1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910138902603321

Titolo

Mobile work, mobile lives [[electronic resource] ] : cultural accounts of lived experiences  \ / / Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing, and Brigitte Jordan, volume editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-4443-0966-8

1-282-13932-0

9786612139321

1-4443-0967-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

NAPA bulletin ; ; 30

Classificazione

QV 020

Altri autori (Persone)

MeerwarthTracy L

GluesingJulia C

JordanBrigitte

Disciplina

331.2572

331.544

Soggetti

Flextime - Social aspects

Temporary employment - Social aspects

Telecommuting - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : tracking the context of mobile lives / Tracy L. Meerwarth, Julia C. Gluesing, and Brigitte Jordan -- Community, context, and the presentation of self in distributed workplace interaction / Michael Youngblood -- Living a distributed life : multilocality and working at a distance / Brigitte Jordan -- Occupational websites as locations for remote and mobile worker culture : an examination of temporary worker websites / Loril M. Gossett -- Identity in a virtual world : the coevolution of technology, work, and lifecycle / Julia C. Gluesing -- Remote or mobile work as an occasion for (re)structuring professional and personal identities / Perri Strawn -- Disentangling patterns of a nomadic life / Tracy L. Meerwarth -- Located mobility : living and working in multiple places / Amy Goldmacher -- Interruptions and



intertasking in distributed knowledge work / Patricia G. Lange -- Conclusion : patterns of mobile work and life / Julia C. Gluesing, Tracy L. Meerwarth, and Brigitte Jordan -- Biosketches of authors.

Sommario/riassunto

With the ever-increasing functionalities of information and communication technologies, as well as the spatial and temporal transformations brought about by shifts in global work patterns, mobile work has become more important than ever to workers and employers. The objective of this volume is to illustrate through narratives the patterns of mobility that are altering the meaning of work and how work is positioned with respect to the rest of life. The contributors to this volume are anthropologists who not only study remote, nomadic, and mobile workers but who are also remote, nomadic, and mob

2.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0234267

Autore

PHLIPS, Louis

Titolo

The economics of imperfect information / Louis Phlips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 1988

Descrizione fisica

xiv,281 p. : fig. ; 23 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784615903321

Autore

Haggar Salah el-

Titolo

Sustainable industrial design and waste management [[electronic resource] ] : cradle-to-cradle for sustainable development / / Salah M. El-Haggar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-01885-6

9786611018856

0-08-055014-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Disciplina

363.728

628.4

Soggetti

Factory and trade waste

Industrial ecology

Source reduction (Waste management)

Waste minimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-386) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the author; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 CURRENT PRACTICE AND FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Waste management; 1.3 Treatment; 1.4 Incineration; 1.5 Landfill; 1.6 Zero pollution and 7Rs rule; 1.7 Life cycle analysis and extended producer responsibility; 1.8 Cradle-to-cradle concept; Questions; CHAPTER 2 CLEANER PRODUCTION; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Promoting cleaner production; 2.3 Benefits of cleaner production; 2.4 Obstacles to cleaner production and solutions

2.5 Cleaner production techniques2.6 Cleaner production opportunity assessment; 2.7 Cleaner production case studies; Questions; CHAPTER 3 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Industrial ecology; 3.3 Industrial ecology barriers; 3.4 Eco-industrial parks; 3.5 Recycling economy/circular economy initiatives; 3.6 Eco-industrial parks case studies; Questions; CHAPTER 4



SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Sustainable development proposed framework; 4.3 Sustainable development tools, indicator, and formula

4.4 Sustainable development facilitators4.5 Environmental reform; 4.6 Environmental reform proposed structure; 4.7 Mechanisms for environmental impact assessment; 4.8 Sustainable development road map; Questions; CHAPTER 5 SUSTAINABILITY OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Transfer stations; 5.3 Recycling of waste paper; 5.4 Recycling of plastic waste; 5.5 Recycling of bones; 5.6 Recycling of glass; 5.7 Foam glass; 5.8 Recycling of aluminum and tin cans; 5.9 Recycling of textiles; 5.10 Recycling of composite packaging materials; 5.11 Recycling of laminated plastics

5.12 Recycling of food waste5.13 Rejects; Questions; CHAPTER 6 RECYCLING OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE REJECTS; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Reject technologies; 6.3 Product development from rejects; 6.4 Construction materials and their properties; 6.5 Manhole; 6.6 Breakwater; 6.7 Other products; Questions; CHAPTER 7 SUSTAINABILITY OF AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL WASTE MANAGEMENT; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Main technologies for rural communities; 7.3 Animal fodder; 7.4 Briquetting; 7.5 Biogas; 7.6 Composting; 7.7 Other applications/technologies; 7.8 Integrated complex

7.9 Agricultural and rural waste management case studiesQuestions; CHAPTER 8 SUSTAINABILITY OF CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE MANAGEMENT; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Construction waste; 8.3 Construction waste management guidelines; 8.4 Demolition waste; 8.5 Demolition waste management guidelines; 8.6 Final remarks; 8.7 Construction waste case studies; Questions; CHAPTER 9 SUSTAINABILITY OF CLINICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Methodology; 9.3 Clinical waste management; 9.4 Disinfection of clinical wastes; 9.5 Current experience of clinical wastes; 9.6 Electron beam technology

9.7 Electron beam for sterilization of clinical wastes

Sommario/riassunto

Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management was inspired by the need to have a text that enveloped awareness and solutions to the ongoing issues and concerns of waste generatedfrom industry. The development of science and technology has increased human capacityto extract resources from nature and it is only recently that industries are being held accountable for the detrimental effects the waste they produce has on the environment.  Increased governmental research, regulation and corporate accountability are digging up issues pertaining to pollution control and waste treatment a