Filters
Results 1 - 10 of 348
Results 1 - 10 of 348.
Search took: 0.02 seconds
Sort by: date | relevance |
Van Halen, C.J.G.
Nederlandse onderneming voor energie en milieu Novem, Utrecht (Netherlands); K and V Organisatie Adviesbureau, Arnhem (Netherlands); Hescom Consultancy, Huizen (Netherlands)1998
Nederlandse onderneming voor energie en milieu Novem, Utrecht (Netherlands); K and V Organisatie Adviesbureau, Arnhem (Netherlands); Hescom Consultancy, Huizen (Netherlands)1998
AbstractAbstract
[en] It appears that there is a need for a community of interests in the field of bio-energy to solve numerous problems and to answer many questions with respect to the development of businesses that are active in the field of bio-energy. The title study was carried out in the third and fourth quarter of 1997 by means of surveys and depth interviews among representatives of bio-energy businesses, interest groups and research institutes. The majority of the respondents supports the foundation of the Platform Bio-Energy and suggests many different activities
Original Title
Draagvlakonderzoek platform bio-energie. Bundeling van krachten voor het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven van bio-energie
Primary Subject
Source
Feb 1998; 61 p; PROJECT NOVEM 355397/0060; Available from MHP Management and Secretary Services, Postbus 127, 3950 AC Maarn (Netherlands); The project on the title subject has been carried out within the framework of the Energy Production from Waste and Biomass (EWAB) programme of the Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment (Novem)
Record Type
Report
Report Number
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
AbstractAbstract
[en] An overview is given of a recent study on how the global energy sector might be financed in the period to 2020. Topics covered include the general trends in the energy sector, lessons learned from various regional activities and defining precisely the problems. It is concluded that the institutional framework is key to being able to deliver the resources required. (UK)
Original Title
Future financing of the global energy sector
Primary Subject
Source
WEC study financing the global energy sector - the task ahead; Bangkok (Thailand); 14 Nov 1997; CONF-9711139--
Record Type
Journal Article
Literature Type
Conference
Journal
World Energy Council Journal; CODEN JECOEF; (Dec issue); p. 6-8
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
Van Mierlo, B.
IVAM Environmental Research, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)1997
IVAM Environmental Research, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)1997
AbstractAbstract
[en] The experiences of parties involved in the title projects are reported, focusing on the project management and its impact on further introduction of solar cells in the house construction sector. 18 refs
Original Title
De totstandkoming van twee grote pilotprojecten met zonnecellen in nieuwbouwwijken. Een vergelijking tussen Amsterdam en Amersfoort
Primary Subject
Source
Oct 1997; 84 p; Available from IVAM Environmental Research, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 18180, 1001 ZB Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Record Type
Report
Report Number
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
AbstractAbstract
No abstract available
Primary Subject
Source
Congress on climate change: Global risks, challenges and decisions; Copenhagen (Denmark); 10-12 Mar 2009; Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/36/362002; Abstract only; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Record Type
Journal Article
Literature Type
Conference
Journal
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES); ISSN 1755-1315;
; v. 6(36); [1 p.]

Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
AbstractAbstract
[en] Organizational culture has a powerful influence on overall corporate performance. The ability to sustain superior results in ensuring the public's health and safety is predicated on an organization's deeply embedded values and behavioral norms and how these affect the ability to change and seek continuous improvement. The nuclear industry is developing increased recognition of the relationship of culture to nuclear safety performance as a critical element of corporate strategy. This paper describes a self-assessment methodology designed to characterize and improve the nuclear safety culture, including processes for addressing employee concerns. This methodology has been successfully applied on more than 30 occasions in the last several years, resulting in measurable improvements in safety performance and quality and employee motivation, productivity, and morale. Benefits and lessons learned are also presented
Primary Subject
Source
Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the European Nuclear Society (ENS); Washington, DC (United States); 10-14 Nov 1996; CONF-961103--
Record Type
Journal Article
Literature Type
Conference
Journal
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
AbstractAbstract
[en] The NAFTA debate included assertions that were used as arguments against trade and investment liberalization. (1) Trade liberalization increases production sensitivity to environmental restrictions ('environmental dumping'?). (2) Investment liberalization, leading to multinational firms, similarly increases the production and welfare response to costly environmental restrictions. I find that: (1) Trade liberalization increases production sensitivity to costly environmental restrictions, but arguments against liberal trade on welfare grounds do not follow. (2) Multinationals do not increase the production-reallocation effect caused by environmental restrictions or regulations. In addition, I find a great difference between restrictions that fall on fixed costs and restrictions that fall on marginal costs
Primary Subject
Record Type
Journal Article
Journal
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
Daly, D.J.; Erickson, T.A.; Groenewold, G.H.
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks, ND (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)1996
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks, ND (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)1996
AbstractAbstract
[en] The task of restoring nuclear defense complex sites under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Program presents an unprecedented challenge to the environmental restoration community. Effective and efficient cleanup requires the timely development or modification of novel cleanup technologies applicable to radioactive wastes. Fostering the commercialization of these innovative technologies is the mission of EM-50, the EM Program Office of Science and Technology. However, efforts are often arrested at the open-quotes valley of death,close quotes the general term for barriers to demonstration, commercialization, and deployment. The Energy ampersand Environmental Research Center (EERC), a not-for-profit, contract-supported organization focused on research, development, demonstration, and commercialization (RDD ampersand C) of energy and environmental technologies, is in the second year of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) designed to deliver EM technologies into the commercial marketplace through a unique combination of technical support, real-world demonstration, and brokering. This paper profiles this novel approach, termed open-quotes Dynamic Partnership,close quotes and reviews the application of this concept to the ongoing commercialization and deployment of four innovative cleanup technologies. 2 tabs
Primary Subject
Secondary Subject
Source
1996; 7 p; SPECTRUM '96: international conference on nuclear and hazardous waste management; Seattle, WA (United States); 18-23 Aug 1996; CONF-960804--60; CONTRACT FC21-94MC31388; Also available from OSTI as DE97052714; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
Record Type
Report
Literature Type
Conference
Report Number
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
AbstractAbstract
[en] The process of institutional and technical integration for projects like the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project (YMP) is not defined by organizational charts or interface documents. It is a progressive interplay of communication among a wide variety of groups which often do not understand each other. Scientists and engineers find it difficult to explain complex technical relationships and analyses to legislators, lawyers or regulatory executives in a way which will allow understanding of the general principles, without complete technical immersion. The institutional groups on the other hand find it difficult to convey to the technical fraternity, their need for simple examples or models in order to base strategy and decision-making on a commonly understandable, yet technically sound foundation. This session will look at three views of the process: (1) what the institutions need to know, (2) what the technical people want to tell, and (3) what works and what does not
Primary Subject
Source
Anon; 811 p; 1995; p. 721-722; American Nuclear Society, Inc.; American Society of Civil Engineers; La Grange Park, IL (United States); 6. annual international conference on high level radioactive waste management; Las Vegas, NV (United States); 30 Apr - 5 May 1995; American Society of Civil Engineers, 345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017-2398 (United States)
Record Type
Book
Literature Type
Conference
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
Ling, Erik
Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (Sweden). Faculty of Forestry1999
Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (Sweden). Faculty of Forestry1999
AbstractAbstract
[en] The thesis deals with aspects of the competitiveness of bioenergy. The central aim is to develop a number of concepts that enables an extended analysis. The thesis is composed of four studies. In study 1 and 2 the emphasis is put on two institutional frameworks within the forest company, i.e. the framework around the forest fuel operations and the framework around the industrial timber operations. Depending on which of the two institutional frameworks that makes up the basis for the understanding of forest fuel operations, the forest fuel operations will be given different roles and different priorities. Different goals and the process of integrating the forest fuel operations into the forest company will therefore be carried out with different means, different feelings and different resources. Study 3 examines the conceptions that the actors of the energy system uphold. The study presents the concept of logic, which is an institutionalised conception of the competitiveness of bioenergy. Logics can be seen as the dominating conceptions within the energy system and are decisive in determining the factors and parameters that state the competitiveness of different forms of energy. Study 4 argues that the strategical work concerning the competitiveness of bioenergy in the long-run to a great extent is about understanding, shaping and utilising the conceptions that affect the bioenergy system. The study problematises strategies that are used to develop bioenergy by introducing the uncertainty of the future into the analysis. The uncertainty of the future is captured in different scenarios
Original Title
Bioenergins nuvarande och framtida konkurrenskraft
Primary Subject
Source
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae. Silvestria, 114; 1999; 34 p; Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences; Uppsala (Sweden); ISBN 91-576-5648-7;
; ISSN 1401-6230;
; 49 refs; Thesis (SkogD)


Record Type
Book
Literature Type
Thesis/Dissertation
Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
AbstractAbstract
[en] This article explores the international dimensions of multinationals' corporate political activities, focusing on an international issue - climate change - being implemented differently in a range of countries. Analyzing data from Financial Times Global 500 firms, it examines the influence on types and process of multinationals' political strategies, reckoning with institutional contexts and issue saliency. Findings show that the type of political activities can be characterized as an information strategy to influence policy makers toward market-based solutions, not so much withholding action on emission reduction. Moreover, multinationals pursue self-regulation, targeting a broad range of political actors. The process of political strategy is mostly one of collective action. International differences particularly surface in the type of political actors aimed at, with U.S. and Australian firms focusing more on non-government actors (voluntary programs) than European and Japanese firms. Influencing home-country (not host-country) governments is the main component of international political strategy on climate change
Primary Subject
Source
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650307301383; Sage Publications. All rights reserved
Record Type
Journal Article
Journal
Business and Society; ISSN 0007-6503;
; v. 46(2); p. 201-228

Country of publication
Reference NumberReference Number
INIS VolumeINIS Volume
INIS IssueINIS Issue
1 | 2 | 3 | Next |