Do neutrons publish? A neutron publication survey 2005-2015

Publication in scientific journals is the main product of scientific research. The amount of papers published, their placement in high impact journals, and their citations are used as a measure of the productivity of individual scientists, institutes or fields of science. To give a profound basis on the publication record and the quality of the publication efforts in neutron scattering, a survey has been done following the approach to use bibliographic databases. Questions to be addressed by this survey are: Is the productivity of research with neutrons changing over the years? Which is the geographic distribution in this field of research? Which ones are leading facilities? Is the quality of publications changing? The main results found are presented

Waste in the City: Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Agglomerations

Worldwide cities are rapidly expanding, creating visible environmental and social challenges. The generation of waste is one of the central concerns in urban agglomerations, particularly in the global South, where inadequacies, absences and weaknesses shape the local waste management system. Uneven geographic development has created obvious spaces of exclusion and neglect. In response, informal and organized waste pickers engage in selective waste collection and recycling, serving their community and the environment. These contributions are still mostly unrecognized and unaccounted for. This chapter begins with emphasizing the challenges of urban growth, consumption, poverty and waste. In the global South, every day millions of informal waste pickers reclaim recyclables from household waste to earn their living. In doing so they make an important contribution to reducing the carbon footprint of cities, recovering resources, improving environmental conditions and health creating jobs and income among the poor, particularly in low-income residential areas. This chapter discusses the organization of these initiatives into networks and examines the challenges and benefits of such practices that promote grassroots resilience and contribute to reducing both the adverse impacts of cities on climate and environmental change (UN sustainable development target # 11.6) as well as urban poverty (Goal # 8)

Surfactant mixtures at the oil–water interface

NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, VOL 398, (2013) DOI 10.1016/j.jcis.2013.01.06

Wenn Menschen noch ein Herz in der Brust haben : Bernhard Grzimeks Afrika-Arbeit aus medienhistorischer Sicht

Rezension zu: Franziska Torma : Eine Naturschutzkampagne in der Ära Adenauer. Bernhard Grzimeks Afrikafilme in den Medien der 50er Jahre. Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, München 2004, ISBN 3-89975-034-9, 213 Seiten, 36,90 Euro

Obligatorischer Technologietransfer im Tiefseebergbau nach der neuen Seerechtskonvention: Eine Wirkungsanalyse

Ob der in langjährigen Verhandlungen ausgearbeitete Entwurf einer neuen Seerechtskonvention international gültiges Recht wird, ist noch eine offene Frage. Viele Staaten verweigern ihre Unterschrift. Die Gründe für die Abstinenz sind von Land zu Land unterschiedlich. Eine Gruppe von Industrieländern ist sich jedoch in ihrer Begründung für die Ablehnung des Vertragswerkes weitgehend einig: Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und westeuropäische Industrieländer, darunter die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, sind mit dem vorgesehenen Nutzungsregime für den Tiefseebergbau nicht einverstanden

Waste Pickers at the Heart of the Circular Economy: A Perspective of Inclusive Recycling from the Global South

While the circular economy (CE) is discussed in the global North as an innovative approach to waste management, the idea of circular resource flows has long been central in the work of waste pickers all over the world. They work independently or in groups, collecting, classifying, and reinserting a wide range of discarded materials into the economy. These grassroots initiatives have accumulated valuable knowledge and offer innovative perspectives on handling waste, informed and framed by their everyday experiences. Yet their efforts are hardly recognized as contributions to the circular economy, nor are most of the services they provide remunerated. Despite their precarious working and living conditions, waste pickers provide a specialized workforce, proven to be efficient in the reclamation of discarded and wasted materials, in reverse logistics such as extended producer responsibility (EPR) and service contracts involving municipalities and industries. With some exceptions, the organization of human labour that underpins the circular flows of matter and energy is an absent analytical dimension in most of the literature in this field. The dominant CE concept focuses primarily on environmental and ecological sustainability outcomes but lacks attention to social sustainability and livelihood aspects. Our paper bridges this gap in the literature by discussing results of qualitative research conducted in the metropolitan regions of São Paulo, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2017 and 2018, illustrating how waste picker organizations provide selective waste collection services to communities and businesses and thus contribute to resource recovery and social inclusion, at the heart of the CE.Fil: Gutberlet, Jutta. University of Victoria; CanadáFil: Carenzo, Sebastian. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin