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Umweltverträglichkeit und Abfallwirtschaft - zwei Reizwörter, die bei Planung und Durchführung von Zulassungsverfahren für Abfallverbrennungsanlagen, Deponien und anderen Abfallwirtschaftseinrichtungen immer wieder zu kontroversen Diskussionen führen. Angesichts der Novellierung der EG-UVP-Richtlinie und des Fristengefüges der TA Siedlungsabfall dürfte sich diese Diskussion in Zukunft verstärkt fortsetzen. Der Leser wird systematisch in die rechtlichen Grundlagen und die UVP bei der Planung von Abfallwirtschaftsanlagen eingeführt. Dabei wird ein weiter Bogen gespannt, der von Entwicklungen auf europäischer Ebene, dem Stand der bundesdeutschen Gesetze und Regelwerke, der Genehmigungspraxis bis hin zur Erstellung von Fachgutachten für ein Zulassungsverfahren reicht

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- 1 The Genesis, Essence and Development of a Smart City -- 1.1 Creation and Assumptions of the Smart City Concept -- 1.2 Sustainability as a Priority for Smart City Development -- 1.3 Evaluation and Contemporary Challenges of a Smart City -- 2 Quality of Life and its Determinants -- 2.1 The Essence and Measurement of the Quality of Life -- 2.2 Determinants of the Quality of Life in Urban Communities -- 2.3 Problems and Challenges of Improving the Quality of Life in Contemporary Cities -- 3 Smart City Governance -- 3.1 The Role of City Authorities in Creating Smart Cities -- 3.2 The Smart City Concept in the Strategies of the Cities of Central and Eastern Europe -- 4 Characteristic of Central and Eastern Europe Cities as Research Sites -- 4.1 Determinants of Smart Cities Development in Central and Eastern Europe -- 4.2 Characteristic of Polish Cities in the Context of Development Determinants -- 5 Research Intentions and Assumptions -- 5.1 Research Intentions, Problems and Sample Selection -- 5.2 Research Stages and Methods -- 6 Economic and Financial Determinants of the Quality of Life in Central and Eastern Europe Cities -- 6.1 The Economics of Smart Cities in Central and Eastern Europe -- 6.2 Economy and Finance in Polish Smart Cities - Statistical Perspective -- 6.3 Economic and Financial Conditions in Polish Cities - Survey Perspective -- 7 Technological and Infrastructure Determinants of the Quality of Life in Central and Eastern Europe Cities -- 7.1 Technological and Infrastructure Problems and Challenges in Selected Cities of Central and Eastern Europe -- 7.2 Living and Transport Infrastructure in Smart City - Statistical Perspective -- 7.3 Infrastructural and Innovative Conditions in Polish Cities - Survey Perspective.

This book is designed as a gentle introduction to the fascinating field of choice modeling and its practical implementation using the R language. Discrete choice analysis is a family of methods useful to study individual decision-making. With strong theoretical foundations in consumer behavior, discrete choice models are used in the analysis of health policy, transportation systems, marketing, economics, public policy, political science, urban planning, and criminology, to mention just a few fields of application. The book does not assume prior knowledge of discrete choice analysis or R, but instead strives to introduce both in an intuitive way, starting from simple concepts and progressing to more sophisticated ideas. Loaded with a wealth of examples and code, the book covers the fundamentals of data and analysis in a progressive way. Readers begin with simple data operations and the underlying theory of choice analysis and conclude by working with sophisticated models including latent class logit models, mixed logit models, and ordinal logit models with taste heterogeneity. Data visualization is emphasized to explore both the input data as well as the results of models. This book should be of interest to graduate students, faculty, and researchers conducting empirical work using individual level choice data who are approaching the field of discrete choice analysis for the first time. In addition, it should interest more advanced modelers wishing to learn about the potential of R for discrete choice analysis. By embedding the treatment of choice modeling within the R ecosystem, readers benefit from learning about the larger R family of packages for data exploration, analysis, and visualization.

""In February 1913 young firebrand activist "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones defied convention and the doubts of better-known suffragists such as Alice Paul, Jane Addams, and Carrie Chapman Catt to muster an unprecedented equal rights army. Jones and "Colonel" Ida Craft marched 250 miles at the head of their all-volunteer platoon, advancing from New York City to Washington, DC in the dead of winter, in what was believed to be the longest dedicated women's rights march in American history. Along the way their ragtag band of protestors overcame violence, intimidation, and bigotry, their every step documented by journalist-embeds who followed the self-styled army down far-flung rural roads and into busy urban centers bristling with admiration and enmity. At march's end in Washington, more than 100,000 spectators cheered and jeered Rosalie's army in a reception said to rival a president's inauguration. This first-ever book-length biography details Jones's indomitable and original brand of boots-on-the-ground activism, from the 1913 March on Washington that brought her international fame to later-life campaigns for progressive reform in the American West and on her native Long Island. Consistently at odds with conservatives and conformists, the fiercely independent Jones was a prototypical social justice warrior, one who never stopped marching to her own drummer. Long after retiring her equal rights army, Jones advocated nonviolence and fair trade, authored a book on economics and international peace, and ran for Congress, earning a law degree, a PhD, and a lifelong reputation as a tireless defender of the dispossessed"-Provided by publisher"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- THE POLITICAL HORIZON -- Germany is not an island -- Dread of reality -- Rationalism and Romanticism -- The deceptive peace, 1871-1914 -- Greatness of the age -- WORLD WARS AND WORLD POWERS -- The age of world wars -- Between past and future forms of power, Metternich -- The first world war threatened from 1878 -- 1918 decided nothing -- End of " Europe," -- Decline of the dignity of the State from the Congress of Vienna -- Democratic nationalism -- Economics mightier than politics: germ of the economic crisis -- Transformation of armies and strategic ideas -- Navies and colonies -- Economic warfare -- New powers -- Russia once more Asiatic -- Japan -- The United States and revolution -- England -- France -- Standing out of world politics does not protect against their consequences, -- THE WHITE WORLD-REVOLUTION -- The " revolution from below," -- Age of the Gracchi in Rome -- Not economic, but urban: dissolution of society -- Society as order of rank -- Differences, not contrasts -- Underworld of great cities: " noble " and " vulgar," -- Goal of the Revolution: the levelling of society. Democracy = Bolshevism -- Property, luxury, wealth -- Class war beginsabout 1770 -- In England -- The united movement from Liberalism to Bolshevism -- Mobilization of the" working class 99 from 1840. " Dictatorship of the proletariat," -- Professional agitators -- Bolshevism not Russian -- Tolerance of Liberal society -- Cult ofthe " worker," -- Type of the demagogue -- Church andclass war, Communism and religion -- Economic egoism asthe moral of class war -- Age of revolutionary theory, 1750-1850. National economy from 1770 onward belongs to it -- Negative ideal of class war: from 1770, destruction ofthe order of rank -- from 1840, of the economic order

Preliminary Material /Jan Abbink and Mirjam de Bruijn -- Introduction /Jan Abbink -- Partenariat et interdisciplinarité: /Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Mahaman Tidjani Alou -- Historical and Cultural Aspects / Aspects Historiques et Culturelles Cultural models of power in Africa /Walter van Beek -- Human rights in the traditional legal system of the Nkoya people of Zambia /Wim M.J. van Binsbergen -- 'Sons of the soil': /Peter Geschiere -- How can Africa develop? Reflections on theories, concepts and realities /Patrick Chabal -- Land Issues and Economics / Problemes Fonciers et L'economie L'économie sociale et solidaire pour stimuler le développement ascendant et endogène /Abdou Salam Fall -- Land conflicts in Senegal revisited: /Mayke Kaag , Yaram Gaye and Marieke Kruis -- 'More punitive penalties should be given to urban farmers': /Romborah R. Simiyu and Dick Foeken -- Settling border conflicts in Africa peacefully: /Piet Konings -- Politics and Constitutional Law / Politique et Droit Constitutionnel Democracy deferred: /Jan Abbink -- La production d'un nouveau constitutionnalisme en Afrique : /Babacar Kanté -- Le juge constitutionnel et la construction de l'Etat de droit au Sénégal /Fatima Diallo -- Sur les traces du droit vivant dans le labyrinthe du droit foncier et des pratiques locales au Mali /Moussa Djiré -- The Challenges of Law and Conflict / Les Défis de Droit Face au Conflits Effectuating normative change in customary legal systems: /Janine Ubink -- Decentralization and the articulation of local and regional politics in Central Chad /Han van Dijk -- Conflict mobility and the search for peace in Africa /Mirjam de Bruijn and Egosha E. Osaghae -- Appendix: Bibliography of prof. dr Gerti Hesseling /Jan Abbink and Mirjam de Bruijn -- List of authors /Jan Abbink and Mirjam de Bruijn.

