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Production for a green economy
In the chapter are discussed new approaches of production development in order to achieve the objectives of sustainable development and put the green economy into practice. Conventional approaches to the production must be re-oriented towards the promotion of renewable, cleaner and more effi technologies aimed at the conservation of all natural resources. This requires a new approach to the design of products and their production, and requires the inclusion of post-industrial and post-consumer residues into permanent circulation and the development of eco-innovative management patterns. In the implementation of such solutions the “cradle to cradle” approach could be useful.Wydanie współfinansowane ze środków Miasta Łodzi w ramach zadania “Współpraca z wyższymi uczelniami” – umowa 100/03/201
On the extremals of the P\'olya-Szeg\H{o} inequality
The distance of an extremal of the P\'olya-Szeg\H{o} inequality from a
translate of its symmetric decreasing rearrangement is controlled by the
measure of the set of critical points.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figure
Rearrangement inequalities for functionals with monotone integrands
The rearrangement inequalities of Hardy-Littlewood and Riesz say that certain
integrals involving products of two or three functions increase under symmetric
decreasing rearrangement. It is known that these inequalities extend to
integrands of the form F(u_1,..., u_m) where F is supermodular; in particular,
they hold when F has nonnegative mixed second derivatives. This paper concerns
the regularity assumptions on F and the equality cases. It is shown here that
extended Hardy-Littlewood and Riesz inequalities are valid for supermodular
integrands that are just Borel measurable. Under some nondegeneracy conditions,
all equality cases are equivalent to radially decreasing functions under
transformations that leave the functionals invariant (i.e., measure-preserving
maps for the Hardy-Littlewood inequality, translations for the Riesz
inequality). The proofs rely on monotone changes of variables in the spirit of
Sklar's theorem.Comment: 20 pages. Slightly re-organized, four added reference
Green Public Procurements (GPP) as an Instrument of Implementation of Sustainable Development. Analysis of the Experience of the Łódź Region Local Government
This paper discusses the situation on the Polish green public procurements (GPP) market, with special emphasis on the results of a GPPinfoNET project realised in the Łódź region. The identification of the main barriers hindering the application of GPP in the Polish practice is the departure point to formulating recommendations concerning organisational and legal changes which would make it possible to increase the share of GPP in the Polish economic practice. Implementation of green public procurement is considered as an important element of sustainable development.W artykule przedmiotem analizy jest sytuacja na polskim rynku zielonych zamówień publicznych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem efektów projektu GPPinfoNET realizowanego w regionie łódzkim. Punktem wyjścia do sformułowania rekomendacji dotyczących zmian organizacyjnych i prawnych służących popularyzacji ZZP jest identyfikacja głównych barier hamujących stosowanie takich zamówień w polskiej praktyce gospodarczej. Wdrażanie zielonych zamówień publicznych jest traktowane jako ważny element realizacji zrównoważonego rozwoju
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