1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000038437

Titolo

Zwischen Gegenreformation und Frühaufklärung: Späthumanismus, Barock : 1572-1740 / herausgegeben von Harald Steinhagen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 1985

ISBN

3-499-16252-0

Descrizione fisica

550 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Handbuch RO ; 6252

Disciplina

830.09

Soggetti

Letteratura tedesca

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020208403321

Titolo

Combustion residues : current, novel and renewable applications / / edited by Michael Cox, Henk Nugteren, Maria Janssen-Jurkovicova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

ISBN

9786612112188

9781282112186

128211218X

9780470094440

0470094443

9780470094433

0470094435

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CoxMichael <1933->

NugterenHenk

Janssen-JurkovicovaMaria

Disciplina

621.31/21320286

Soggetti

Materials science - Research

Combustion products - Research

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Combustion Residues; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 The Current and Future Nature of Combustion Ashes; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Coal: the Principal Source of Combustion Residues; 1.3 Coal Ash: the Principal Combustion Residue; 1.4 Other Forms of Combustion; 1.5 Co-combustion Ashes; 1.6 Biomass and Waste; 1.7 Other Fuel Ashes; 1.8 Gasification; 1.9 Summary; 2 Established Uses of Combustion Residues; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Disposal Approaches for Three Prominent Combustion Residues; 2.3 PFA and its Agricultural Applications; 2.4 Uses of Fly Ash in Concrete

2.5 Application of Fly Ash in Grouts2.6 Use of Fly Ash in Fill and Pavement Construction; 2.7 PFA as an Ameliorator of Liquid and Solid Toxic Wastes; 2.8 Commercial Building Products Incorporating PFA; 2.9 The Use of PFA in Ceramic Products; 3 Limitations of Combustion Ashes: 'From Threat to Profit'; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Technical Quality; 3.3 Environmental Quality; 3.4 Health and Safety; 4 Novel Products and Applications with Combustion Residues; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 New Developments in Cement and Concrete Applications; 4.3 Combustion Residues in Heavy Clayware Building Products

4.4 Zeolites4.5 Reinforcing Materials: Fibres Containing Fly Ash; 4.6 Glass Polyalkenoate Cements; 4.7 Fire-resistant Materials; 4.8 Fly Ash as a Replacement for Mineral Fillers in the Polymer Industry; 4.9 Geopolymers; 4.10 Carbon Products; 4.11 Recovery of Values from Combustion Ashes; 5 Novel Products - from Concept to Market; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Novel Products - Basic Economic Considerations; 5.3 Specifications and Standards; 5.4 Legislation and Taxes; 5.5 Customer Acceptance; 5.6 Environmental Acceptance Schemes; 5.7 Concluding Remarks; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first book on novel products derived from the new generation of combustion ashes, Combustion Residues -Sustainable Applications discusses the nature of ashes derived from coal co-combustion, biomass, and other fuels in traditional and stand-alone power plants and municipal waste incinerators. In addition, the book examines the development of novel commercial products incorporating such ashes, including the importance of technical and environmental standards, marketing strategies, and promotion.



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996691901103316

Autore

Breuer Henning

Titolo

Sustainable Innovation Cultures : 68 Practices and Methods for Gaining Competitve Edge and Impact

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

3-11-137570-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 pages)

Disciplina

338.9406

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- Overview -- Table of Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Facing the Greatest Challenge of Our Time -- Approach and Outline of this Book -- IMAGINE -- PART I FRAMEWORK / It Takes a Whole Culture -- Chapter 1 / It Takes a Whole Culture -- Preview -- How to Read This Book -- Chapter 2 / Conceptual Foundations -- 2.1 Sustainability, Innovation and Sustainable Innovation -- 2.1.1 Sustainability -- CONCEPT 1. Sustained Yield Management -- Sustainability and Sustainable Development -- Sustainability Management and System Value Creation -- CONCEPT 2. Principles for the Design and Development of Sustainable Business Models -- Sustainability Reporting: From Today's Standards to Forward-Looking Approaches -- 2.1.2 Innovation -- 2.1.3 Sustainable Innovation -- Push and Pull Driving Factors -- A Values-Based Approach to Sustainable Innovation -- Normative, strategic and operational dimensions of sustainable innovation -- CONCEPT 3. Directional Certainty through Process Design, Risk Reduction Criteria, Timing and Methodology -- Responsible Innovation Practices -- 2.1.4 Key Takeaways -- 2.2 Organisational Culture and Its Development -- 2.2.1 The Lenses of Anthropology and Social Sciences -- Four Characteristics -- Anthropology as Framing for Psychological, Sociological and Systemic Insights -- Subject-Oriented and Object-Oriented Approaches -- 'Culture is not just one aspect of the game, it is the game.' -- 2.2.2



Dimension-Based Theories -- Clan, Adhocracy, Market and Hierarchy -- Power Distribution and Cooperation Level -- Six Dimensions of National and Organisational Cultures -- Pathological, Bureaucratic and Generative Cultures -- 2.2.3 Frameworks for Cultural Development -- 2.2.4 Values, Artefacts and Practices for Cultural Development -- 2.2.5 Key Takeaways.

2.3 Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- 2.3.1 Sustainability Cultures and Transformations -- Beyond the Adoption of New Practices and Methods -- Enablers and Barriers in Sustainability Transformations -- 2.3.2 Innovation Culture -- 2.3.3 Challenges and Practices: Establishing Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- Values-based Innovation Practices and Functions -- Sustainable Innovation Practices and Methods -- Expert Insights on Values-Based Transformation Towards Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- CASE 1. Expert Insights on Four Critical Factors to Develop Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- 2.3.4 Key Takeaways -- Chapter 3 / A Framework for Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- 3.1 Establishing Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- 3.1.1 A Generative System -- Industry-Specific Organisational Values -- CASE 2. The Role of Healthcare Companies in the Global Sustainability Transformation -- Political and Management Frameworks -- CASE 3. How Companies Integrate the SDGs into their Impact Strategies -- Organisational Values Expressed by Intended Outcomes and Impact -- CASE 4. Cultural Challenges to Translating Normative Guidelines into Practices and Artefacts -- 3.1.2 A Deliberate Approach -- Establishing Espoused Values -- APPROACH 1. Guiding Questions to Formulate Guiding Principles for an Organisation -- Addressing Tensions -- Addressing Values-Action Gaps -- CONCEPT 4. The Evolution of the Change Resistance Concept -- 3.1.3 Creating Sustainable Value Repeatedly and Reliably -- CASE 5. Key Value Indicators for Gauging the Impact of Information and Communication Technology Solutions -- Maturity Levels of Values-Based Innovation Cultures -- CASE 6. Ecosia Considers Partnering with a Petrol Company -- Working Against Unintended Consequences and Potential Rebound Effects -- CONCEPT 5. How Organisational Cultures Create Unintended Consequences.

Three Components of Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- 3.1.4 Sustainable Innovation Culture at Work: The Case of Interface -- CASE 7. Interface and its Outstanding Journey Towards Sustainable Innovation Culture -- 3.2 The 3C Framework for Establishing Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- 3.3 Overarching Practices for Conceiving, Co-creating and Cultivating in Sustainable Innovation -- 3.3.1 Overarching Practices -- Resilience Development, Moderation and Knowledge Sharing -- 1. RESILIENCE DEVELOPMENT -- 2. MODERATION -- 3. KNOWLEDGE SHARING -- Responsible Innovation Dimensions and Practices of Inclusive Deliberation, Reflexivity, Anticipation and Responsiveness -- 4. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT -- 5. INCLUSIVE DELIBERATION -- 6. REFLEXIVITY -- 7. ANTICIPATION -- 8. RESPONSIVENESS -- Empowerment, Decentralisation and Ethical Leadership -- 9. EMPOWERMENT -- 10. DECENTRALISATION -- 11. SYMBOLIC ETHICAL LEADERSHIP -- Experimentation, Gamification and Human-Systems Collaboration -- 12. EXPERIMENTATION -- 13. GAMIFICATION -- 14. HUMAN-SYSTEMS COLLABORATION -- 3.3.2 Digital Artefacts and Artificial Intelligence -- IN SUM -- PART II PRACTICES AND METHODS / How to Create Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- Practices and Methods Overview -- Conceiving -- Co-creating -- Cultivating -- Chapter 4 / Conceiving Innovation Cultures -- 4.1 Ethnographic Inquiry to Understand Values, Tensions and Gaps -- 4.1.1 Challenges in Conceiving Cultures -- 4.1.2 Ethnography as a Practice-Based Approach to Conceiving Values -- APPROACH 2.



Substantive, Procedural and Practice-Based Approaches to Analysing Sustainability Values -- 4.1.3 Ethnographic Approaches -- APPROACH 3. Key Features of the Ethnographic Approach -- 4.1.4 Rapid Ethnography -- CASE 8. Shortcut to Understanding and Reviving Brand Values in Mid-Sized Companies -- 4.1.5 Ethnographic Insights.

