastructure design and maintenance
This paper describes the results of research into the contract arrangements and design processes for contractors in the road infrastructure industry. The changing institutional environment has led the industry to believe that more opportunities can be realised to the benefit of society (lower cost, higher quality, more efficient design and design process) when contractors are allowed more 'design ...
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Urban transport and land-use policies in East and West: learning from experience?
This paper considers the implications of changing land use and transport patterns in cities in Central and Eastern Europe. It reviews experience elsewhere, primarily in Western Europe, where a spiral of increasing mobility and dispersal is widely acknowledged to be environmentally, socially and economically unsustainable. Policies being adopted at different scales in attempts to modify these ...
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The process and mechanism of urban environmental change: an evolutionary view
This paper discusses how an evolutionary viewpoint can contribute to the understanding of the processes and mechanisms of urban environmental change. There are four major components in the urban environmental evolution concept: (a) cities can be viewed as complex systems that are subject to constant change, which constitutes a dynamic evolutionary process; (b) urban environmental profiles of ...
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Book Review: Methodologies, Models and Instruments for Rural and Urban Land Management
Methodologies, Models and Instruments for Rural and Urban Land Management, by Mark Deakin, Robert Dixon-Gough and Reinfield Mansberger. Ashgate, 2004. 172pp. ISBN 0-7546-3415-9Keywords: book ...
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Book Review: Economics of Rural Land Use Change by Kathleen P. Bell, Kevin J. Boyle and Jonathan Rubin
Economics of Rural Land Use Change, by Kathleen P. Bell, Kevin J. Boyle and Jonathan Rubin. Aldershot (UK), Burlington (USA), Ashgate, 2006. 272pp. ISBN 0-7546-0983-9Keywords: book ...
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Book Review: The Economics of Agri-environmental Policy by Sandra S. Batie and Richard D. Horan (Editors)
The Economics of Agri-environmental Policy, [edited] by Sandra S. Batie and Richard D. Horan. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004. 2 vols. ISBN 0-7546-2324-6Keywords: book ...
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Book Review: The State and Global Ecological Crisis by John Barry and Robyn Eckersley (Editors)
The State and Global Ecological Crisis, edited by John Barry and Robyn Eckersley. MIT Press, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52435-3Keywords: book ...
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