This book explores a range of biohealth and biosecurity threats, places them in context, and offers responses and solutions from global and local, networked and pyramidal, as well as specialized and interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically covering bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, pandemic disease preparedness and remediation, agroterroism, food safety, and environmental issues, the contributors demonstrate that to counter terrorism of any kind, a global, networked, and multidisciplinary approach is essential. To be successful in biosecurity, this book argues it is necessary to extend partnerships, cooperation, and co-ordination between public health, clinical medicine, private business, law enforcement and other agencies locally, nationally and internationally. Internationally, a clear understanding is needed of what has happened in past epidemics and what was accomplished in past bioprograms (in Britain, South Africa, Russia, for example). This book also assesses how, with the right technology and motivation, both a state and a non-state actor could initiate an extremely credible biothreat to security at both local and national levels. This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and practitioners of security studies, public health, public policy and IR in general. Peter Katona is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Infectious Diseases. He is co-founder of Biological Threat Mitigation, a bioterror consulting firm. John P. Sullivan is a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. He is also a researcher focusing on terrorism, conflict disaster, intelligence studies, and urban operations. He is co-founder of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group. Michael D. Intriligator is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Contributors -- Part I Some Statements of Theory -- 1. Two Decades of a New Paradigm -- 2. Three Styles in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behavior -- Part II Mating -- 3. Polygyny, Family Structure, and Child Mortality: A Prospective Study among the Dogon of Mali -- 4. Paternal Investment and Hunter-Gatherer Divorce Rates -- 5. Fertility, Offspring Quality, and Wealth in Datoga Pastoralists: Testing Evolutionary Models of Intersexual Selection -- 6. Manipulating Kinship Rules: A Form of Male Yanomamö Reproductive Competition -- 7. Physical Attractiveness, Race, and Somatic Prejudice in Bahia, Brazil -- Part III Parenting -- 8. Parental Investment Strategies among Aka Foragers, Ngandu Farmers, and Euro-American Urban-Industrialists -- 9. Parenting Other Men's Children: Costs, Benefits, and Consequences -- 10. Female-Biased Parental Investment and Growth Performance among the Mukogodo -- 11. Why Do the Yomut Raise More Sons than Daughters? -- 12. The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution -- Part IV The Demographic Transition -- 13. An Adaptive Model of Human Reproductive Rate Where Wealth Is Inherited: Why People Have Small Families -- 14. The Evolutionary Economics and Psychology of the Demographic Transition to Low Fertility -- 15. Sex, Wealth, and Fertility: Old Rules, New Environments -- 16. To Marry Again or Not: A Dynamic Model for Demographic Transition -- Part V Sociality -- 17. Effects of Illness and Injury on Foraging among the Yora and Shiwiar: Pathology Risk as Adaptive Problem -- 18. Reciprocal Altruism in Yamomamö Food Exchange -- 19. Reciprocal Altruism and Warfare: A Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon -- 20. The Emergence and Stability of Cooperative Fishing on Ifaluk Atoll -- Part VI Conclusion

