Product Description: Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering basic ethic values of the society...read more

Product Description: In Italien gab es auch in der Neuzeit zahlreiche Bistümer - 137 an der Zahl - die noch Feudalherrschaften besaßen. Dementsprechend trugen sie die Titel von Herzögen, Fürsten, Markgrafen, Grafen und Baronen. Die materiell ertragreichen Herrschaftsrechte fielen zur Zeit der Revolution, spätestens bis 1810, weg, die Titel blieben erhalten, bis Pius XII...read more

Product Description: English summary: Horst Konzen will turn 70 on June 24, 2006. His colleagues, students and friends have compiled this Festschrift as a tribute to him. It documents the entire scope of the research done by Horst Konzen, who is primarily an expert in the field of labor law, although the scholarly work he has done transcends this by far...read more

Product Description: Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities. At the same time, utilities are now exposed more than ever to risk and uncertainties, which they cannot pass on to their customers through price increases as in a regulated environment...read more