scholarly journals Environmental electrochemistry – importance and fields of application

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Perica Paunović
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Hydrogen Economy ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Pollution Detection ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Environmental Electrochemistry

The main goal of this paper is to present environmental electrochemistry as a very important field of environmental engineering which deals with protection and remediation of the Earth’s resources. The existing Earth’s environmental status as affected by a number of anthropogenic deteriorations is presented. Environmental electrochemistry has great potential to contribute to i) pollution detection, ii) remediation of polluted air, water and soils, iii) recycling of metals (saving of material resources) and alternative sources of energy (hydrogen economy).

Cowboys or Mavericks? The Normative Agency of NGO Mediators

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Julia Palmiano Federer
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Political Leverage

This chapter is concerned with the normative agency of NGO mediators. If NGO mediators do not have the political leverage, formal mandates, and material resources of state or United Nations mediators, under what conditions can they promote certain norms to negotiating parties? To address this question, the chapter examines the promotion of norms by NGO mediators in Myanmar, a context where informal and discreet mediation is preferred. It argues that three main characteristics of NGO mediators provide alternative sources of normative agency: their informality and political flexibility; their moral authority; and their production of knowledge as part of an epistemic community on mediation. It then assesses the advantages and limitations of these forms of normative agency vis-à-vis other mediation actors.

scholarly journals An Environmental Engineering Approach to Green Chemistry-Catalysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.Inci Isli
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Chemistry ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Resource Protection ◽  
The World ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Catalytic Applications ◽  
Production Conditions

21st century is the time to evaluate the “total quality” in terms of the environment, energy and resources of the world. All the nations have to unite in resource protection, depollution, reuse and recycling concepts. In order to adopt sustainable development, man has to try the way to find out processes and products that maximize economic and environmental benefits and social responsibility. Catalysis is an economically and ecologically important field in the production integrated environmental protection. There are numerous examples of catalytic applications in various industries for a cleaner production and non-stop research is going on in the field of green chemistry. In this study, the developments in the green chemistry and thereby catalysis technology have been reviewed. Also, an evaluation of the clean production conditions in Turkiye is tried.

Small Group Research in Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gil Rodríguez ◽  
Carlos María Alcover de la Hera
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Scientific Results

After a long period of scarce resources and a long delay in new scientific results suffered as a consequence of recent Spanish history, research concerning groups has experienced a rapid development over the last 15 years of the 20th century—the result of the late but then clear institutionalization of psychology into university structure. Although most research has been carried out at the very heart of social psychology and along the traditional lines of the field, a significant growth in the study of groups and work teams in organizational contexts can now be highlighted, coinciding with the tendency detected internationally during the last years. Beyond the normalization of group research in Spain, it is necessary to point out its excessive dependency in both theory and methodology on models and tools elaborated throughout North America and Europe. The present review closes with the proposal of creating a European formative curriculum for group psychologists in order to unify and promote research within this active and important field of psychology.

A Review : Sustainability from Waste

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-155
Author(s):  
Kriti Jain ◽  
Chirag Shah
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Waste Segregation ◽  
Treatment And Disposal ◽  
Engineered Landfill

The increasing volume and complexity of waste associated with the modern economy as due to the ranging population, is posing a serious risk to ecosystems and human health. Every year, an estimated 11.2 billion tonnes of solid waste is collected worldwide and decay of the organic proportion of solid waste is contributing about 5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions (UNEP). Poor waste management - ranging from non-existing collection systems to ineffective disposal causes air pollution, water and soil contamination. Open and unsanitary landfills contribute to contamination of drinking water and can cause infection and transmit diseases. The dispersal of debris pollutes ecosystems and dangerous substances from waste or garbage puts a strain on the health of urban dwellers and the environment. India, being second most populated country of the world that too with the lesser land area comparatively, faces major environmental challenges associated with waste generation and inadequate waste collection, transport, treatment and disposal. Population explosion, coupled with improved life style of people, results in increased generation of solid wastes in urban as well as rural areas of the country. The challenges and barriers are significant, but so are the opportunities. A priority is to move from reliance on waste dumps that offer no environmental protection, to waste management systems that retain useful resources within the economy [2]. Waste segregation at source and use of specialized waste processing facilities to separate recyclable materials has a key role. Disposal of residual waste after extraction of material resources needs engineered landfill sites and/or investment in waste-to-energy facilities. This study focusses on the minimization of the waste and gives the brief about the various initiations for proper waste management system. Hence moving towards the alternatives is the way to deal with these basic problems. This paper outlines various advances in the area of waste management. It focuses on current practices related to waste management initiatives taken by India. The purpose of this article put a light on various initiatives in the country and locates the scope for improvement in the management of waste which will also clean up the unemployment.

The Political and Aesthetic Power of the Everyday in Beckett's Happy Days

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-66
Author(s):  
Julie Bates
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Last Man ◽  
Second World

Happy Days is contemporaneous with a number of seminal contributions to the concept of the everyday in postwar France. This essay suggests that the increasingly constrained verbal and physical routines performed by its protagonist Winnie constitute a portrait of the everyday, and goes on to trace the affinities between Beckett's portrait and several formulations of the concept, with particular emphasis on the pronounced gendering of the everyday in many of these theories. The essay suggests the aerial bombings of the Second World War and methods of torture during the Algerian War as potential influences for Beckett's play, and draws a comparison with Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel The Wall, which reimagines the Romantic myth of The Last Man as The Last Woman. It is significant, however, that the cataclysmic event that precedes the events of Happy Days remains unnamed. This lack of specificity, I suggest, is constitutive of the menace of the play, and has ensured that the political as well as aesthetic power of Happy Days has not dated. Indeed, the everyday of its sentinel figure posted in a blighted landscape continues to articulate the fears of audiences, for whom the play may resonate today as a staging of twenty-first century anxiety about environmental crisis. The essay concludes that in Happy Days we encounter an isolated female protagonist who contrives from scant material resources and habitual bodily rhythms a shelter within a hostile environment, who generates, in other words, an everyday despite the shattering of the social and temporal framework that conventionally underpin its formation. Beckett's play in this way demonstrates the political as well as aesthetic power of the everyday in a time of crisis.

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