Sustainability

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning.

Doing good is no longer a luxury or a 'nice to have', it's a necessity.

This book highlights the vital role of vegetation in terrestrial surface systems, emphasizing its importance in regulating climate change, acting as a carbon sink, and maintaining the surface energy balance by absorbing CO2 from human activities.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam - countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict.

This book analyses the war against drugs, violence in streets, schools and families, and mining conflicts in Latin America.

This textbook provides an excellent resource for engineering and science students to develop basic, intermediate and advanced level skills in hydraulics, hydrology and environmental engineering.

This edited book is a compilation of information on existing frontier technologies in agriculture, such as driving modernized crop improvement programs via digitalization, mechanization and automation, artificial intelligence, speed breeding.

This book introduces advanced or emerging technologies for conversion of wastes into a variety of high-value chemicals and materials.

Quality of life (QOL) research in tourism has gained much momentum over the last two decades.

This volume describes risk management practices in the construction industry in selected countries, with an emphasis on developing countries and how these countries can learn from the practices in more developed ones.

Seaports, as part of urban centers, play a major role in the cultural, social and economic life of the cities in which they are located, and through the links they provide to the outside world.

This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment.

This book mainly reviews the progress, effectiveness, and transformation mode of China's current practice of "e;Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets"e; Theory (abbreviated as the "e;Two Mountain Theory"e;).

In recent years' research on business and sustainability, particular attention is being given to the motivations driving business managers to incorporate social and environmental strategies into their day-to-day business activities.

Tobias Brandt outlines how information technology (IT) can be used tointegrate sustainable energy technologies into existing infrastructures.

This book introduces the readers to possible aspects of the rainwater harvesting system against urbanization to plan, design, and implement.

Several textbooks and edited volumes are currently available on general soil fertility but to date none have been dedicated to the study of "e;Sustainable Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Soil.

This book examines the socio-economic impacts on the indigenous populations and local communities who depend on the Amazon for their livelihood, culture, and heritage.

The agri-food industry creates a vast amount of waste each year.

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

Diverse Pedagogies of Place presents eight original place-responsive pedagogies that address a question of paramount importance in today's world: how do we educate the next generation of students to confront the challenges of global climate change and the on-going degradation of natural environments?

Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, sustainability has emerged as an over-arching policy goal in the OECD Secretariat and in its Member countries.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

The role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations is increasingly attracting attention.

Sustainability is a concept that unifies the environment, economy, and society, and has spread as a key concept in enterprise management.

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario.

In this first volume, various materials such as chitosan, lignin-based biomaterials, cellulosic based bio materials, carbon materials, Polysaccharide-composites materials, Aromatic-Based Synthetic Macromolecules, Agricultural wastes, etc for treating textile waste water are highlighted.

This volume explores the discourse of disaster and women in the existing social settings and state disaster-related affairs in coastal Bangladesh.

This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS) as applied to sustainability.

This book provides a collection of insightful conceptual and empirical works that situate transport and mobility challenges in the unique context of individual countries and cities while highlighting commonalities across the African continent.

This volume focuses on recent advances in the planning, design, construction and management of new and existing roads with a particular focus on safety, sustainability and resilience.

Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development?

Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leadership in implementing SDGs, and SDGs in service delivery and local government.

The new 'mobilities turn' has become a powerful perspective in social theory.

Every year a huge amount of organic solid waste is generated globally.

This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions.

This book provides a clear picture of how computational processes are gradually permeating and innovating the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction sector, contributing to sustainability and aesthetic evolution.

The book brings together implementation studies from the Asia Pacific countries in the context of the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges.

This book introduces the notion of "e;educational ecology"e; as a necessary and promising pedagogic principle for the teaching of Anglophone literatures and cultures in a time of climate change.

This Springer Brief presents a study that aims to identify the demand for cooking fuel at household level under different socio-economic conditions in rural India, with the goal of offering recommendations to reformulate and redesign energy policy.

This volume presents recent biotechnological advances in the application of extremophiles in sustainable agricultural production, plant health and soil remediation.

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes.

One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process.

A sustainable European energy system, mitigating climate change and solving a number of other key environmental problems, will require massive reliance on renewable energy sources combined with a sharp increase in energy productivity.

Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development.