Environmental management

Converting biomass to biofuels involves hydrolyzing cellulose to sugars using cost-intensive commercial enzymes - an expensive step that makes large-scale production economically non-viable.

The book is the collection of the latest research results from Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning in environmental policy and reform during the past years, mainly related to ecological compensation, the emission trading, the environment audit, carbon tax, environment friendly city, environmental health, economic policy in medical waste, scattered coal treatment subsidies, environmental policy efficiency analysis, environmental industry statistics, environmental performance evaluation, green fiscal and taxation policy, etc.

This book highlights the concept of water footprint in different industrial sectors such as leather tanning, steel, agriculture, textile and wine.

This book explores China's low-carbon consumption in the context of residential behaviour, corporate practices and policy Implication.

This book addresses carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in various industrial sectors.

This book introduces readers to the status quo and recent advances in China's low-carbon development.

This book promotes a meaningful and appropriate dialogue and cross-disciplinary partnerships on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in governance and disaster management.

This book discusses the experience of enterprise transformation and upgrading and the role of government in promoting this dramatic change in Asian emerging economies.

This book presents a selected literature review and case studies for both physical and virtual water transfer.

This book highlights the institutional, legal, and policy measures to manage water pollution in India, and discusses how effective they have been in improving the overall quality of the country's surface and groundwater resources.

This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state.

This book discusses and studies the basic course of ecological civilization construction in the 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China and summarizes the experience and lessons.

This book covers the research fields in biodiversity conservation, the Belt and Road eco-environmental cooperation, China's five-year plan for eco-environmental protection, sustainable development goals assessment, and human health loss assessment.

This book highlights the latest advances in waste management, resource recovery and resource circulation in various countries, with a special emphasis on India.

This book shows how specifically each goal of Sustainable Development Goals could be incorporated in country wise developmental programmes set to transform the world.

This book discusses various issues relating to water resources, climate change and sustainable development.

This book discusses the potential of travel behaviour modification (TBM) as a persuasive tool to promote low-carbon mobility among adolescents on Penang Island by highlighting the role of bus usage in a sustainable urban lifestyle.

This book investigates the relationships between economies of scale in food consumption and a number of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of households and household behavioural choices since food is the major share of household expenditure for poor households.

Recycling is the need of the hour and it is an inevitable destination at the end of the life of any product.

The book is a practical guide for the various steps in the post-harvest technology of frozen shrimps.

This book capitalizes on two hot topics: the Low Carbon Emission Development Strategies and climate change in Asian cities.

This book introduces readers to the press release work carried out by Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2018.

This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design.

Concerns about energy resources and the environmental impact of energy use will continue to be important globally.

This book focuses on education for environmental sustainability, in particular the area of solid waste management.

This book highlights the Eco-design or Sustainable design in textiles and fashion, aimed at reducing their environmental impact throughout their life cycle.

This book records the press release of  Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2020.

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.

This book includes selected papers from the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020) and consists of themes pertaining to structural engineering and construction technology and management.

This book uses the concept of sustainability in science to address problems afflicting the environment, and to devise measures for improving economies, societies, behaviors, and people.

This book presents revealing case studies on carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in various industrial sectors.

This book presents the 5-year monitoring of radioactive contamination in the Tokyo metropolitan area due to the Fukushima accident, covering radiation monitoring of soil, litter, river, water, seawater, aquatic sediments, fish and shellfish, and plants in urban areas.

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment.

As renewable energy sources, biofuels have tremendous potential to replace fossil fuels in future energy scenarios, offering green alternative energy sources.

This book focuses on green mine evaluation.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA)  that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or 'triple bottom line' model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

As we know, rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment.

This book introduces the press release work carried out by Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China in 2019.

The field of pore scale phenomena is now emerging as one of the frontiers of science and many engineering disciplines.

This book examines the current and future challenges facing the food and agricultural system and their implications for policymaking at the national and international level.

This book provides a comprehensive presentation on energy-efficient management in urban rail transit system via operations research and uncertain optimization methods.

This book discusses the current trends in luxury and jewelry and presents how to make these sustainable for a better future.

This book addresses the emergent need to act on reducing or getting rid of micro plastic pollution, to achieve a sustainable environment.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to microcosms (N-systems) in multiple-species testing and aquatic ecosystem risk assessment.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research and practices for adaptation to climate change in food production systems (agriculture in particular) as observed in Japan and neighboring Asian countries.

This book comprehensively covers corrosion and corrosion protection in China in the areas including infrastructure, transportation, energy, water environment, as well as manufacturing and public utilities.

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is currently a major global challenge.

This book highlights the sustainable aspects of fashion and textiles in Latin America and discusses how the manufacturing and consumption of textile products and fashion are significant sources of environmental damage.

This book highlights the current research, conceptual and practical utilization of waste in building materials.