Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I: General and Environmental Aspects" is dedicated to the basics of the engineering of polymers - always with a view to possible environmental implications. Topics include: materials, processing, designing, surfaces, the utilization phase, recycling, and depositing. Volume 12 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II: Sustainability, Product Design and Processing" highlights raw materials and renewable polymers, sustainability, additives for manufacture and processing, melt modification, biodegradation, adhesive technologies, and solar applications. All contributions were written by leading experts with substantial practical experience in their fields. They are an invaluable source of information not only for scientists, but also for environmental managers and decision makers.

Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I: General and Environmental Aspects" is dedicated to the basics of the engineering of polymers - always with a view to possible environmental implications. Topics include: materials, processing, designing, surfaces, the utilization phase, recycling, and depositing. Volume 12 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II: Sustainability, Product Design and Processing" highlights raw materials and renewable polymers, sustainability, additives for manufacture and processing, melt modification, biodegradation, adhesive technologies, and solar applications. All contributions were written by leading experts with substantial practical experience in their fields. They are an invaluable source of information not only for scientists, but also for environmental managers and decision makers.

Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I: General and Environmental Aspects" is dedicated to the basics of the engineering of polymers - always with a view to possible environmental implications. Topics include: materials, processing, designing, surfaces, the utilization phase, recycling, and depositing. Volume 12 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II: Sustainability, Product Design and Processing" highlights raw materials and renewable polymers, sustainability, additives for manufacture and processing, melt modification, biodegradation, adhesive technologies, and solar applications. All contributions were written by leading experts with substantial practical experience in their fields. They are an invaluable source of information not only for scientists, but also for environmental managers and decision makers.

Since their first industrial use polymers have gained a tremendous success. The two volumes of "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks" elaborate on both their potentials and on the impact on the environment arising from their production and applications. Volume 11 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks I: General and Environmental Aspects" is dedicated to the basics of the engineering of polymers - always with a view to possible environmental implications. Topics include: materials, processing, designing, surfaces, the utilization phase, recycling, and depositing. Volume 12 "Polymers - Opportunities and Risks II: Sustainability, Product Design and Processing" highlights raw materials and renewable polymers, sustainability, additives for manufacture and processing, melt modification, biodegradation, adhesive technologies, and solar applications. All contributions were written by leading experts with substantial practical experience in their fields. They are an invaluable source of information not only for scientists, but also for environmental managers and decision makers.

Im Jahr 1734/35 fallt das Koenigreich Neapel in die Hande der spanischen Bourbonen, die gemass dem Traktat von Wien im Mezzogiorno eine Sekundogenitur errichten mussen. Koenig Karl, der die eidgenoessischen Truppenkontingente in der spanischen Armee wahrend der suditalienischen Eroberung schatzen gelernt hat, ubertragt in der Folge zwei schweizerischen Offizieren die Aufgabe, neue Schweizer Regimenter fur die neapolitanische Krone zu formieren. Bezuglich der eidgenoessisch-neapolitanischen Kriegsdienste des 18. Jahrhunderts sind bislang kaum nennenswerte Erkenntnisse veroeffentlicht worden. Aufgrund dieses Forschungsdesiderats drangt sich eine moderne, sozialhistorisch inspirierte Grundlagenforschung auf. Die Untersuchung richtet ihr Augenmerk auf die vier Schweizer Regimenter in neapolitanischen Kriegsdiensten zwischen 1734 (Zeitpunkt der Schaffung) und 1789 (Aufloesung). Mittels quellengestutzter kritischer Analysen soll ein von der wissenschaftlichen Historiographie bislang vernachlassigter Themenbereich mit neuen Aspekten zu Organisation und Struktur der eidgenoessischen Truppen in Neapel angesprochen und zur Diskussion gestellt werden.

Die "life-cycle-analysis" mit dem Instrument der Ganzheitlichen Bilanzierung ermoglicht Unternehmen konstruktive Verbesserungen, Kosteneinsparungen und eine weitergehende Schonung der Umwelt. Namhafte Fachleute beschreiben detailliert und umfassend die Grundlagen, Methoden, (Rechner-)Werkzeuge und Bewertungskriterien der Ganzheitlichen Bilanzierung.