Acta Innovations

17-23

Authors: Monika Staniszewska

The article presents the NIMBY syndrome as a type of a local conflict, taking into account the stage of development of the phenomenon, its levels and methods of mitigation. NIMBY syndrome is described as a conflict affecting the lives of local communities, referring to classical concept of conflict. The article covers also an analysis of investments in renewable energy sources as potentially threatened by NIMBY syndrome.

35-47

Authors: Magdalena Urbaniak, Anna Wyrwicka, Edyta Kiedrzyńska, Sylwia Staniak, Anna Gałązka, Wojciech Tołoczko, Grzegorz Siebielec

Increase of sewage sludge production in Poland required undertaking specific methods of their utilization and disposal. The reason is that sewage sludge despite organic matter, and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus that are useful for agriculture use, contains also heavy metals, toxic organic pollutant such as persistent organic pollutant, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, inorganic compounds such as silicates and aluminates, and pathogenic and other microbial pollutants. This implicates problems with the further use of such contaminated sludge as a fertilizer in the agriculture. Considering above, the general aim of this paper is to review the possibilities and restrictions of municipal sewage sludge use as soil and plant fertilizer. In particular, the effect of municipal sewage sludge application on the soil organic matter restitution and preservation and crop yield were investigated; and in the case of contaminated sewage sludge overview of the main methods of their treatment prior to introduction into the environment.

54-60

Authors: Katarzyna Caban-Piaskowska, Magdalena Zalewska-Turzyńska

Many production companies existing on Polish market – not only in the textile industry – relies on a linear structure. The thesis formulated in this article is that in many of them the matrix structure can be introduced. That will improve functioning of the company. In an attempt to justify the thesis case study method was used, which is illustrative here. Consequently, this article became the theoretical and empirical work.