The environment, as modified and created by people, is largely about the use of information, its generation and exchange. How do recent innovations in the technologies of information management and communication affect our use of space and place, and the way we perceive and think about our surroundings? This volume provides an international, exploratory forum for the complex phenomenon of new information and communication technology as it permeates and transforms our physical world, and our relation to it: the architectural definition of our surrounding, geographical space, urban form and immediate habitats. This book is a reader, an attempt at registering disciplinary changes in context, at tracing subtexts for which most mainstream disciplines have no established language. The project is to give voice to an emerging meta-discipline that has its logic across the specializations. A wide range of professionals and academics report findings, views and ideas. Together, they describe the architecture of a postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating the proliferating technology applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of physical space in architecture, economics, geography, history, planning, social sciences, transport, visual art - but also in the newer domains that have joined this spectrum through the very nature of their impacts: information technology and telecommunications. The space navigated in this volume is vast, both in physical terms and in its virtual and analogous form. It ranges from the space that immediately encompasses, or is simulated to encompass, the human body - as in buildings and virtual tectonics - to that of towns and regions. We stay clear of molecular-scale space, and of dimensions that are larger than earth

"Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property. Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. She analyzes the use of ideas of culture and creativity to fuel economic development, how workers experienced life in the Triangle, and the role of the federal government in bringing the modern technology industry into being. As Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill were transformed by high-tech development, the old South gave way to a distinctly new one, which welded the intellectual power of universities to a vision of the suburban good life. Cummings pinpoints how the story of the Research Triangle sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation, as exemplified by the tech industry, is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of gentrification and inequality. Placing the knowledge economy in a broader cultural and intellectual context, Brain Magnet offers vital insight into how tech-driven development occurs and the people and places left in its wake"--

Chapter 1. Gender and Migration: an historical and inclusive perspective (Beatrice Zucca Michelletto) -- Part 1: Institutions, law and identity -- Chapter 2. Tracing migration within urban spaces: women's mobility and identification practices in Venice (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Teresa Bernardi) -- Chapter 3. Filling the gap, making a profession. Midwives, state control and medical care in mid-nineteenth century Wallachia (Nicoleta Roman) -- Chapter 4. Foreign nannies and maids. A historical perspective on female immigration and domestic work in Italy (1960-1970) (Alessandra Gissi) -- Part 2: Labour and household economy -- Chapter 5. Skills, training and kinship networks: women as economic migrants in London's livery companies, c. 1600-1800 (Sarah Birt) -- Chapter 6. Women labour migration and serfdom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Mateusz Wyzga) -- Chapter 7. Staying or leaving: a female seasonal labour market in early modern Spain (1640-1690) (Gabriel Jover-Avellà, Joana Maria Pujades-Mora) -- Chapter 8. Words at Work. Words on the Move. Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practice (1570-1620) (Veronika Čapská) -- Chapter 9. Migration, Marriage and Integration: Town Court Records and Imprints of Women Artisan Migrants in Sweden c. 1590‒1640 (Maija Ojala-Fullwood) -- Chapter 10. Migration and the household economy of the poor in Catalonia, c. 1762-1803 (Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller, Julie Marfany, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora) -- Chapter 11. French migrant women as educators in Napoleonic Northern Italy (1804-1814) (Elisa Baccini) -- Chapter 12. Transnational Migration in Wallachia during the 1830s. A Difficult Road from Broader Themes to Micro-History (Bogdan Mateescu) -- Part 3: Social networks: kinship and community ties -- Chapter 13. Family, care and migration. Gendered paths from the Mediterranean mountains to Northern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (Manuela Martini) -- Chapter 14. Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective (Michalis Bardanis) -- Chapter 15."Women Were Always There…": Caribbean Immigrant Women, Mutual Aid Societies, and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century (Tyesha Maddox) -- Chapter 16. Conclusion. Towards a multifactorial approach to migration studies (Beatrice Zucca Micheletto).

A look at local efforts to improve job training.

Passer de la dépendance à l'autodéveloppement, tel est le défi qu'entend relever le Nicaragua. Pour ce faire, le nouvel État nicaraguayen entreprit en 1979 la transformation de ses structures sociales et économiques. Défi au développement régional analyse les nouvelles formes d'exploitation et de propriété mises en place dans un effort pour changer le découpage du territoire et pour solutionner les inégalités régionales.

Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living. Yet no work has systematically explored AmI and the IoT as advances in science and technology (ST) and sociotechnical visions in light of their nature, underpinning, and practices along with their implications for individual and social wellbeing and for environmental health. AmI and the IoT raise new sets of questions: In what way can we conceptualize such technologies? How can we evaluate their benefits and risks? How should science-based technology and society's politics relate? Are science-based technology and society converging in new ways? It is with such questions that this book is concerned. Positioned within the research field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), which encourages analyses whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this book amalgamates an investigation of AmI and the IoT technologies based on a unique approach to cross-disciplinary integration; their ethical, social, cultural, political, and environmental effects; and a philosophical analysis and evaluation of the implications of such effects.An interdisciplinary approach is indeed necessary to understand the complex issue of scientific and technological innovations that ST are not the only driving forces of the modern, high-tech society, as well as to respond holistically, knowledgeably, reflectively, and critically to the most pressing issues and significant challenges of the modern world.This book is the first systematic study on how AmI and the IoT applications of scientific discovery link up with other developments in the spheres of the European society, including culture, politics, policy, ethics and ecological philosophy. It situates AmI and the IoT developments and innovations as modernist science-based technology enterprises in a volatile and tense relationship with an inherently contingent, heterogeneous, fractured, conflictual, plural, and reflexive postmodern social world.The issue's topicality results in a book of interest to a wide readership in science, industry, politics, and policymaking, as well as of recommendation to anyone interested in learning the sociology, philosophy, and history of AmI and the IoT technologies, or to those who would like to better understand some of the ethical, environmental, social, cultural, and political dilemmas to what has been labeled the technologies of the 21st century. Simon E. Bibri is a PhD Candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. He has a true passion for academic and lifelong learning and a natural thirst for knowledge. Having above all been intrigued by the relationship between scientific knowledge, technological systems, and society, he has wittingly and voluntarily chosen to pursue an unusual academic journey by embarking on studying a diverse range of subject areas - at the interaction of Science, Technology, and Society. His intellectual pursuits and endeavors have resulted, hitherto, in an educational background encompassing knowledge from, and meta-knowledge about, different academic disciplines. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering with a major in ICT strategy, a research-based Master of Science in computer science with a focus on Ambient Intelligence and ICT for sustainability, a Master of Science in computer science with a major in informatics, a Master of Science in entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on new venture creation, a Master of Science in strategic leadership towards sustainability, a Master of Science in sustainable urban planning and development, a Master of Social Science with a major in business administration (MBA), a Master of Arts in communication and media for social change and a postgraduate degree in management and economics. In addition, he has a number of certificates, including innovation science, economics of innovation, teaching for sustainability, corporate entrepreneurship, project management, and policy in the European Union. He has received his Master's degrees and certificates from different universities in Sweden, namely Lund University, West University, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Malmö University, and Halmstad University.Before starting his Master studies' endeavor, Bibri worked as an ICT strategist. In 2004, he founded a small business and consulting firm where he served as a sustainability and green ICT strategist and consultant. Over the last few years, he has been involved in a number of research and consulting projects pertaining to the IoT, green ICT strategy, strategic sustainability innovations, circular business model innovation, clean and energy efficiency technology, sustainable urban planning, and sustainable urban models (eco-city, smart city, and compact city). Since his graduation in June 2014, he has been working as a freelance consultant in his areas of expertise and a research associate, giving lectures on specialized topics, and writing his second book.Bibri has a genuine interest in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. In light of his varied academic background, his research interests include AmI, the IoT, social shaping of science-based technology, philosophy and sociology of scientific knowledge, sustainability transitions and innovations, urban sustainability, eco-city and smart city, governance of sociotechnical changes in technological innovation systems, green and knowledge-intensive innovation, clean and energy efficiency technology, green and circular economy, and ST and innovation policy.

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects' remarkably varied lives and experiences