CASE 9. Insights into Sustainable Innovation Challenges and Practices from a Comparative European Study -- 1. SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION LITERACY: -- 2. VERTICAL INTEGRATION: -- 3. HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION: -- 4. ECOSYSTEM ENGAGEMENT: -- 5. PRACTICES AND METHODS: -- 6. HIDDEN TREASURES: -- 4.2 How to Understand One's Own Culture -- 4.2.1 Framing Culture -- 4.2.2 Accessing Culture -- APPROACH 4. Guidelines and Techniques for Ethnographic Observers -- 4.2.3 Investigating Culture -- APPROACH 5. Techniques to Streamline Field Interviews and Observations -- 4.2.4 Interpreting Culture -- STORYTELLING SESSION -- PATTERN RECOGNITION -- INSIGHT SYNTHESIS -- ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- 4.3 Practices and Methods: Conceiving One's Own Innovation Culture -- 4.3.1 Practices and Methods: Contextual Inquiry -- 4.3.2 Practices and Methods: Reviewing Practices and Challenges -- 4.3.3 Practices and Methods: Revisiting Values and Integrating Stakeholders -- IN SUM -- Chapter 5 / Co-creating Targeted Interventions -- 5.1 Co-creating for Impact -- CASE 10. Pelliconi's Co creating Approach to Sustainable Innovation -- 5.2 Preparing, Conducting and Bundling Co-creative Activities -- 5.2.1 Setting the Right Targets -- 5.2.2 Engaging the Right Participants -- 5.2.3 Setting Up a Safe Space and Empowering Participants -- 5.2.4 Facilitation Using Storyboards -- STORYBOARDING -- -APPROACH 6. Key Elements of a Storyboard for Co creation Workshops -- CO-CREATIVE ENVISIONING AND THE CASE OF MICHELIN -- CASE 11. Envisioning New Mobility Business at Michelin -- PHASE 1: PRIORITISATION -- PHASE 2: ENVISIONING -- PHASE 3: IMPLICATIONS -- 5.2.5 Bundling and Scaling Co-creating Activities -- -CASE 12. Employee-Driven Co creating to Foster Sustainable Innovation at Interface and Xerox -- DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATIONS -- 5.3 Practices and Methods: Co-creating.

5.3.1 Practices and Methods: Co-creating with Internal Stakeholders -- 5.3.2 Practices and Methods: Co-creating with External Stakeholders -- 5.3.3 Practices and Methods: Sustainability Foresight -- IN SUM -- Chapter 6 / Cultivating Sustainable Innovation -- 6.1 Cultivation -- 6.1.1 Origins of the Term Cultivation -- 6.1.2 Cultivating of Sustainable Innovation in an Organisation -- CASE 13. German Railways' Cultivation of Data-Driven Sustainability Management -- 6.2 Cultivating Values, Practices and Artefacts for Sustainable Innovation -- 6.2.1 Mainstreaming Values -- CULTIVATING IMPLICIT VALUES -- CULTIVATING GLOBAL VALUES -- CULTIVATING SPECIFIC VALUES -- CULTIVATING ACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF VALUES -- CULTIVATING PROACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF VALUES -- 'CASE 14. How Ecosia s Continuous Refinement of Values Informs Strategic Decisions -- 6.2.2 Establishing New Practices -- ENSURING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY, EXPERIMENTATION AND DECENTRALISATION AS SUPPORTIVE MEASURES -- 'CASE 15. Informal Collaboration Practices to Reconcile Tensions in Alberta s Healthcare System -- ASSESSMENT AND REFINEMENT -- SCALING AND SUSTAINING -- 6.2.3 Mediating Artefacts -- ARTEFACTS FOR GOVERNANCE -- ARTEFACTS FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES -- UPDATES AND FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS -- 6.2.4 Cultiv ating Outcomes -- 6.3 Practices and Methods: Cultivating Sustainable Innovation -- 6.3.1 Practices and Methods: Promoting Sustainability Literacy and Capacity Building -- 6.3.2 Practices and Methods: Promoting Social Interactions -- 6.3.3 Practices and Methods: Ensuring Positive Impact -- IN SUM --



PART III CASES / European Companies on their Journeys to Establish Sustainable Innovation Cultures -- Chapter 7 / From Safety to Sustainability - The Case of an Inspection Company in Germany -- 7.1 From the Adoption of New Values to the Formation of New Ecosystems.

CONCEPT 6. Technical Inspection as a Values-Based Business.

Sommario/riassunto

How can companies and nonprofit organizations turn sustainability strategies into real-world practice?How can they innovate to gain a competitive edge while contributing to sustainable and regenerative development?And where should you as an innovation, sustainability or human resource manager begin?.