Sustainability

This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world.

This book presents solutions to address water security in rapidly urbanizing cities, and explores the new paradigms of water security in changing contexts.

This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging "e;Baby Boomers,"e; and climate change.

This book comprises state-of-the-art advances in energy, combustion, power, propulsion, environment, focusing on the production and utilization of fossil fuels, alternative fuels and biofuels.

In contrast to the linear "e;take-make-dispose"e; model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy.

This book discusses the concepts, methods and case studies pertaining to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based Carbon Footprint Assessment.

This book provides the latest research on net zero policies, environmental sustainability, and the practical implications for adopting sustainable technologies in the current scenario.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development explores the linkages between the objectives of liberalised international trade, protection of the environment and sustainable development.

From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia.

Based on the water footprint (WF) concept, this book reviews WF-based water stress evaluation methods at the city, provincial and river basin levels respectively.

The book discusses the process of drafting a Drinking Water Services Act for states under federal governance, presents how various provisions of the Act are identified and builds the rationale behind those provisions.

This book highlights current efforts and research (in Malaysia) on Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) approach as a core technique for sludge treatment and energy recovery.

This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California.

Oblivion or Utopia: the Prospects for Africa explains that most of the problems on the continent stem from the fact that, although the continent may be politically independent, it is not economically independent.

Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.

A food system comprises the entire range of actors and interlinked activities related to food production, processing, distribution, marketing and trade, preparation, consumption, and disposal.

Declines in the abundance of salmon in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska in the late 1990s and early 2000s created hardships for the people and communities who depend on this resource.

This book is a groundbreaking book that delves into the critical intersection of health care and sustainability.

This book discusses the mutual relationship between service and sustainability.

Today, there is much discussion about the dangers of water contamination to human health.

Food is a means of life.

This book presents the current status of CO2 utilization from fundamental studies to industrial tests.

Initially considered as a sub-class of ionic liquids, eutectic mixtures are formed by mixtures of low cost, often biodegradable Lewis or Bronsted acids and bases.

This book highlights the applications of blockchain technologies to foster sustainable development in different fields.

The SSTEW Scale helps all those working with children aged two to six to achieve their full potential and enjoy the benefits and pleasure of delivering high quality early education and care.

This book describes the development of two kinds of continuous-flow transformation using heterogeneous catalysts, and explains how they can be applied in the multistep synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries took up the difficult task of finding a common approach that would slow down the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and delay changes to the planet's climate.

This updated second edition textbook explains the different technologies of agronomy to achieve a more sustainable agriculture, for undergraduate and graduate students of agronomy.

In the vein of "e;An Inconvenient Truth,"e; a sobering assessment of our nation's energy policies and a stirring call for change.

This book is a collective effort on the part of researchers affiliated with the CERES Research School in Development Studies in the Netherlands to discuss a series of themes and concepts crucial to the overlapping fields of globalization and development research.

This book identifies, defines and explains in detail property-related environmental issues.

This edited volume discusses smart cities and smart governance within the framework of the 22nd century sustainable city.

Accelerating Sustainable Aviation Initiatives: Markets, Economics, and Social Issues examines the twin challenges of clean aviation and the industry's ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

Comprising a collection of selected research papers, this book discusses the challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This book investigates the role of land titling in delivering sustainable means of poverty alleviation in developing countries.

The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines and will provide sufficient breadth and depth of understanding in each sub-section of hydrology.

This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges.

This book is a selection of the best papers presented at the XXX National Conference of Commodity Science held in Bari, Italy on 27 to 28th October, 2022.

This book provides readers with essential knowledge enabling the successful design of today's new energy efficient HVAC systems.

This book discusses the transformation of the banking industry, particularly after a number of recent shocks: 2008 financial crisis, 2012 Euro-sovereign crisis, the pandemic COVID-19 crisis, the technological revolution, and reputational problems in banking due to climate risk and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) metrics.

This book provides a framework for integrating information management in supply chains.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

We all view the ubiquitous term 'sustainability' as a worthwhile goal.

This book reviews the manufacturing processes of different shopping bags used for grocery purposes, life cycle impacts, modelling of life cycle impacts, carbon and eco-footprints in different countries, consumption of shopping bags in different countries, consumer behaviour of shopping bags in various countries and its relation to eco-impact, assessment of functionality of shopping bags, concept and framework of eco-functional assessment of shopping bags, biodegradation of shopping bags, etc.

This book presents selected papers from the II International Conference "e;Ecosystems without Borders 2021"e;, held at Kaliningrad State Technical University in Kaliningrad, Russia on October 5-7, 2021.