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Die Logotherapie nach Viktor E. Frankl ist ein anthropologischer und psychotherapeutischer Ansatz, der die geistige Dimension des Menschen und dessen Sinn- und Werteorientierung in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Das Buch bietet eine fundierte und gut verständliche Einführung in die Logotherapie und zeigt die Relevanz und den Beitrag der Logotherapie für die Soziale Arbeit auf. Möglichkeiten der Anwendung logotherapeutischer Prinzipien und Methoden in der Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit werden anhand ausgewählter Beispiele anschaulich beschrieben.

In der Spendenwerbung dominieren seit einiger Zeit die Hinweise auf die »Wirksamkeit« der beworbenen Organisation und ihrer Hilfen. Übersehen wird dabei oft, dass Spender vor allem »Sinn« und »Resonanz« erfahren wollen, meint Dr. Frank Frieß, Leiter des Hochschulreferats Fundraising an der Technischen Universität München.

Those working in the food industry face an abundance of information generated by diverse institutions and individuals. Ensuring the safety of food is critically important to the public's health and a challenge for policy-makers seeking to enhance the government's role in this arena. Although the food industry has an inherent duty to make food safe, the effectiveness of what they do is highly dependent on the quality of the information they receive on potential hazards and good practices. In this context, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded a project under the auspices of the Food Safety Research Consortium to examine and make recommendations for improving the food safety information infrastructure (FSII). Through this initiative, a collection of food safety experts met for a series of workshops to discuss information needs around food safety. Key Findings: Establish a national FSII policy and program. Build a database for tracking research and data collection. Provide broader public access to journal articles and to complete data from research projects. Create a networking Web site. In this report, whose recommendations are based on those workshop discussions, the authors explore the constraints facing today's FSII. These include the diversity of the information currently available, the plethora of information sources, and the numerous agencies and actors involved in generating data.

In developing countries, the rapid proliferation of informal firms – low-technology unlicensed micro-enterprises – is having significant environmental impacts. Yet environmental management authorities typically ignore such firms. This paper estimates the annual net benefits (benefits minus costs) of controlling particulate emissions from a collection of informal brick kilns in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and from two of the city's leading formal industrial polluters. We find that the annual net benefits of controlling brick kiln emissions are substantial – in the tens of millions of dollars – and exceed those for the two formal industrial facilities by a significant margin. These results suggest that, in some cases, the conventional allocation of pollution control resources across formal and informal polluters may be suboptimal.

The goal of this book is to develop temporary light spaces that re-interpret the existing urban environment on a seasonal basis or over a cycle of several years. As a result, the city will literally appear in a new light. Strollers in the city streets will experience their familiar environment in a new way. Illuminated planes interlacing with planes made by linear fields of light beams will create immaterial material space experiences: still lifes of light within which one can move about and light choreographies that move barely noticeably, creating still lifes in motion

Reauthorization of the Superfund law continues to be a major source of controversy among political leaders and environmental activists. Some seek a major overhaul of the statute, arguing that considerable cleanup still needs to be done. Others oppose major changes, asserting that cleanup is almost complete. One of the most contentious issues in the debate is whether the taxes that once stocked the Superfund Trust Fund need to be reinstated. The answer depends in large part on how much money EPA will need to implement the Superfund program. To inform this discussion, the U.S. Congress asked Res