Sustainability

Greening your home simply means finding things you can do around the house to reduce your impact on the planet.

In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.

The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth's bio-capacity to supply humanity's needs, meaning that people are living off earth's capital rather than its income.

This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change.

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

An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable benefits as improved environmental conditions or more equitable market transactions.

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the global south with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia.

The third title in the CSIRO Gardening Guide series, Sustainable Gardens by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross shows how horticulture can contribute towards a more sustainable future.

First published in 2007, this is a valuable reference book for graduate students, scientists and managers on the sustainable protection of the Malay Archipelago.

Food, water and society: what is managed by whom, and with what impacts?

City planning is the key-stone to tackle the question of climate-change and to involve adequate action.

This book includes selected papers from the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020) and consists of themes pertaining to geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering and water resources management.

This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.

This seminal volume responds to the pressing need to prepare all children and young people for a sustainable future in light of the climate crisis, providing clear and accessible information and strategies on how to fully embed sustainability into pedagogy and supporting current and future educators.

Major religious traditions have begun to reflect on sustainability concerns in their theology and practice.

Our use or rather overuse of natural resources is having an increasingly drastic and adverse effect on the environment.

For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

In this second volume, various materials such as Magnetic-based biocomposites, wheat bran/straw-based biomaterials, peel-based biomaterials, luffa Based Biomaterials, composite polymeric membranes, rice husk, hydroxyapatite etc for treating textile waste water are highlighted.

In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions-so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way.

This edited book presents the first collection of case studies and research projects on the sustainable technology of constructed wetlands for wastewater management under hot and arid climates.

This book highlights the concepts and assessment methods of Ecological Footprints.

China has made a major strategic decision to achieve carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

This book covers the analysis, modelling, planning, and design of airport landside access modes and their systems.

This book provides the recent advanced research results of environmental engineering and energy resources, covering the main multidisciplinary research on waste treatment and recycling, ecological environment protection, energy strategy management, etc.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This book is based on several decades of authors' research and practical experience in the areas of industrial and commercial buildings ventilation and energy efficiency as well as in process optimization in different types of industrial facilities.

This book offers a comprehensive approach to organizational excellence based on the author's vast experience in managing excellence at highly innovative and dynamic organizations.

Australia's Water Resources seeks to explore the circumstances underpinning the profound reorientation of attitudes and relationships to water that has taken place in Australia in recent decades.

The Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI or EROEI) is the amount of energy acquired from a particular energy source divided by the energy expended, or invested, in obtaining that energy.

Communicating Sustainability is a book of evidence-based strategies for making sustainability vivid, accessible, and comprehensible.

Industry 4.

There are multiple variants of environmental footprints such as carbon footprint, ecological footprint, water footprint, nitrogen footprint and so on.

Experiential Education in the College Context provides college and university faculty with pedagogical approaches that engage students and support high-impact learning.

This book discusses how the relationship between climate neutrality, smart eco-innovation, and environmental sustainability can be understood as well as possible with an emphasis on relevant matters and challenges of a sustainable environment.

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth.

How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry?

This book provides new knowledge, insights and experience about school-university partnerships.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2021) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight.

This book presents a detailed analysis of sustainable utilization of natural gas for low-carbon energy production.

The book provides comparative information about the materialization of the 2030 Agenda in urban policy in ten countries located in Europe and Latin America.

Improper disposal of plastics increases micro-plastic discharge and waste to the environment.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 7th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (CIGOS 2024) held on April 4-5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

This important and timely book provides an overview of climate change and highlights the importance of including climate change education in primary schools.

This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils.

This book offers up-to-date research on genome editing and omics technologies from renowned academics with established backgrounds from throughout the globe.