Social Enterprise Evaluation : Implications for Tourism Development

The evaluation of social enterprise projects has focused mainly on devising effective performance measurement methods and processes to justify the investment of resources and time committed to such activities. With increasing demands for accountability, effectiveness, evidence of return on investment and value-added results, evaluation activities have been driven by imperatives of objectivity in assessments and the development of tools that monetize the social outcomes and impacts of social enterprise projects. These traditional approaches to evaluation have also been widely adapted in tourism based social enterprises that seek to attain goals of poverty alleviation, empowerment of local communities, and improved livelihoods for those marginalized from mainstream tourism economic activities. This chapter argues that traditional approaches to evaluation may be limited in supporting social entrepreneurship projects with development objectives of empowerment and societal change. It is proposed that social enterprise projects involving community participation may be better positioned to achieve their developmental objectives by incorporating more of the principles of Participatory Evaluation (PE) and Empowerment Evaluation (EE) in the quest to harness the economic prowess of tourism for human development

Minimierung von gasfoermigen und fluessigen Emissionen bei der Kompostierung organischer Abfallstoffe durch prozesstechnische Massnahmen Abschlussbericht

The composting of separately collected organic wastes through intensive rotting gives rise to organic (VOC) as well as inorganic emissions into the air and water which necessitate an involved aftertreatment of effluents and waste air. Reducing the source of these emissions would relieve the environment of air pollutants. The purpose of the present laboratory and real-scale technical studies on the minimisation potential of such processes was to create a basis for assessing this issue from the viewpoints of science, business practice, environmental engineering and economics.Die Kompostierung getrennt erfasster organischer Abfaelle verursacht in der Intensivrotte prozessbedingte Emissionen organischer (VOC) und anorganischer Stoffe auf dem Wasser- und Luftpfad, die eine aufwendige technische Nachbehandlung von Abwaessern und Abluft erzwingen. Eine Verminderung der Quellstaerke dieser Stoffstroeme soll eine Umweltentlastung von luftgetragenen Schadstoffen bewirken. Verfahrenstechnische Untersuchungen sollen die Minderungspotentiale im Labor- und in der Realtechnik quantitativ erfassen und die Basis fuer eine wissenschaftliche, betriebspraktische, umwelttechnische und oekonomische Beurteilung liefern. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F02B131 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDeutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrueck (Germany)DEGerman

Untersuchung des Anwendungspotentials von Wasserstoffperoxid bei der biotechnologischen in-situ-Sanierung von kontaminierten Boeden (Moeglichkeiten, Grenzen, Folgen) Abschlussbericht

With 28 refs., 11 tabs., 34 figs.Available from TIB Hannover: FR 6628 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman